Just as the rush of Summer Reading Lists dies down, the Fall Reading Lists arrive.  Me, well, I’m holding out for the mid-February Reading List ’cause February is cold and dull in DC.  I’ll need something to do to ignore a pressing deadline since going outside won’t be an option.  The newest list is from Seattle and, really, don’t all great things come from Seattle - coffee, the internet….most serial killers.

I don’t have a problem with the newest "must read" list.  Many of the books have been pumped and reviewed to death (yeah, I’m talking about The Tender Bar, On Beauty and Indecision - hell, I pumped them in earlier blogs, kind of).  This one talks about these three and a host of others, some I hadn’t heard of which might be a good sign.  It will be interesting to see if these now are the only books we’ll hear about for the next few months. 

And, what about this quote:

As Nelson noted, there are 200 adult hardcover books this fall with first printings of more than 100,000 copies. That’s more than 20 million copies in a marketplace that ranges from Costco and Amazon.com to the local independent.

If that’s true, why do we only hear about the same 10 books? 

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