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50% That Candace Bushnell’s One Fifth Avenue (Sept 23) will be referred to in future studies of 21st-century consumerism.

0% That a presidential candidate will declare Stephenie Meyer his favorite writer during the final campaign stretch.

35% That Nelson DeMille’s The Gate House (Oct 28), a tale of murder and manners on Long Island, will knock Daniel Silva’s Moscow Rules out of the top spot on the New York Times best-seller list.

85% That no one will care about Savannah Knoop’s Girl Boy Girl (Oct 1), which explains how she became the face of fictional author JT LeRoy.

25% That Malcolm Gladwell’s study of the successful (The Outliers, Nov 18) will elicit even more blogosphere resentment than Chuck Klosterman’s Downtown Owl (Sept 16).

45% That Oprah’s Book Club followers will call in sick at least one day during the week of November 10, which will see the publication of new novels by both Toni Morrison and Wally Lamb.

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