Article: What the world is reading. (best-selling book lists from Mexico and Brazil)(Brief Article)

NOWHERE are bestseller lists compiled on oath, although in some places the rules of this approximate science are more stringent than elsewhere. In Latin America, Veja, a widely read Brazilian magazine, publishes a weekly list. In Mexico, nobody puts out a similarly respected list, so our correspondent in Mexico city constructed a listing based on inquiries at two of the capital's leading bookshops. The two Mexican lists are offered here with a consumer warning to all that they should be taken as broad indicators of reading trends, not strict or conventional bestseller rankings.

One striking difference between these lists and those in Europe, say, or North America is ...

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