You may have noticed that the search box on Amazon recently added an “auto-complete” feature. So if you start typing in letters, it starts suggesting things that begin with those letters. It’s probably safe to assume that it suggests the most frequently searched words, so, if we look at Amazon’s book section we can type in letters and discover, for each letter of the alphabet, the most popular searches on Amazon. Or, if you like, the ABCs of Amazon (a peek into the reading habits of America and, like it or not, a primer for what’s popular in the world of books):
- Angels & Demons
- Breaking Dawn (The first of several Stephenie Meyer appearances)
- Charlaine Harris
- Dan Brown (no surprise here)
- Eclipse (Another for Meyer)
- Freakonomics
- GRE
- Harry Potter (as if there was any doubt)
- ISBN number search (funny because ISBNs work in the search box)
- James Patterson
- Kindle (natch)
- Lora Leigh
- My Sister’s Keeper (by Jodi Picoult)
- Nora Roberts
- Outliers (by Malcolm Gladwell)
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Zombies!)
- Quilting
- Renegade
- Stephenie Meyer
- Twilight (more Meyer)
- Uglies
- Vampire (You can chalk this one up to Meyer too)
- Wicked
- X-Men
- Yoga
- Zane
(Amazon has been known to personalize and regularly adjust its results, so your Amazon alphabet may vary.)
