The top titles on Abebooks.com's list of bestselling books in 2005
mirror the titles on new book bestseller lists in the past few years.
(Only No. 1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was published this
year.) But the marketplace for new, used, rare and oop books also has
some titles that don't show up on "regular" lists.
Most notably, college textbooks graduated to a major category, accounting for 30 of the top 100 titles. The most popular textbook subjects were business, science and math. Richard Davies of Abebooks attributed this concentration in part to business students' savvy about e-commerce, since that is now a key component of most business classes. In the case of science, those "students are simply burdened with some of the most expensive textbooks around." (Abebooks intends to raise awareness about its services by sending "street teams" to 16 U.S. campuses in January.)
There was what Abebooks called "a continuing strong demand" for religious books, which resulted in the inclusion of The Purpose Driven Life, Conversations with God and the Ultra Trim Bible in the top 20. Concerning the Ultra Trim Bible, Davies said he thought that with the spread of palm-sized electronic devices like iPods and BlackBerrys, Christians saw the light and want to carry the Bible with them in the same convenient way.
One other note: To Kill a Mockingbird remains "eternally popular."
Abebooks.com's bestselling books in 2005:
1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
2. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
3. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
4. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
5. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
6. The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
7. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
8. Organizational Behavior by Stephen P. Robbins
9. Ultra Trim Bible
10. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Kidd Monk
11. Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
12. Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen Lundin
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
15. The Norton Anthology of English Literature by M.H. Abrams
16. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
17. Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
18. Productions/Operations Management by William J. Stevenson
19. Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
20. Microbiology by Lansing M. Prescott et al.
Most notably, college textbooks graduated to a major category, accounting for 30 of the top 100 titles. The most popular textbook subjects were business, science and math. Richard Davies of Abebooks attributed this concentration in part to business students' savvy about e-commerce, since that is now a key component of most business classes. In the case of science, those "students are simply burdened with some of the most expensive textbooks around." (Abebooks intends to raise awareness about its services by sending "street teams" to 16 U.S. campuses in January.)
There was what Abebooks called "a continuing strong demand" for religious books, which resulted in the inclusion of The Purpose Driven Life, Conversations with God and the Ultra Trim Bible in the top 20. Concerning the Ultra Trim Bible, Davies said he thought that with the spread of palm-sized electronic devices like iPods and BlackBerrys, Christians saw the light and want to carry the Bible with them in the same convenient way.
One other note: To Kill a Mockingbird remains "eternally popular."
Abebooks.com's bestselling books in 2005:
1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
2. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
3. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
4. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
5. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
6. The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
7. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
8. Organizational Behavior by Stephen P. Robbins
9. Ultra Trim Bible
10. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Kidd Monk
11. Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
12. Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen Lundin
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
15. The Norton Anthology of English Literature by M.H. Abrams
16. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
17. Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
18. Productions/Operations Management by William J. Stevenson
19. Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
20. Microbiology by Lansing M. Prescott et al.