Seven Habits of Highly Effective People helps self to top secondhand sales chart

Stephen R Covey’s runaway bestseller from 1989 is online retailer AbeBooks’s bestseller of the last 15 years

As well as making sure to “Be Proactive” and “Begin with the End in Mind”, Highly Effective People may also have something of an eye for a bargain, it seems, after it emerged that the bestselling used book of the last 15 years was Stephen R Covey’s smash-hit 1989 self-help title The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

Covey’s title, which “presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centred approach for solving personal and professional problems”, topped a list compiled by used books marketplace AbeBooks of its top 100 bestsellers around the world since 2000. It came in ahead of a host of classic titles, with Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird in second place, F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in third, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God in fourth and JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye in fifth.

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