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Here’s Christchurch City Libraries’ top 100 items from last year for adults.
Factoids and observations:
- Road Code – number 1. Essential stuff.
- Wow - check out the number of James Patterson titles in the list (7?)
- Passion for Scandinavian crime is so not melting away
- Oldies like Wilbur Smith can still cut it with the new fellas
- Looks like people do want to know about Paul Henry, as his memoir What was I thinking is the top NZ book (after the Road Code) … but closely on its tail is The Conductor by Sarah Quigley
- About 15 out of the 100 are New Zealand books
Any observations or surprises?
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24 January 2012 at 10:50 am
I can’t believe that I have read only one of these (not counting the Road Code!)
24 January 2012 at 12:03 pm
Ha ha me too (dare I say I read number 76). But I do have a copy of #78 (Mr Fry) at home to read. So I might get the total up to 2 …
26 January 2012 at 9:10 am
No-one here picked the road code as #1. But we did guess # 2 & 3. I’ve slightly more than a handful, but it’s now given me some other titles to place holds on.
It’s always interesting to see what was popular. I wonder how many of these titles will still be around in 10 years … 50 years. Wanna have a go at picking any future classics from the list?
26 January 2012 at 9:33 am
I’m picking The Torchlight list: Around the world in 200 books by James Robert Flynn as one for the ages …
http://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/694188037_the_torchlight_list
26 January 2012 at 11:31 am
yes sadly I have only read one in the first 50. The Room by Amanda Donoghue, but what a book, shortlisted for the Orange Prize it’s a stunner – funny, quirky , sad, uplifting, thrilling – it has it all and the loveliest 5 year old protagonist you’ll ever meet!
And I will NEVER read the Paul Henry book – even if you offer chocolates!