Amazon China's book sales have been released for this year and it came with some surprises: third or second-tier cities located in the south of China made the majority of the top ten list.

Amazon China's Vice President Shi Jianjun thinks this may be due to the fact that life in the big city is much too hectic to take time off to read, and that residents of big cities like Shanghai and Beijing have much greater access to information than the smaller cities do.

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Below is the list of Chinese cities that read, bought, and searched for books in Amazon China's list:

1. Suzhou: The Journey of Flower, Criminal Minds, Amoeba Operating
   

2. Hefei: Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece, High School English Grammar Version, A Brief History of Time
   

3. Kunming: Secret Garden, The Miracle of the Grocery, The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
   

4. Jinan: Xinghuo CET-4 past exam papers, Xinghuo CET-6 past exam papers and mock test papers
   

5. Ningbo: Secret Garden, The Miracle of the Grocery, The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
   

6. Chongqing: The Miracle of the Grocery, Wolf Totem, Secret Garden
   

7. Zhengzhou: Kite Runner, Wolf Totem, Your Loneliness, Glorious Defeat
   

8. Changsha: Secret Garden, The Miracle of the Grocery, The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
   

9. Foshan: Secret Garden, The Miracle of the Grocery, The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
   

10. Hangzhou: Secret Garden, The Miracle of the Grocery, The Storied Life of AJ Fikry

Chinese consumers have recently demonstrated strong cross-border buying power as their spending on the overseas sites of Amazon.com saw explosive growth in the first 10 months of this year.

Amazon China is hoping to exceed such performance in 2016.

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