A couple of times lately we've wished we had information about what books are in demand in the part of the English-speaking world that's on the opposite side of the globe. An email buddy in Brisbane, Australia, has passed on links to a bookstore chain in Australia & New Zealand, Dymocks, that maintains various bestseller lists; and to some bestseller lists and recommended reading lists at the Brisbane Public Library. Whitcoulls, another New Zealand chain, also has lists.
Hmmmm. Mostly familiar stuff: Harry Potter, Kathy Reichs' Cross Bones, Janet Evanovich's Eleven on Top, Elizabeth Kostovo's The Historian, The Da Vinci Code, and so on; a couple we don't know: The CSIRO Total Well-Being Diet by Noakes and Clifton, Robin Hobbs's Shaman's Crossing...
As we said the other day, demand for The Da Vinci Code is tapering off locally, though it's still on the NYT bestseller list as well as the lists in England and Canada. The diet book is apparently not available in this country. The Robin Hobb title won't be available here until September; we'll order a copy.
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