![]() On the back of the chart-friendly acoustic rock of Out of Time and Automatic For the People, REM foisted the more grungy and uneven Monster on the public in 1994. If anything, the music section of Oxfam has always had it worse. Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin ranked as the third-most donated author in one poll, yet he was listed in the same poll as the bestselling charity shop author. Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones series enjoys a lively karmic cycle. But not everything that appears again doesn’t sell. With 80m copies sold, The Da Vinci Code is the second-most popular book of modern times, so it is no surprise that it turns up in large numbers. In 2015, the second-most unwanted book was The Fault in Our Stars – John Green’s young adult romance, which was recently adapted for film – with JB Priestley’s An Inspector Calls at No 1. The website .uk keeps tabs on which tomes it receives most often. By 2010 it was an “unauthorised” biography of Simon Cowell, alongside The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What it Means by Vince Cable. ![]() In 2007, it was Alastair Campbell’s The Blair Years that topped the chart. Travelodge’s list is a fascinating dip into the ephemera of changing times.
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