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THE SQUIDOO BESTSELLER BOOKLIST (2007)

MeganCasey by MeganCasey
Last updated: 08/15/2008

The Thing About Books

People create Squidoo lenses to talk about things.

Sometimes they talk about ideas, businesses, how-tos, Presidential candidates, favorite movies, their stores, their pets, themselves.

Lots of times, people talk about books. Even more often, they recommend a book for further reading on their topic.

We understand books, we like books, we feel safe talking about books, books make us feel smart.

Similarly, people like to buy books. Books are souvenirs for ideas that we care about. Books are companions on car rides and planes. Books stick around.

So I'm not surprised that books were the top selling product category on Squidoo for 2007.

This lens will talk a little more about how that works, and show you what the 15 bestsellers were!

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Table of contents

  1. Books were the #1 top selling product category on Squidoo for 2007
  2. The Book Report
  3. But first: The #1 book on Squidoo
  4. The rest: The top 15 bestsellers on Squidoo
  5. The top 15, re-sorted. (Now you decide!)
  6. Authors who have lenses get found more online than authors who don't.
  7. Readers and authors, show off your best book lenses
  8. Any tips for how to make a really stellar book lens?
  9. Lensmasters:
  10. P.S. I recommend SquidLit.com
  11. P.S. (yes, again) -- Curious about the bestselling movies (DVDs) on Squidoo?
  12. New YouTube vids

Books were the #1 top selling product category on Squidoo for 2007 

The Book Report

A quick look at revenue

Of all the types of things that visitors to Squidoo could buy from the pages they land on, across all the merchant modules (Amazon, eBay, CafePress, the Superstore), "Books" was the number one product category for 2007 -- in both number of units sold & revenue.

In other words, Squidoo lenses sold more books in 2007 than they did anything else. By a factor of 7.

You guys sold 21,054 different book titles. And that's not accounting for titles that sold lots of copies! Also, please keep in mind that if you pasted in your own Amazon affiliate info and sold books that way, we aren't able to track those purchases... so I bet book sales were a lot higher than we're reporting here.

Other top-performing categories? Books were distantly followed by electronics, followed by "Other" (long tail, anyone?). Apparel, Toys&Games, and DVDs made notable sales as well.

Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to show the 15 bestselling books on Squidoo from 2007. And let you vote on them.

Happy reading!

P.S. Nota Godin: It's probably not very fair that Squidoo was founded by a bestselling author! So on the list below, I have removed any of Seth's books that sold mega-copies. Still, The Dip is seriously worth your while).

But first: The #1 book on Squidoo

Web Analytics: An Hour a Day

Web Analytics: An Hour a Day

by: Avinash Kaushik

Amazon Price: $12.94 (as of 02/15/2012)Buy Now

Avinash is one smart and generous guy. If you run a website, you won't be sorry you bought this.

The rest: The top 15 bestsellers on Squidoo

A static list to preserve their rankings. You can vote for your favorites below!

#1) Web Analytics: An Hour a Day

#2) Rule the Web: How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet---Better, Faster, Easier

#3) Gainsborough: Colour Library (Phaidon Colour Library)

#4) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)

#5) The Japanese Tattoo

#6) The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

#7) 50 Hikes in the Adirondacks: Short Walks, Day Trips, and Backpacks Throughout the Park (50 Hikes)

#8) A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

#9) Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

#10) Stylish Knits for Dogs: 30 Projects to Knit in a Weekend

#11) The Secrets of Economic Indicators: Hidden Clues to Future Economic Trends and Investment Opportunities

#12) The Lost Art of Towel Origami

#13) The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You to Know About

#14) The Dangerous Book for Boys

#15) The Houdini Solution

The top 15, re-sorted. (Now you decide!)

Vote for your favorites. Or click 'em to buy.

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Burning from the Inside

Burning from the Inside

The essential Goth band Bauhaus was already starting to splinter by the time of this final album, so Burning from the Inside is a rickety bridge between fiery, arty intimations of darkness, and the two paths bandmembers later took: singer Peter Murphy's intense new-wave drama, and the more playful dance-club rock groove favored by the others (who went on to Tones On Tail and to Love and Rockets). David J.'s guitar sound, sour and sharp, and the band's dubby production tricks, define these songs....1 point

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Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

Singer Annie Lennox and guitarist Dave Stewart first received notice in the Tourists, scoring a big U.K. hit in 1979 with a cover of Dusty Springfield's "I Only Want to Be With You." Emerging as the Eurythmics in 1981, Lennox's cabaret-tinged vocal style and Stewart's left-of-center songs took a while to mesh, but when they finally did, with the haunting, hook-filled 1983 No. 1 single, "Sweet Dreams" (accompanied by one of the most striking videos ever made), the two found themselves rocketing t...1 point

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The Queen Is Dead

The Queen Is Dead

This is the value of working at cross-purposes: The Smiths were Morrissey's excuse to undulate his wry, disaffected lyrics, and Johnny Marr's vehicle for his sharp, chiming, pop songs. Their favorite kind of compromise made them essentially a singles band, and The Queen Is Dead has a couple of their best (notably "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side," one of the greatest pop expressions of the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name). But it also has some wonderful compromises of different kinds: the b...0 points

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Combat Rock

Combat Rock

The final album by the Clash's original Strummer/Jones incarnation is also their most inconsistent. There were musical and ideological rifts developing within the band, and it shows: the experimentation is almost as wild as Sandanista!'s (and the biggest experiment is heading away from their punk shiftiness and into a commercial rock sound), but they seem to be enjoying it less. The band's stabs at funk and poetry aren't terribly successful, but it all came together for two massive hits: "Should...0 points

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Music for the Masses

Music for the Masses

This album is a culmination of Depeche Mode's middle-period experimentation. More informed by Goth than techno, it is still anchored by plenty of the larger-than-life-baritone melodrama so distinctive of David Gahan's vocals. The most experimental track is "Pimpf"--a song that heave-hoes along with the synthesized emulation of a Russian men's choir. Although nowhere near fast enough to be danceable, the commanding "Never Let Me Down" ranks as the best single on the track, with the most hummable....0 points

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The Joshua Tree

The Joshua Tree

Having nearly exhausted their capacity for pop-song politics on War and The Unforgettable Fire, U2 turned toward themes of personal identity and complex relationships on The Joshua Tree. Not that the group was willing to come down off the barricades entirely: "Mothers of the Disappeared" and "Bullet the Blue Sky" turned a jaundiced eye toward Central America and the United States' role there. But the predominant mood here is one of self-discovery and the hunger for something more on tracks like....0 points

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Document

Document

Singer Michael Stipe finally confesses that even he doesn't know what he's trying to say--among the lines flying by are "tryin' to tell you something we don't know" and "there's something going on that's not quite right." But R.E.M.'s roar is at its sharpest, as Peter Buck's guitars twist up surf riffs and the Bill Berry-Mike Mills rhythm section captures the force of forebears Big Star and the Byrds. After half a decade of college-rock heroism, R.E.M. achieved its first hit album thanks to the....0 points

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Express

Express

This expanded edition has been remastered from the studio digital tapes by producer John A. Rivers, giving the music a new depth and clarity. The release features the original uk album, various B sides and remixes as well as 2 short instrumentals discovered during remastering and expanded artwork.0 points

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Daydream Nation

Daydream Nation

The essential New York rock band of the post-punk era, Sonic Youth care as much about the quasi-symphonic, microtonal art-guitar music of composers like Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca as they do about the rock-song form, and with Daydream Nation, they struck their greatest balance between the two. The songs hover gorgeously for extended lengths, letting guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo intertwine fragile tonalities as carefully as it's possible to do at wall-shaking volume, while Moore a...0 points

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Nothing's Shocking

Nothing's Shocking

Though the songs aren't quite as good as those on Ritual De Lo Habitual, this album is much more consistent, with a heavy rock-funk-punk mix that's a pleasure to hear. The slower songs (especially "Summertime Rolls" and "Jane Says") work well, while the up-tempo material--in particular the closer "Pig's in Zen"--is both catchy and ambitious. It's a fine album overall, and if the band's Zeppelin-ward aspirations don't quite work, their music is still quite good in its own right. --Genevieve Willi...0 points

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Treasure

Treasure

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Violent Femmes

Violent Femmes

Emerging, literally, from the streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where they gained notoriety through busking, this strange trio led by guitarist-vocalist Gordon Gano became a cult favorite with their self-titled debut album in 1983. Influenced greatly by Jonathan Richman's Modern Lovers, the Femmes' minimalist sound pitted Gano's low-volume electric guitar against Brian Ritchie's acoustic bass guitar and Victor De Lorenzo's ashcanlike homemade drum kit--all of which only served to make Gano's angs...0 points

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Surfer Rosa

Surfer Rosa

Before the Breeders and Frank Black, there was this Boston quartet, playing hardcore's rush and terseness against the acoustic grit and the minor-key flourish of Latin pop. Their first full-length album is their starkest, harsh and trebly, with the drums right in your face, and songs edited to eliminate any note that's not absolutely necessary. Singer Black Francis yelping away about destroyed bodies and the river Euphrates, alternately acting cryptic and crazed. Kim Deal, then calling herself "...0 points

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Peepshow

Peepshow

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Staring at the Sea: The Singles

Staring at the Sea: The Singles

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Big and moody, Staring at the Sea compiles some hits and near misses of these excavators of the dark soul. Beginning with their earliest hits--the sparse "Killing an Arab," the aptly tedious "10:15 Saturday Night," and the charming "Boys Don't Cry"--this collection stops before the comparative giddiness of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.



Musicians first, brooding art types second, The Cure's unique instrumentation doesn't get the credit it rightfully deserves. The thrashy, trash-can brea...0 points

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The Stone Roses

The Stone Roses

Some albums really can change the world, and in 1989 this was one of them. The psychedlic dance extravaganza that was The Stone Roses ushered in the era of Madchester, baggy trousers, Kangols, and the Hacienda. From the magnificent protracted opening of "I Wanna Be Adored" (where, for once, the arrogance wasn't overdone) to the dying seconds of "Fools Gold," every note was perfect. Jon Squire's guitarwork was a thing of magic, a new hero for a new age, Ian Brown sang with gusto, and the rhythm s...0 points

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Dead Can Dance [Re-Mastered]

Dead Can Dance [Re-Mastered]

This 1984 release set the pace for the band's career, helped define the tone of the 4AD label, and opened the door for a genre that includes Delirium, Deep Forest, and Enigma. While much less dense and textural than more recent DCD, this album begins the group's study of combining global rhythms and instrumentation from various musical eras with contemporary sounds. Here they explore the somewhat Gothic electronic and rock instrumentation of post-punk European pop. Featuring the lush, sonorous v...0 points

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Kick

Kick

Throughout the early 1980s, INXS kept threatening to go big league, and with 1987's Kick they broke wide open, sENDing a sharp quartet of singles--"New Sensation," "Devil Inside," "Need You Tonight," and the shimmering ballad "Never Tear Us Apart"--right to the charts. The rest of Kick, especially the strutting "Guns in the Sky" and the groovy "Wild Life," is of similar quality; all of it is marked by the band's Stones-y guitars and angular, funk-tinged rhythms. Vocalist Michael Hutchence's MTV....0 points

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Starfish

Starfish

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Important!

Authors who have lenses get found more online than authors who don't.

Authors, isn't it time that you started lenses for your books? Talk about your ideas, point to your blog, highlight great blurbs you've gotten, link to your publisher, say thanks to people who inspired you, and, of course, spotlight your book for sale on Amazon. What are you waiting for? (Heck, get your editor or your publicist to make lenses, too).

Readers and authors, show off your best book lenses

I'll start the list with a few of my favorites, but you should post yours...

Book lenses and author lenses only, please.

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Make Money Taking Surveys

Discover How to Make as Much Money as You
Want, Just By Having an Internet Connection,
Some Spare Time, and an Opinion!7 points

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Book 7

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" is the last book in J.K. Rowling's magical series. In this seventh and final book, Harry Potter discovers what fate truly has in store for him as he makes his way to that final meeting with Voldemort.3 points

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My Son's Favorite Children's Picture Books

Book reviews of my son's favorite picture books. Plus, download a free e-book edition of my new children's picture book, Squirt Swims with the Stars. www.squirtthewhale.com3 points

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If God Made the Universe, Then Who Made God?

Who made God? How did God make the world? Why does God let bad things happen? Does God love me? If God Made the Universe, Then Who Made God? is a children's book that tackles these commonly asked questions about God. Inside you'll find answers are easy to understand and radical cartoons that bring t...3 points

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The Osgoode Trilogy - Award Winning Legal Mystery Thrillers

When Mary E. Martin said goodbye to changing diapers and saw a lull in her legal practice, she put pen to paper and discovered an outlet to her endless fascination with what humans go through.Using her years of experiencing in the legal system, Martin called upon her memories to let the characters u...3 points

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In Defense Of Food

In In Defense of Food the author, Michael Pollan, expands on something most of us already know but might have forgotten. We should be eating real food.

His simple seven word diet is a mantra each and every one of us should each be repeating many times daily, no matter what the scale tells us, or how...2 points

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Wizard's Daughter

It is the latest release from Coulter as part of her Sherbrooke series of historical romance novels, with a magical twist.It involves a woman with no memory of who she is, going by the name of Rosalind de la Fontaine, who finds herself attracted to the mysterious Nicholas Vail.2 points

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Who is John Galt?

The inspiring main character from Ayn Rand's epic novel, Atlas Shrugged.2 points

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Tom Clancy

Perhaps one of the best Military Fiction Authors in History2 points

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New Discworld Books by Terry Pratchett

Making Money is a newest Terry Pratchett book in the Discworld series, published in September of 2007. It is the second book featuring Moist von Lipwig, and involves the Ankh-Morpork mint and specifically the introduction of paper money to the city.2 points

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, is a story of two women and their lifes in Afghanistan over the past 40 years. Mariam was born an illegal child and was forced to marry Rasheed, an abusive husband at age 15. Rasheed is an ugly, cruel man inside and out. Her husband bro...1 point

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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens is an outspoken atheist and antitheist, and he describes himself as a believer in the Enlightenment values of secularism, humanism and reason. He is also the author of several best selling books. In 2001 he made the claim that organized religion is 'violent, irrational, intolera...1 point

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Book List from "The Colbert Report" with Stephen Colbert

"I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart."' ~ Stephen ColbertWhile this may be true, Stephen has a lot of authors on his show who have written books that I want to read. So here's a list with some other show links as well. Also, if you like the books from The Colbert Report, you mi...1 point

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Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

Can you imagine Steve Martin being called a wallflower? Me neither. But that's the exact word he uses when describing himself in Born Standing Up.The book is well written and he does a good job taking us through his life. I particularly like the way he uses world events as milestones in the book....1 point

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