Bestselling Used Books of 2006

Used books are the backbone of AbeBooks, and it's always interesting to see the diversity of books that are being sought after and bought on the site. Here are the top 50 used books purchased on AbeBooks this year.

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1. The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown
First Published in 2003

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2. In Cold Blood

Truman Capote
First Published in 1965

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3. Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom
First Published in 1997

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4. The South Beach Diet

Arthur Agatson
First Published in 2003

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5. Freakonomics

Steven Levitt
First Published in 2005

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6. The World is Flat

Thomas Friedman
First Published in 2005; Updated in 2006

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7. Who Moved My Cheese?

Spencer Johnson
First Published in 1998

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8. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey
First Published in 1989

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9. To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee
First Published in 1960

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10. The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini
Published in 2003

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11. The Purpose-Driven Life, Rick Warren
12. How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life, Kaavya Viswanathan
13. Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
14. Night, Elie Wiesel
15. Getting the Love You Want, Harville Hendrix
16. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
17. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling
18. Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
19. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
20. Marley & Me, John Grogan
21. Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
22. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
23. Collapse, Jared Diamond
24. Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher
25. Dime! Uno, Fabian Samaniego
26. A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
27. The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
28. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
29. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers, Lynn Troyka

31. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
32. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
33. His Needs, Her Needs, Willard F. Harley
34. Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch
35. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
36. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert T. Kiyosaki
37. Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln
38. My Life, Bill Clinton
39. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
40. The Road Less Traveled, Scott M. Peck
41. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
42. The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
43. March, Geraldine Brooks
44. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
45. The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
46. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
47. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
48. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
49. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, Adele Faber
50. I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron