the purpose driven life barnes and noble

Self-help especially resonated with nonfiction readers of the 2000s, led by Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life and Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret. No one author dominated the 1990s more than John Grisham, who had a different best-seller every year straight from 1994 to 2000 (and more sprinkled throughout the following decade). On the nonfiction side, people focused on health fads and business in equal measure, from Judy Mazel’s The Beverly Hills Diet to automobile titan Lee Iacocca’s autobiography. King took the top spot in 1984 ( The Talisman, co-written with Peter Straub), 1986 ( It), and 1987 ( The Tommyknockers). the Extra-Terrestrial and Return of the Jedi ruled the fiction best-seller list in 19, respectively. The ’80s were all about sci-fi movies and Stephen King. The nonfiction best-seller lists in the ’70s were a tug-of-war between sex and religion, where guides like The Sensuous Man and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask competed with Kenneth Taylor’s The Living Bible and Billy Graham’s Angels. It’s a fascinating cultural portrait of the country during a given decade. In addition to splitting nonfiction and fiction into separate lists, she omitted young adult fiction altogether-so don’t expect to see any Harry Potter.

In 2018, Literary Hub managing editor Emily Temple analyzed nearly a century’s worth of Publisher’s Weekly best-seller lists to determine which books sold best each year.

The purpose driven life barnes and noble