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I never check the NYT list except now to click on the link in this thread. I read Gone Girl and Wool Omnibus because they were recommended by friends, but I had no idea they were on any list.
I feel gratitude to authors who provide me hours of happiness and that makes me loyal. I always buy the latest from a few bestselling authors - John Grisham, James Lee Burke, Michael Connelly, Lawrence Block - because they make me happy much more often than not. I am delighted with any further adventures of Harry Bosch, Dave Robicheaux, and Matthew Scudder.
I am equally loyal to perhaps less famous authors, such as Patricia Ryan, Kerry Greenwood, D.B. Reynolds, and Ann Parker. It is coincidence if these 'loyalty' purchases appear on any popularity lists.
I own more TBR books than I may live to read so I have no motivation to even care about current best-sellers.
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