Over the last couple months, most mentions of Amazon here elicit two or three emails from readers asking what kind of books sell well on there.

I’m certainly a long ways from being an expert on that subject but, over time, I’ve been able to develop an ‘eye’ in some genres of what has a fair chance of doing well on Amazon. However. whenever I try to answer those questions, once I get beyond ‘non-fiction’, I have a hard time generalizing what kind of books I look for. After I hit the ’send email’ button I’m always left with the feeling that I haven’t really been a whole lot of help.

Yesterday evening was the cut-off time for my last two weeks of Amazon sales. I thought I’d list the titles of what I sold on Amazon during the previous two week period in the hope that seeing some actual titles would help interested readers get a better idea of what, for me, generally does well. I’m just cutting and pasting these out of my Amazon stats page, so in some cases, if the book has a long title, the last word or two may be cut off.

So, here goes.

• Perspectives on the World Christian Movement : A Reader
• Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing
• Bioethics And The Law
• Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones
• Yoga for Your Type
• Public Relations: Critical Debates and Contemporary Problems
• Medical Terminology Systems: A Body Systems Approach
• Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art
• The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to
• Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere: An Illustrated Introduction
• Native Florida Plants: Low-Maintenance Landscaping and Gardening
• Modern Indian Psychology
• Ecoagriculture: Strategies To Feed The World And Save Wild Biodiversity
• Literary India: Comparative Studies in Aesthetics, Colonialism, and Culture
• Adult All-in-one Course: Alfred’s Basic Adult Piano Course, Book 2
• Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
• The Origins of Anti-Semitism: Attitudes toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian
• The Secret History of Freemasonry: Its Origins and Connection to the Knights
• The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography
• The First Five Years of Marriage (Focus on the Family Books)
• Doing Honest Work in College: How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, and…
• Applying Career Development Theory to Counseling
• Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Galen to Animal Rights
• Conflict Management: A Communication Skills Approach
• Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History
• Jeeves & Wooster - The Complete Series [DVD]
• A Rabbinic Commentary on the New Testament: The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and
• A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking (I sold 4 copies of this book)
• The Exemplary Husband: A Biblical Perspective
• All Kinds of Minds: A Young Student’s Book About Learning Abilities and
• CogLab on a CD
• Up from Eden, New Edition: A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution
• Chemistry Selected Solutions Manual
• A New Eusebius: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church to Ad 337
• Personal Finance: Planning and Implementing Your Financial Goals
• Celtic Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality)
• Led Zeppelin Remasters [Original recording remastered] [Box set] [Audio CD]
• Creeds, Councils and Controversies
• Folklore, Myths, and Legends
• The World of the Trapp Family
• The Economy of Esteem: An Essay on Civil and Political Society
• Readings in Christian Ethics, vol. 1: Theory and Method
• Readings in Christian Ethics, vol. 2: Issues and Applications
• The Trial: A History, from Socrates to O. J. Simpson
• A Smile in the Mind
• The Grunt Padre
• A New Handbook of Christian Theology
• Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics
• Sight, Sound, Motion with infotrac: Applied Media Aesthetics
• Coaching Volleyball Successfully
• American Law in the 20th Century
• Business Law Today, Standard Edition: Text and Summarized Cases–E-Commerce
• Parking Structures: Planning, Design, Construction, Maintenance, and Repair

The above list may lean somewhat heavily toward scholarly religious material because a few weeks ago a local priest passed away and his personal library was donated to one of the local thrift stores and I bought a lot of them. That is, however, a genre that generally does fairly well on Amazon.

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