Comments on: The Bestselling Books of all Time! *

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:59:00 +0000

I couldn’t have picked them out. I love the Temeraire books but then its dragons, innit. I like Peter Hamilton, Robert Jordan and George R.R. Martin. I was disappointed to see Mercedes Lackey so far down the list, I love her Valdemar books. Terry Pratchet is quite funny but two books was enuf. Elizabeth Moon is there with Paksenarrion which I enjoyed. I see the Narnia books are on the list too. Glad you made it, but if it were up to me I would have thought you would have sold more Glenda. A lot of my favourite authors there. Ru, you will have to get reading if you don’t know some of these people.

By: hrugaar

hrugaar — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:39:00 +0000

Oh yes, I’ve heard of more than half of the writers in the top ten … I just hadn’t guessed that they would be up there. 😀

I did also recognise quite a few of the other author names on the list, but very few of the book titles. I’m deplorably out of the loop. :

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:08:00 +0000

Well, the two Australians I’m not surprised you wouldn’t know. The other 8 – there’s a Jordan, a Martin, a Gaiman, a Pratchett – even a person on a rock has heard of those surely! *g*.

John Scalzi had been up for and won some awards and also writes one of the most popular sf blogs on the planet. And Naomi Novak – the only person with 2 books in the top ten, is a Brit writing about dragons. I wanted you to read her while you were here, then realised I’d lent the books to someone else.

Number 8 is a well-known SF writer, Space Opera, also a Brit.

By: hrugaar

hrugaar — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:39:00 +0000

I didn't guess any of the top ten. In fact, I'm ashamed to say that I didn't even recognise most of the titles on the list! :S

But congratulations on making it into the top 75! :)