...don't go to your neighborhood bookstore.
Bookstores typically have a section called "Bestsellers" - mostly located near the entrance to the store, targeting the fad-conscious, non-enterprising reader. Books in this section are the ones the store wants to sell to you and has little to do with sales activity (how else can you explain finding "Black Swan" there. That is not a book picked up by the masses). A definitive direction towards bestsellers can be found on the sidewalks with vendors who sell pirated books. Laws of economics demand that they invest in books that are greatly in demand (low inventory risk, which is compounded by the possibility of police raid and ultimate confiscation). Yes - they also know how to place the better-bestsellers near the edges of their spread-outs (ask for "The Last Moghul" by Dalrympyle and it will take a while to for the stall owner to fish it out from a remote sack).
The most obvious things may not be always found at the most obvious places.
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