Poutling posted:

Wow... 2 Ayn Rand novels and L Ron Hubbard as top 3. That list is nightmarishly horrendous.

I think no matter what you look at the general populace is always going to skew to a certain demographic. I tend to ignore that stuff and go for recommendations from reviewers that I actually trust and stick to reading only 3 or 4 star reviews with detailed criticism because those are the ones that will actually give me an good representation of what the novel in question is like.