Voted - Need to explain.
I read what interests me. Best seller status might catch my eye with something I'm unlikely to discover on my own; the same applies to short-lists of award winners like the Giller or Man Booker prizes.
But I tend to read a wide range of mysteries (not thrillers, not horror, not vampire, but mysteries almost always with someone standing in as a detective) and these generally don't make it onto best seller lists. So -- James Peterson, for example, is too gory for me and while he writes "detectivish mysteries", they are more thrillers and they are not my cup of tea.
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