Tales
With two weeks left in the year, here are the top ten selling books of 2019:
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens — 907,192 (Novel)
Becoming by Michelle Obama — 888,611
Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild by Dav Pilkey — 524,849 (Kids)
Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis — 505,809 (Self Help)
Diary of An Awesome Friendly Kid by Jeff Kinney — 493,154 (Kids)
Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis — 490,019 (Self Help)
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss — 483,478
Educated by Tara Westover — 454,989 (Memoir)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris — 365,246 (Novel)
The Wonky Donkey by Craig Smith — 272,182 (Kids)
And here, according to Wiki, are the top nine sellers of all-time, each selling 100–200 million copies:
A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens 1859
The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943
The Lord of the Rings — J. R. R. Tolkien 1954
The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho 1988
Grimms’ Fairy Tales — Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 1812
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone — J. K. Rowling 1997
The Hobbit — J. R. R. Tolkien 1937
And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie 1939 100
Dream of the Red Chamber — Cao Xueqin 1791
NFL: The week’s star was future Hall of Fame QB Drew Brees, who set two records in the Saints’ Monday night mauling of the Colts. He completed 29 of 30 passes, which is now the standard for highest in-game completion percentage, 96.7. He threw for four scores and now stands alone at the top for all-time TD passes, 541, breaking Peyton Manning’s mark of 539, which Tom Brady will likely surpass shortly. Kudos… It still seems the Baltimore Ravens are the league’s best squad. Several teams can make a solid argument for number two… Kudos to 67-year-old Bruce Arians in his first season as head coach of the Buccaneers, who are playing at a high level right now. If Jameis Winston rectifies his turnover ratio, they will be a contender next year… It was nice to see Eli Manning get a win in what may have been his last home game… Two backup QBs I praised weeks ago, Kyle Allen of the Panthers and Jacoby Brissett of the Colts, are suddenly struggling, and rookie QBs Devlin Hodges of the Steelers and Drew Lock of the Broncos each suffered their first career stinkers… Was that the real Cowboys or an aberration?
Rain put the kibosh on the floating book shop today. One good thing about it is that it is washing away the rock salt the city stupidly dumped on its streets yesterday morning. There won’t be toxic clouds of it in the air tomorrow, coating vehicles and goods displayed on the sidewalk.
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