Novels are more popular than ever.
Choosing novels over non-fiction is a long-term
trend; fiction has climbed from 67% of the titles in USA TODAY's weekly
top 150 in 2007 to 78% last year. And the
reason the retiree sitting in the beach chair next to yours and the
businesswoman relaxing in the airport lounge are reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? We're craving that "Calgon, take me away" moment.
"People
are interested in escape," says Carol Fitzgerald of the Book Report
Network, websites for book discussions. "In a number of pages, the story
will open, evolve and close, and a lot of what's going on in the world
today is not like that. You've got this encapsulated escape that you can
enjoy."
Non-fiction's downward slide — there
were only five titles among 2011's top 20 best-selling books — can be
blamed in part on the Internet, Fitzgerald says. "If you want to examine
an issue, you can easily Google the topic and come at it 10 different
ways in five minutes. That's the way it is with social media." (Read entire article.)
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