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It\u0092s time for the 2009 bestseller list.\u00a0 These are books purchased last year through this website from readers either going through the Amazon portals on the page (more about which later) or clicking on Amazon links appearing in many of the posts when books are mentioned. As always, these are all the books purchased that are not books MD and I wrote or co-wrote.<\/p>\n
The number one winner going away was Lierre Kieth\u0092s brilliant The Vegetarian Myth<\/em>.\u00a0 If you haven\u0092t read it, grab a copy ASAP.\u00a0 For those of you who don’t know, Lierre was recently the victim of an assault at a San Francisco reading.\u00a0 Masked thugs came out from behind the stage and smashed her in the head and face with pies laced with cayenne pepper.\u00a0 After the assault took place, while Lierre was trying to get the burning pepper out of her eyes, the audience (of mainly vegetarians) cheered.\u00a0 It was truly disgusting.\u00a0 Richard Nikoley and Tom Naughton reported on the assault here<\/a> and here<\/a>.\u00a0 Jimmy Moore has a\u00a0 interview with Lierre about the attack here<\/a>. Tom Naughton proposes a rationale for such behavior here<\/a>.<\/p>\n It appears that militant vegans have secured\u00a0 Lierre’s name and other versions of her name on Twitter and are mounting a vicious smear\u00a0 campaign against her.\u00a0 Purchase her book to fight back.\u00a0 Success is her best revenge.<\/p>\n Here are the books in descending order.<\/p>\n #1 The Vegetarian Myth<\/em><\/a> by Lierre Kieth.\u00a0 My review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n #2 Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)<\/em><\/a> by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.\u00a0 My review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n #3 Good Calories, Bad Calories<\/em><\/a> by Gary Taubes.\u00a0 My review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n #4 Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind<\/em><\/a> by Donald Johanson. My review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n #5 Control Theory<\/em><\/a> by William Glasser My review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n #6 The Brain Trust<\/em><\/a> by Larry McCleary, M.D. My review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n #7 500 Low-Carb Recipes: 500 Recipes from Snacks to Dessert, That the Whole Family Will Love<\/a><\/em> by Dana Carpender<\/p>\n #8 Natural Hormone Balance for Women<\/em><\/a> by Uzzi Reiss.\u00a0 A mention here<\/a>.<\/p>\n #9 How to Cook Everything<\/em><\/a> by Mark Bittman.\u00a0 MD\u0092s review here<\/a> along with her entire list of essential cookbooks.<\/p>\n #10 Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High<\/em><\/a> by Kerry Patterson et al.\u00a0 My review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n #10 Primal Body-Primal Mind <\/em><\/a>by Nora Gedgaudas<\/p>\n #10 The Great Cholesterol Con<\/em><\/a> by Malcolm Kendrick.\u00a0 My review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n #10 The Happiness Hypothesis<\/em><\/a> by Jonathan Haidt My review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The last four books on the list sold exactly the same number of copies, so they all tied for 10th on the list.\u00a0 I listed them alphabetically.<\/p>\n Although not a book, sales of the DVD of Tom Naughton’s brilliant film Fat Head<\/em><\/a> would have put it at #2 on the list.\u00a0 If you haven’t seen this film, order it today.\u00a0 Here’s my review<\/a>.<\/p>\n I want to thank all of you who have ordered not just books but all kinds of things through this site.\u00a0 And I want to encourage you to continue.\u00a0 The small commission I make on each order helps underwrite the maintenance on this site, which is much higher than I would have thought it would be.\u00a0 Plus, I\u0092m still paying off the recent redesign.<\/p>\n For those of you who don\u0092t know what I\u0092m talking about, any time you order a book or a DVD or a CD or anything (groceries, supplements, tee-shirts, whatever) through Amazon.com, I get a small commission on your order.\u00a0 But I get this only if you go through one of the Amazon portals on this blog or MD\u0092s blog or anywhere on the website.\u00a0 What is an Amazon portal?\u00a0 If you click the picture of The Six-Week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle<\/em> at the upper right of this post, you will be taken to the Six-Week Cure page on Amazon.\u00a0 If you\u0092re looking for something else, just type it in the search window, click the \u0091Go\u0092 button to the right, and you will be taken to wherever you want to go, and anything you purchase once you get there will earn me a tiny commission.<\/p>\n This whine for help with Amazon is my own version of those awful PBS fundraising telethons.\u00a0 The difference is that here it doesn\u0092t cost you anything; you simply have to purchase whatever you were going to purchase through Amazon anyway by going through one of the portals on this blog.\u00a0 And your free programming will continue.<\/p>\n As some of you may have noticed, I finally removed the tacky Google ads that were at the bottom of each post.\u00a0 I didn\u0092t even realize they were there until I was having lunch with Mark Sisson one day, and he asked me what my relationship with Atkins Nutritionals was.\u00a0 I told him I had no relationship with them.\u00a0 He told me he figured I did because a fairly prominent banner ad for Atkins Nutritionals appeared at the bottom of each of my posts.\u00a0 I checked myself, and, sure enough, there were the ads.\u00a0 I looked into it and found out that I was making about $45 per month for these ads (not all were Atkins, but most were) so I ditched them altogether.\u00a0 Had I been making $1500 per month on these ads, I may have had second thoughts, but as it was, I had no problem giving them the ax.<\/p>\n So, at this point, no ads are cluttering the pages of my blog or MD\u0092s blog.\u00a0 Other, of course, than those for our own books, which are the previously mentioned Amazon portals.\u00a0 Order early and order often.<\/p>\n