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These are the 10 best-selling books of the decade.

>> No.14395199

https://lithub.com/these-are-the-10-best-selling-books-of-the-decade/

>> No.14395438

>>14395197
I am going to kill myself

>> No.14395457

is the girl woth the dragon tattoo /lit/?

>> No.14395458

>>14395457
yeah, it is pseud af.

>> No.14395463

>>14395438
Be aloof anon

>> No.14395493

>>14395197
this is not at all surprising and i am completely indifferent.
how well something sells is not a measurement of artistic value

>> No.14395530

>>14395493
50 Shades of Grey is based upon a theme that works. It's an SM fantasy you would not like to live, but read about. SM isn't about real dominance, but played out. In the case of the book it's both REAL dominance in life outside of the bedroom in FICTION. Gotta hand it to E L James. There is some artistic value in this crappy work as art.

>> No.14395541

>>14395530
Sm?

>> No.14395549

>>14395541
sadistic-masochistic according to De Sade (famous authour)

>> No.14395553

yeah and crazy frog reached number 1 at one point, "best selling" means very little

>> No.14395603

Why aren’t men reading?

>> No.14395639
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3 are written for exclusively female audiences
3 literally have the word "girl" in the title
The rest have a female main character

Maybe if men still read, this list would look different, but sadly men these days waste their time paying video games and watching porn.

>> No.14395648

>>14395603
This, it's funny when people argue women are smarter since they read more.
I'm sure reading 50 shades of grey is a lot more enlightening than Kant.
At the very least men read science fiction that at least usually tackles logistics, engineering problems and such things, not how to much one get spanked before saying the safe word.

>> No.14395652

>>14395648
I'm sure you can make not getting too much spanked an engineering problem.

>> No.14396109

>>14395639
I wonder if this was any different for the top selling books of 1990-2000

>> No.14396136

>>14395530
>It's an SM fantasy you would not like to live, but read about.
It is not.

>> No.14396149

>>14396136
bro, I haven't read the book, but my trustable sources tell me the male abuses the female in the book outside the bedroom as a sadist would do in a bedroom. that's what I meant.

>> No.14396166

>>14395639
The 50 shades books are literally porn. It's just that for whatever reason women are more likely to consume porn as text than men are

>> No.14396227

>>14395648
cope

>> No.14396235

>>14395648
Did you have an aneurysm? Reread what you just typed, if you don’t see any problems then seek a doctor

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>>14395603
>modern "men"

>> No.14396246

>>14395197
The most notable thing to me about the list is that they are all from early in the decade.

>> No.14396247

>>14396243
Incel alert

>> No.14396251

>>14395639
Men make these decisions. The same men whose vote is equal to yours and mine. The same men that have allowed this decay.
Put little faith in man, because only God can save them.

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>>14396247

>> No.14396359

>>14395603
They watch sports instead

>> No.14396362

>>14396251
>The same men whose vote is equal to yours and mine
As it should be

>> No.14397083

>>14396362
LOL kys brainlet, absolute cope

>> No.14397095

>>14396109
Most likely not

>> No.14397526

Why does no one want to read the great literature of the past? The books that have withstood the test of time are objectively better than anything written today.

>> No.14397550

>>14397526

>withstood the test of time
>no one want to read

Sounds like they actually didn't

>> No.14397552

>>14397550
>>>/r/eddit

>> No.14397657

>>14396246
because they've had more time to sell more copies numbnuts

>> No.14398401

>>14395197
sounds based to me

>> No.14398430

>>14395648
>At the very least men read science fiction that at least usually tackles logistics, engineering problems and such things
this doesn't describe a single person i know

>> No.14398459

>>14396149
Well you're retarded then because you're chatting shit about a book you haven't read and a lifestyle you don't understand, it absolutely exists outside the bedroom for many partners into this.

>> No.14398476

>>14395639
video games are better than books

>> No.14398580

>>14398459
course it exists. yet I prefer to define healthy SM as something like a game, nothing that has anything to do with your job career. few partners are the boss and his wage-slave. at least not all 20 million readers, right.

>> No.14398599

>>14398430
>this doesn't describe a single person i know
name one person you know.

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>>14395438
Same. Let's meet up in the Bardo and coordinate our reincarnations so we end up as souls mates.
One of us can be a qt gril on the reroll and we can live innawoods.

>> No.14398663

>>14398476
Killing yourself is better than continuing to post

>> No.14398694

>>14398663
cope boomer

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>>14398476
This. Any book published in the past decade is immediately outclassed by any one of the Danganronpa games, both in entertainment value and literary value. It’s a sad day for literature when a fucking anime visual novel is the most well written book of the decade

>> No.14398763

>>14398599
Christopher poole

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>>14395603
Too busy cooming and consooming

>> No.14398842

It's on par shit with the film and vidya top sellers.

>> No.14398899

>>14398842
Yeah, but nobody cares about that. This is /lit/. Just because these problems exist in other media doesn’t make them ok in literature

>> No.14399196

>>14397526
they do, moron. that shit just doesn’t show up on lists like these because there’s 100+ years of used copies abound

this list is not a ”problem”. look up the bestsellers of the early 20th century and there’ll be stuff you’ve never heard of because it was – surprise – the same type of flash-in-the-pan pop lit you see here. this is like complaining about cardi b being on top of the charts or whatever

>> No.14399242

>>14395603
I think the average guy today doesn't even know where to start reading.

If he goes straight into classics he'll be bored and maybe overwhelmed, if he reads bestsellers he'll be reading chick lit, etc.

>> No.14399555

Quantity is not a sign of quality.
Top list are always garbage.

>> No.14399566

>>14395603
>Buying books = reading

>> No.14399587

>>14395197
Women haven't been writing good books because men "oppressed" them, and then they're "free" and what comes out?

>> No.14400028

>>14395197
Do only women buy books?

>> No.14400039

>>14398763
isn't that some kind of USB drive?

>> No.14400104

>>14395197
What would be the equivalent of this shit for men? Stephen King? Or what.

>> No.14400166

>>14400104
Stephen King is actually decent though. Nothing special, but entertaining at the very least without resorting to smut or power fantasy shit

>> No.14400183

>>14395457
Don't. Trust me. Just don't. Watch the Fincher movie. Don't bother with the book. It's fucking garbage

>> No.14400638

>>14399242
This is true, but I question if the average man today is even truly aware of the classics as a reading option. I was having a conversation of work recently when books came up. I mentioned something about having to read the classics in Latin when I was younger as I went to a private catholic school. They told me that not only did they not have to learn Latin in their public schools, they didn’t read any classics at all, nor where they really aware of what sort of works the term Classics implied. They’re all in their thirties and this is at a well-respected University by the way.

>> No.14401191

>>14395553
LOL Based As Fuck
>>14395639
NO thats right!!!
>>14396166
Cause women are bigger whores. Even men by playboy for the articles.

>> No.14401200

>>14398459
>>14398580
>healthy SM
There is nothing healthy about SM. You are going to hell and do not deserve to live. I would publicly execute you if I could.

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14401277

women did this

>> No.14401469

>>14396166
>tfw only enjoy written porn.

>> No.14402481

>>14395639
Name a single book published in the last ten years that a man should read. Besides, when it comes to consumerism, women lead by a big margin, have you ever seen a woman/man shoe collection?

>> No.14402671

>>14398756
>Danganrnpa
I actually played this and no or isn't. Visual novels have no literary value. They are mostly soft porn and bad dialogue written by manchildren.

>> No.14402697

>>14398756
Bruh. I love the games but the writing is super cliche. There are shitton of books with better writing, you just like animu girls.

>> No.14402784

>>14400104
vidya game novels, manga, comic books
onions boy shit in general

>> No.14402788

>>14395197
I'm surprised no twilight

>> No.14402799

>>14399242
Perhaps something in between? I got into reading when I picked up Dune one day.

>> No.14403036

>>14397552
why did you redirect me to adult requests?

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>>14395197

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>>14395197
>from the decade
>adds not 1, but 2 books from 2008
Welp...This is awkward

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>check out a book in a store
>the blurb on the back cover is an excerpt of dialogue

>> No.14403641

>>14401200
Based

>> No.14403829

>All ten books are about women being abused, neglected, or dying

I thought /lit/ would be happier about this