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Buy or read?

Here's the Library Journal's Most Borrowed list:
Fiction top five:

1. The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-50420-9. $24.95.
   
2. 3rd Degree. James Patterson & Andrew Gross. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-60357-0. $26.95.
   
3. The Amateur Marriage. Anne Tyler. Knopf. ISBN 1-4000-4207-0. $24.95.
   
4. The Big Bad Wolf. James Patterson. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-60290-6. $27.95.
   
5. Nighttime Is My Time. Mary Higgins Clark. S. & S. ISBN 0-7432-0607-X. $25.95.

Non-fiction top five:

1. The South Beach Diet. Arthur Agatston, M.D. Rodale. ISBN 1-57954-646-3. $24.95.
   
2. Against All Enemies. Richard A. Clarke. Free Pr: S. & S. ISBN 0-7432-6024-4. $27.
   
3. Plan of Attack. Bob Woodward. S. & S. ISBN 0-7432-5547-X. $28.
   
4. Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Lynne Truss. Gotham. ISBN 1-59240-087-6. $17.50.
   
5. Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush. John W. Dean. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-00023-X. $22.95.

Here's the NYT Bestsellers list:
Fiction top five:

1. SONG OF SUSANNAH, by Stephen King
   
2. THE DA VINCI CODE, by Dan Brown
   
3. THE RULE OF FOUR, by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
   
4. THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN, by Mitch Albom
   
5. ANGELS & DEMONS, by Dan Brown

Non-fiction top five:

1. DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM, by David Sedaris
   
2. EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES, by Lynne Truss
   
3. BIG RUSS AND ME, by Tim Russert
   
4. FATHER JOE, by Tony Hendra
   
5. PLAN OF ATTACK, by Bob Woodward

I don't have a point here; it just seems interesting. A spokesperson from Library Journal was on NPR's Talk of the Nation today and suggested it might be that their list was what people were actually reading as distinct from what people were buying.

Posted by Linkmeister at June 22, 2004 12:23 PM