Amazon’s best-selling books of 2013 tell us a lot about America:
1. We’re very confident that we’re good at a lot of things. We’re just not quite sure what they are.
Tom Rath: “Strengths Finder 2.0.”
2. We treat women so unequally in the workplace that they’re starting to form support groups.
Sheryl Sandberg: “Lean In.”
3. We have wimpy kids.
Jeff Kinney: “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.”
4. We like history, as long as long as it deifies our forefathers and justifies American exceptionalism.
Rush Limbaugh: “Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.”
5. We’re desperate for guidance from Jesus, even if it’s just an author named Sarah Young pretending to be Jesus.
Sarah Young: “Jesus Calling.”
6. We prefer Dan Brown’s “Inferno” to Dante’s “Inferno.”
Dan Brown: “Inferno.”
7. We really miss Harry Potter.
Rick Riordan: “House of Hades.”
8. We’ll tolerate the occasional work of actual literature as long as it’s super-short and there’s a movie.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The Great Gatsby.”
9. We still like to be told what matters by very serious old white men in blazers.
Charles Krauthammer: “Things That Matter.”
10. We like science, as long as it proves that heaven is real.
Eben Alexander: “Proof of Heaven.”
11. We’re pretty sure Jesus was a Tea Partier.
Bill O’Reilly: “Killing Jesus.”
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