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June 15, 2003

Blogged Books 2002

Ever wonder what other bloggers are reading? According to All Consuming, an aggregator of books mentioned in web logs, these are the top ten blogged books of 2002:

  1. We Blog by Paul Bausch, Matthew Haughey, Meg Hourihan (63 mentions)
  2. Small Pieces Loosely Joined by David Weinberger (58 mentions)
  3. The Weblog Handbook by Rebecca Blood (57 mentions)
  4. Stupid White Men by Michael Moore (54 mentions)
  5. Linked by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (52 mentions)
  6. Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold (51 mentions)
  7. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (45 mentions)
  8. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (43 mentions)
  9. Emergence by Steven Johnson (39 mentions)
  10. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker (37 mentions)

Hmm. Andy often accuses me of being obsessed with fiction, but I can't help noticing that nine of the above are non-fiction. Doesn't anyone read novels anymore?

Chuck Palahniuk, a BookBlog author, also made the list several times:

15. Lullaby (31 mentions)
64. Survivor (14 mentions)
86. Fight Club (12 mentions)
90. Choke (12 mentions)

Click here to view the entire list. Yes, I know I’m very late with this information, but I only just saw this web page.



comments

This is quite interesting. If I weren't preoccupied (and tired), I'd compare the list against the other 2002 lists -- bestseller lists, critics' choices, et cetera, and see what sorts of patterns emerge. I suspect that the focus on nonfiction, while it makes my heart warm, has to do with the nature of weblog content; those who link to books are probably doing so in the context of comments about current events.

Or they're just self-absorbed: Two of the top three are about weblogs written by webloggers, and the other is about the web.

I'd lean toward self-absorbed as an explanation.

 

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