Top Ten, I guess

The very local paper, delivered sporadically, announces the top ten bestsellers at the nearest Barnes and Noble:

1. Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine by Glenn Beck
2. The Shackby William Young
3. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Timeby Greg Mortenson
4. The Time Traveler's Wifeby Audrey Niffenegger
5. Eclipse (The Twilight Saga)by Stephenie Meyer
6. Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Croniesby Michelle Malkin
7. Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)by Stephenie Meyer
8. Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Dead and Alive: A Novelby Dean Koontz
9. From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 8)by Charlaine Harris
10. Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury
    

I've never read any of these books, and with the exception of Fahrenheit 451, I can really take or leave the whole list. The political books seem to confirm that we are indeed in a red pocket of a blue area in a red state. I've always been of the opinion that most political books, regardless of authorial affiliation, should be published as big pamphlets: easily read, easily discarded. Why waste resources printing them in hardcover? Who buys a political diatribe as a keepsake?