Amazon Loves Diet Books

Amazon.com is celebrating it's 10 year anniversary, and has listed it's top 25 "Hall of Fame" authors.

Here is the list (emphasis added):

1. J.K. Rowling
2. Spencer Johnson
3. Nora Roberts
4. Dan Brown
5. Dr. Seuss
6. John Grisham
7. Stephen King
8. J.R.R. Tolkien
9. Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
10. Jim Collins
11. Phil McGraw
12. Robert Atkins
13. C.S. Lewis
14. Mitch Albom
15. Ken Blanchard
16. James Patterson
17. Stephen R. Covey
18. Mary Pope Osborne
19. Marcus Buckingham
20. Lemony Snicket
21. John C. Maxwell
22. Janet Evanovich
23. Robert T. Kiyosaki
24. Arthur Agatston
25. Tom Clancy

Three of those authors, Phil McGraw, Robert Atkins, and Arthur Agatston have written diet books. It just goes to show what an enormous industry the diet market is.

Robert Atkins I understand - despite how you feel about his diet - it was revolutionary and he caused many to rethink the carb-heavy paradigm of the USDA food pyramid. Dr Phil... well you either love him or hate him - but number 11?? As a special gift from Amazon - we get to read how Dr Phil adopted his dog.

Lastly, there is Dr Arthur Agatston - author of the South Beach Diet. Quite frankly, the only reason he is there is due to the massive spending that Rodale has lavished on pushing the South Beach Diet. It's astonishing that a cardio doctor who wrote a single diet book sits in the same list as authors like C.S. Lewis, or J.R.R. Tolkien - but there you go.

Maybe writing your own diet book isn't such a bad idea after all.

Thanks to Jennette/PastaW for pointing this out.

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