Thursday, April 22, 2010

Bestseller Young Adult Books

Best Seller Young Adults are those book which have been found to appeal to a large section of young adults. Young adult Books or Literature is targeted for the age group between 12 to 18. The young adult books are written, published and marketed for the young teens. Young Adult Books have a blurred boundary between children literature and adults' literature. The bestsellers like Harry Potter Series and The Lord of the Rings are two instances of Young adult books.

The themes of Young Adult Books are selected to interest the young readers. The Young Adult Books mostly have the protagonist whose age between 12 to 18 as is the age of Harry Potter, the hero of the Harry Potter series. The issues we frequently encounter in the young adults books are those dealing with adolescence, emotional needs, psychological fluctuations and maturation into adults. Sometimes these kind of young adult books are termed as problem novels because these novels concentrate on the growth of a child's sensibility and the teens various kinds of adjustments in the society.

Bestseller Young Adult Books

  • Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
  • Eragon by Christopher Paolini
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
  • Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  • Maximum Ride by James Patterson
  • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares


Friday, April 16, 2010

Top 10 Bestsellers 2010


Reading any book is a great way to relax, and leave the ordinary world behind, there is something magical about a bestseller. In order to fascinate so many people, a book has to be really well written - characters have to be vividly portrayed, their adventures and misadventures have to be believable - and engrossing. The protagonist has to engage the reader - otherwise nobody would care what happens to him. So any book that becomes a bestseller is likely to have done lots of things right.
You will find here latest books by the masters of the craft - like Dan Brown or Stephen King, or Jeff Kinney
, Julia Childs and her 2 volume French Cooking, but also newcomers Sarah Palin with her book Going Rogue, political comentator Glenn Beck's Arguing with Idiots, or Greg Mortensen's Stones into Schools - about promoting peace in Afghanistan - with books, not arms.
Enjoy!


Best Selling Books 1-5


Bestsellers 6-10


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