Not giving the people what they want

It's a paradoxical category: The most popular books that publishers have deemed not worthy of publishing -- that is to say, the out-of-print books that are most in demand. Ron Charles, the fiction reviewer for the Washington Post, offers commentary on the top five here, while Bookfinder.com presents the complete list.

The takeaway: If Madonna wrote a book about knitting or carpentry -- a soft-core book about knitting or carpentry-- we're talking bestseller.

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