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'Fifty Shades of Grey' Tops Amazon's Best Selling Book List for 2012
The "Fifty Shades of Grey" triology topped Amazon.com's list for best selling books for 2012 (perhaps people were too embarrassed to buy it in a store?)
The New York Times has 20 lists of best sellers ranging from nonfiction, fiction, hard cover fiction, e-book fiction, e-book nonfiction — even Manga, Japanese comic books.
But nothing gives the pulse of America like Amazon’s top selling list of 2012. This was the year of erotic literature, according to Amazon’s list.
Here are the top 8 best selling books on Amazon:
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1. Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy, E.L. James
2. Fifty Shades Darker: Book Two of the Fifty Shades Trilogy, E. L. James
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3. Fifty Shades Freed: Book Three of the Fifty Shades Trilogy, E. L. James
4. The Hunger Games (Book 1), Suzanne Collins
5. StrengthsFinder 20.9, Tom Rath
6. Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed 3-volume Boxed Set, E. L. James
7. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2), Suzanne Collins
8. Â Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3), Suzanne Collins
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