A Look at Bestsellers, 1990-1996

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In fiction, 8 authors account for half of the 105 entries; 3 authors account for over half of that half

Fiction is fairly homogenous (interesting connections will be noted); non-fiction is more telling

A number of books focus on:

• Amassing and managing capital
  
• Self-help/psychology with a spiritual (but not always Christian) focus
  
• Confict in the middle east
  
• The right wing agenda

Books of interest, year by year

1990, Non-Fiction

1. Financial Self-Defense:  How to Win the Fight for Financial Freedom, Charles J. Givens
2. Homecoming:  Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, Bradshaw John
3. Wealth Without Risk:  How to Develop a Personal Fortune Without Going Out on a Limb, J. Charles Givens
4. An American Life:  An Autobiography, Ronald Reagan
5. Megatrends 2000:  Ten New Directions for the 1990s, John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene
6. By Way of Deception:  The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer, Victor Ostrovsky

 

1991, Fiction

1. The Sum of All Fears, Tom Clancy

 

1991, Non-Fiction

4.  Under Fire:  An American Story, Oliver North and William Novak
5.  Final Exit:  The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying, Derek Humphry
7.  More Wealth Without Risk, Charles J. Givens
10.  Financial Self-Defense,Charles J. Givens

1992, Non-Fiction

1.  The Way Things Ought to Be, Rush Limbaugh
2.  It Doesn’t Take a Hero:  The Autobiography:  Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
5.  A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson
10.  Sex, Madonna
13.  More Wealth Without Risk, Charles J. Givens
15.  Creating Love, John Bradshaw

1993, Non-Fiction

1.  See, I Told You So, Rush Limbaugh
4.  Embraced by the Light, Betty J. Eadie
5.  Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, Deepak Chopra
7.  Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray
11.  The Way Things Ought to Be, Rush Limbaugh
15.  Further Along the Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck

1994, Fiction

3.  The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield

1994, Non-Fiction

2. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray
3.  Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Pope John Paul II
5.  The Book of Virtues, William J. Bennett
7.  Embraced by the Light, Betty J. Eadie
13.  Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush
17.  What Your Mother Couldn’t Tell You…, John Gray
19.  Standing Firm, Dan Quayle
23.  First Things First, Stephen R. Covey and A.        Roger Miller
24.  The Hot Zone, Richard Preston

1995, Fiction

6.  The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield

1995, Non-Fiction

1.  Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray
4.  The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra
7.   Mars and Venus in the Bedroom, John Gray
8.  To Renew America, Newt Gingrich
10.  The Moral Compass, William J. Bennett
11.  The Book of Virtues, William J. Bennett

1996, Non-Fiction

2. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray
4.  Simple Abundance, Sarah Ban Breathnach
11.  Gift and Mystery, Pope John Paul II
13.  Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, Al Franken

 

 

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