Some snarky observations upon comparing the Top Ten Book lists between Amazon Canada and Amazon US.
- Canadian list topped by a box set of books about soul-sucking vampires. US list is topped by a book authored by a soul-sucking vampire.
- Both countries' readers have a whole lot of faith that Dan Brown has a brilliant storyline left in him.
- Canada balances out US right wing political theory with Malcolm Gladwell.
- Canadian list finished by a box set of books about soul-sucking vampires. US list is finished by a book authored by a soul-sucking vampire.
- Number nine on the Canadian list is a book about "The difficult choices a family must make when a child is diagnosed with a serious disease are explored with pathos and understanding...." Number nine on the US list is about the difficult choices a book buyer must make when an entertainer's demise is exploited by pathos and misunderstanding.
- If Dan Brown is to get to number one on the US list, he must lengthen the title of his book to The Lost Symbol: How I Lost an eBay Auction for the Holy Grail to Mary Magdalene When That Bitch Bid Sniped Me While I Was Staring at the Proofs for the 25 Ambigrams I'm Gonna Get the Publishers to Fork Out Big Bucks For When They Print This Book. Guaranteed number one.
- 7 out of 15 unique titles (that aren't box sets) rely on the overused colon for their titles.
- None of the titles contain the letter "z".
- Only one book contains a vanity self-reference to the author... actually, to the author's common sense.
- Only one book name drops an American Revolutionary in the title (strangely enough not on the Canadian list). I wonder if the devout religious followers of the author know he's inspired by a man who said "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church."
Top Ten Books at amazon.ca
- Sookie Stackhouse Boxed Set by Charlaine Harris
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
- The Book Of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
- Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller by Jeff Rubin
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- Three Cups Of Tea by Greg Mortenson
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- My Sister's Keeper: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
- The Twilight Saga Collection by Stephenie Meyer
Top Ten Books at amazon.com
- Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine by Glenn Beck
- The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
- The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
- Sookie Stackhouse, Books 1-7 by Charlaine Harris
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
- The Shack by William P. Young
- Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson by Ian Halperin
- Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin