[Cadaverous Pallor]

Maybe I don't understand the purpose of the list, but to me, it's represented as the best selling books in the country, period. In my ideal world, the existence of a Animation category should not prevent an animated film from winning Best Picture also. Same goes for foreign films - it took many years for one of those to break that "barrier".

I thought the NYT list was supposed to represent what America was reading, and it doesn't. If it is reserved for Nora Roberts and Janet Evanovich, I guess I can completely discount it, as I don't read them.

If that tidbit about Howard Stern is true as well, I can't believe that the list is still the standard. Boo, fie, a pox on them.

As for classifying the book as YA - there's still lots of room for debate there. Our library went with a Juvenile classification, which I completely disagree with. Add in the fact that our Young Adult classification is a subset of Adult, and things get even trickier. I'm sure it's different everywhere.

In any case, and IMHO, if Don't let the pigeon drive the bus is outselling the latest "Cat solves a murder mystery with DEATH in the title", then they should tell us that.