The Bestselling Books of 2005

Via The Book Standard.

Unsurprisingly, Mr. Potter is at #1. Other books of interest to us grubby genre types include:

• Eldest by Christopher Paolini (at an amazing #10)
  
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (one of the best depictions of an "alien" I've seen in years) at #17
  
• Maguire's Wicked at #21
  
• The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket, #25
  
• what appears to be a one-volume Chronicles of Narnia, #26
  
• another Harry Potter book in paperback, #34
  
• similarly, Eragon comes in at #37
  
• The Time Traveler's Wife, #51
  
• yet another Harry Potter, #63
  
• State of Fear by Crichton, #65
  
• Artemis Fowl, #83
  
• The Taking, Dean Koontz, #90
  
• another Lemony Snicket at #94
  
• another Harry Potter at #96
  
• Knife of Dreams by Jordan, #98 -- the first adult genre title on the list
  
• Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, #111 (the first SF book, for those of you counting)
  
• Dragonology, #121
  
• more Lemony Snicket, #125
  
• another state of State of Fear, #131
  
• Son of a Witch, #132
  
• more Harry, #133
  
• more Lemony, #140
  
• Narnia again at #151
  
• Harry Harry Harry, #154
  
• Lemony #184
  
• Lemony #186
  
• Harry #195
  
• Lemony rounding us out at #200

Please note: the closest things to SF are a Star Wars novel and Mr. Crichton (who has now suddenly discovered that scaring people with science is wrong). Not that it ever was much different, of course. But even the big, popular skiffy is a minority taste.

Edited 9:25 PM January 7, 2006:
The link at the top of this post, due to a bizarre cut-and-paste accident, originally led to a page describing an upcoming David Weber book. I'm going to pretend this was a test that you've all failed. {gives stern look}

As long as I'm editing, let me note that I missed at least two SFnal-related books, 1984 and Lord of the Flies, at numbers 193 and 194.

This has been a test of the emergency blog repair system. If this had been an actual blog emergency, you would have heard about it somewhere far more high-profile than Antick Musings. This is only a test.