Our book made it to Amazon's "Best of 2006" list

Amazon put out their "Best of 2006" lists yesterday, and one of our Java books is in the Top Ten Computer Books list (we're #4 on the Top Ten Customer Favorites right below Dave and David's Rails book). I'm usually uncomfortable making the "oh aren't we special" posts, but this one is an exception because it was my co-hort Bert who did most of the updates on this new Java 5 edition, and he did a wonderful job.

I think the only big parts I did were Serialization (which I've been head over heels for since they added it to version 1.1), and the new Generics. The rest of the new (300+) added pages were Bert's doing, so... congratulations Bert.

This is the fourth straight year we've had a book in Amazon Top Ten Computer Books list, but this is the first time a non-Head First book made it. Thank you so much to all who've helped support the book since it first came out, especially to all the folks in the Javaranch SCJP forum who know more about what we meant when we wrote it than we do! (and thanks also to the 220 people who put put up Amazon US reviews on that book. They DO make a difference.)

And congratulations to all the other great books on the lists... including Robert and Shel's Naked Conversations which was named to the Top Ten Editor's Choice list. (Amazon puts out two year-end lists, "Customer Favorites"--which ours is on (and I think is based solely on sales) and the "Editor's Choice" list.)