I didn't intend this as a serious thread, and wasn't just real sure where to put it, so I thought book talk would be as good a place as any, since it's about books! LOL!

I just had a thought, one way to determine the really MAJOR Relay and swap killers (and prolly not a great VBB choice either) is to check out the most registered books on BC! :lol:

1 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 2,973
2 Life of Pi by Yann Martel 1,783
3 Angels & Demons by Dan Brown 1,758
4 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 1,559
5 A Painted House by John Grisham 1,491
6 Deception Point by Dan Brown 1,489
7 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 1,351
8 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 1,340
9 The Summons by John Grisham 1,332
10 The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 1,265
11 The Brethren by John Grisham 1,249
12 The Testament by John Grisham 1,226
13 Hannibal by Thomas Harris 1,206
14 The Runaway Jury by John Grisham 1,197
15 The Firm by John Grisham 1,188

If it's by Dan Brown or John Grisham, DON"T USE IT! :lol:

I've only read 5 of those :lol: I think I've got 3 more somehwere in the house though (unregistered)

I do think you have a point.
Those books are very easily accesible.
If not on BC you can get them on PBS or bookmooch and a lot of people have those books.

Is there not a top 50?

I do think this is a good thread

And I've only read 2 (Lovely Bones/DaVinci Code) and 2 others are on Mt. TBR (Angels & Demons/Secret Life of Bees).

But I don't have any desire to read the others so just because I don't have them or haven't read them, doesn't mean I want to either. :P

That's true - I can't say I have any huge desire to read the other ones.

I've read 10 of these and only a couple I haven't that I even remotely think I'd be interested in (Life of Pi & Painted House). Yep, I would say these are relay stoppers :giggle:

I read Painted House a few months ago and it is really good...so go get one of thsoe copies!!!!!!

1 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 2,973 READ IT
2 Life of Pi by Yann Martel 1,783 LISTENED TO IT
3 Angels & Demons by Dan Brown 1,758 LISTENED TO IT
4 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 1,559 READ IT
5 A Painted House by John Grisham 1,491 READ IT
6 Deception Point by Dan Brown 1,489
7 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 1,351 READ IT
8 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 1,340 TBR
9 The Summons by John Grisham 1,332
10 The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 1,265 TBR
11 The Brethren by John Grisham 1,249
12 The Testament by John Grisham 1,226
13 Hannibal by Thomas Harris 1,206 READ IT
14 The Runaway Jury by John Grisham 1,197
15 The Firm by John Grisham 1,188 READ IT

I have a question... having read & liked the book, would you consider it something that would translate well to film? Cause I've never read the book, but watched the movie recently purely for the RSL factor... and I found it sooo boring... but maybe it is just one of those books that is a good book but not so exciting on the screen?

PS: RSL = Robert Sean Leonard... the man is so hot he can make denim overalls droolably sexy...

you can change it to any number you want, I just happened to pick top 15, I think it probably goes to 100 maybe, i don't know. ;)

I just thought it was funny that it was dominated by those two guys, who are obviously very accomplished authors!

Remember when Da Vinci code was impossible to find in the used book stores? Not any more! :lol: :rolleyes:

i've only read the Mitch Albom book, have no interest in the others...

I've read 12 of those and have the other three (Deception Point, Hannibal and The Firm) in the TBR pile. :rolleyes:

I agree that A Painted House was very good.

I have read 7 of these but don't have the desire to read the others.

Then you have the opposite, the books most wished for on cliff's.

1
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go
93 wishers 2
Markus Zusak The Book Thief (Just arrived from play.com!)
86 wishers 3
Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything
80 wishers 4
Khaled Hosseini A thousand splendid suns (just arrived from play.com!!)
77 wishers 5
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
69 wishers 6
Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler's Wife (Loved it)
67 wishers 7
Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club
66 wishers 8
Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides
61 wishers 9
Diane Setterfield The Thirteenth Tale
61 wishers 10
Gregory Maguire Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (want it)
61 wishers 11
Yann Martel Life of Pi
59 wishers 12
James Joyce Ulysses
59 wishers 13
Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner (Loved it)
59 wishers 14
Sara Gruen Water for Elephants
57 wishers 15
Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
56 wishers 16
Jodi Picoult Second Glance
56 wishers 17
Mary Roach Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
56 wishers 18
Mitch Albom The Five People You Meet in Heaven
55 wishers 19
Jodi Picoult Picture Perfect
53 wishers 20
Jodi Picoult Harvesting the Heart
53 wishers 21
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper (old book but still so many wishes? :o )
51 wishers 22
Christopher Paolini Eragon
49 wishers 23
Ian McEwan Saturday
49 wishers 24
Truman Capote In Cold Blood (Very Old book , new fashion? movie?) :blink:
49 wishers 25
Zadie Smith On Beauty
48 wishers 26
Elizabeth Kostova The Historian
47 wishers 27
David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day
46 wishers 28
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
45 wishers 29
Cormac McCarthy The Road
45 wishers 30
David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
45 wishers 31
Ian McEwan Atonement
45 wishers 32
Jodi Picoult Mercy
45 wishers 33
Jodi Picoult Nineteen Minutes (great :))
45 wishers 34
Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees
45 wishers 35
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
44 wishers 36
Neil Gaiman American Gods
44 wishers 37
Sue Monk Kidd The Mermaid Chair
43 wishers 38
Jack Kerouac On the Road
42 wishers 39
Alexander McCall Smith The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
42 wishers 40
Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
42 wishers 41
Lionel Shriver We Need to Talk about Kevin
42 wishers 42
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
42 wishers 43
Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy
41 wishers 44
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
41 wishers 45
Chuck Palahniuk Haunted
41 wishers 46
Jodi Picoult Keeping Faith
41 wishers 47
Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated
41 wishers 48
Neil Gaiman Neverwhere
40 wishers 49
Irene Nemirovsky Suite Française
40 wishers 50
Jodi Picoult Songs of the Humpback Whale