Trends for 2011
Books that you bought & shared from The Book Depository
It has been great fun following our sales this year and trying to spot the trends and find out what people are interested in, you know, all Zeitgeist and that. It's been a monster year for cupcakes and zombies for example! So we thought we would pull together some info on all the things that fly out of the warehouse and do some little pics to illustrate our findings.
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Let's get baking!
We looked at sales of cupcake cookbooks throughout the year to see if there were seasons when customers were munching their way through more tasty treats than other times.
Looks like it kicks OFF in May, with a little boost in August. But November, well, nom nom nom...
Crime by numbers Back to top
Death by chainsaw? Or, death by papercut... How the top 4 crime books this year fared against the top 100.
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Most reviewed crime books
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Sister
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
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Room
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Hushed
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Stop Me
Your favourite diary from Wimpy Kid Back to top
It's been a huge year for Greg but which has been the most popular entry in his Wimpy Kid diary?
Looks like all of Greg's fans were waiting for the big new entry this year!
I see brightly colored bricks! Everywhere! Back to top
Here are the bestselling building brick books of the year (try saying that with a mouthful of lego)
P.S: If you were going to build a box out of Lego big enough to hold all the Lego books we've despatched this year, you would need a lot of brown bricks.
Eurgh, Argh... Zombies! Back to top
What's the collective noun for Zombies? An aagh!? A lurch? A rot of Zombies? Zombies are everywhere... Look! Quick, the shotgun! Zombiefied Jane Austen still trending strongly, nice.
Because The Walking Dead books were so popular, we left them off otherwise we'd be really buried in Zombies!Let's fly away Back to top
Do people actually visit the countries they buy travel guides to? We've known quite a few people, naming no names, who fill up their shelves with guides to exotic destinations having never set foot further than Watford Gap. But, we're sure that's not the case here!
Looks like 3 hours worth of security palaver hasn't put you off the US as the most popular destination and it's great to see South East Asia right up there too.-
Bestselling travel books
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U.S.A
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France
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Great Britain
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Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos & the Greater Mekong
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Indonesia
Who's studying what? Back to top
We deliberately left out Media Studies as it may have skewed the results somewhat... Languages are predictably popular but great to see the Sciences and Mathematics coming through strong!
