There have been several titles that experts have named as “best selling books in history”, such as The Bible or Don Quixote of La Mancha, however, the book has been created for several centuries and there were not always ways to measure which were the most popular works –like Amazon does now– coupled with the level of illiteracy of the time.
There is a long debate among historians about which was the first book in history: whether the first writings in clay, bones or wax and wood tablets from Mesopotamia; the papyrus scroll in Alexandria; those made with bamboo and silk in ancient China or the codices, the truth is that this object has accompanied human beings throughout their lives and, like man, has evolved.
And after the invention of the printing press with movable type in 1440 by the hand of Johannes Gutenbergpassing through bookstores, the increase in literacy, the arrival of the internet and with it the digitization of content, now one of the great challenges is the amount of texts available to read.
With this, technology has facilitated the way of measuring the fame of literary pieces, one of them is the ranking offered by the Amazon platforma list that works as a snapshot of society by recording what readers are “devouring” at a given time.
1. Goodbye to inflammation. How to Prevent Disease, Slow Aging, and Lose Weight (HarperCollins)
Author: Sandra Moñino
2. Something that serves as a light: Supersubmarine: the story of four friends who experienced success and tragedy (First person)
Author: Fernando Navarro
3. Recover your mind, recapture your life
Author: Marian Rojas Estapé
4. Atomic habits: Small changes, extraordinary results (Self-knowledge)
Author:James Clear
5. Destroy this diary. Now in full color (Singular Books)
Author: Keri Smith
6. The crack of silence (SUMA)
Author: Javier Castillo
7. Where you can’t find me (Contemporary Romantic Matchstories)
Author: Tamara Molina
8. BLACKWATER I. The flood: 1 (Blackwater Saga)
Author: Michael Mcdowell
9. How to make good things happen to you: Understand your brain, manage your emotions, improve your life (Personal growth)
Author: Marian Rojas Estapé
10. Comprehensive Periodization: A holistic model for today’s football: from the room to the field
Author: Phd Miguel Ángel Campos Vázquez
*Note: Some books may not have an author because the platform does not provide it.
For buy books on Amazon All you have to do is have an account on said platform and then type the title of the work in the search engine and then click on “buy”. You can add more than one item to your cart and checkout later.
He number of readers in Spain increased gradually since the coronavirus pandemic, managing to consolidate itself among the youngest, according to the report from the Barometer of Reading and Book Purchasing Habits 2023 presented by the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
It details that in the last 10 years the reading rate of Spaniards has increased by 5.7%. 64.8% use their free time to read; However, when it comes to comic book readers, the figure increases to 66.2 percent.
By considering only those that they read for leisure in their free time the percentage was 64.8%, a figure slightly higher than the previous annual measurement and which reaches 66.2% when comic book readers are also added.
When making a comparison with the figures that have been recorded in the last decade, the reading rate in the leisure had an increase of 5.7%; the “frequent readers” they remained at 52.5%; while those considered as “occasional” They have only shown a slight increase of 0.4 percentage points.
Although reading figures have gradually gotten closer to the European averages, the report reveals that there is still a significant number of Spaniards who never read (35.2%). In this regard, 44% indicate that the main reason is that they do not have free time; 30.6% prefer to invest their time in other types of entertainment such as walking, resting or watching movies and series; 29.3% recognized a lack of interest; and 0.9% said they had vision or health problems.
The measurement also shows that women read more than men in a proportion of 69.9% compared to 59.5 percent. By ageit is found that the section with the largest reading population is that between 14 and 24 years old and which represents 74.2% of the total.
