Amazon's Commentary on Culture

If you want to see a great commentary on our culture, take a look at Amazon's 100 Best Books of 2009: Customer Bestsellers.

Here are a few observations from the list:

• The largest genre of books are those concerning weight loss.
• Glenn Beck has two books in the top twenty.
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is number 13.
• Richard Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth is number 68.
• Bruce Metzger's successor, Bart Ehrman, managed to slip another irrelevant historical Jesus book onto the list at 82.
• Self-help books seem to still be popular. As long as people have problems, they will buy these by the truckload.
• Three Cups of Tea is probably the only book that I would read from this list, although I would probably not read the young reader's edition which is the only version that made the list.