The online retailer Amazon.co.uk has revealed its top 10 highest-selling books of the decade, with Harry Potter and Twilight featuring heavily.
The final two tales in JK Rowling's Harry Potter series occupy the top two positions, with another Rowling work, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, also in the Amazon top 10.Eight of the 10 books on the list were written by women. The only male to make an appearance is the Afghan-born novelist Khaled Hosseini, whose books The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns round off the list.
Top 10 best-selling books of the decade:
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - JK Rowling
3. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
4. Twilight -Stephenie Meyer
5. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
6. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - JK Rowling
7. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
8. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
9. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
10. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Jo has 7 books in the series & Meyer has only 4. Why only the last two books made on the list and on the other hand the whole 4 of Meyer's are on the list. So what? the famous HARRY POTTER made on top of the list ^^ Take that MEYER! (jkjk)
Top 10 best-selling authors of the decade:
1. JK Rowling
2. Stephenie Meyer
3. Julia Donaldson
4. Terry Pratchett
5. Jamie Oliver
6. Dan Brown
7. Enid Blyton
8. Bernard Cornwell
9. Alexander McCall Smith
10. William Shakespeare
Rowling is our QUEEN!!!
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