Dan Brown tops "most donated" authors list says Oxfam
03 September 2010 09:26
Charity givers donated more Dan Brown books to Oxfam than any other author but he was only number 10 on the list for most books sold, the charity's annual survey revealed today.
Unwanted copies of books including The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons pushed Brown to the top of the most donated authors list, ahead of crime writers Ian Rankin and Patricia Cornwell.
Rankin, the prolific author of the Detective Inspector Rebus series, came top of the most sold list.
He was followed by Swedish author Stieg Larsson, who penned the Millennium trilogy, and big screen favourites JK Rowling and Stephenie Meyer, responsible for the Harry Potter and Twilight series.
Meanwhile, Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson became the first non-fiction author to make the annual survey's top 10 most donated list, at number eight.
The charity's trading director David McCullough said: "The survey illustrates the number of current titles available in Oxfam shops sitting alongside collector's items and classic volumes.
"Everyone expects to find Shakespeare and the Brontes in Oxfam shops, but our shoppers are just as likely to pick up a book from the Twilight series or one of the Stieg Larsson trilogy."
Oxfam is Europe's biggest high street retailer of second-hand books and the third-biggest bookseller in the UK.
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