Best-selling Books
Contemporary: WEEK OF May 22, 2011
| THIS WEEK |
LAST WEEK | BOOK TITLE |
WEEKS ON LIST |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Horoscopes for the Dead (Random House) | 10 |
| 2 | 2 | The Best of It (paperback) (Grove Press) | 11 |
| 3 | 10 | Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | 4 |
| 4 | – | We Don't Know We Don't Know (Graywolf Press) | 4 |
| 5 | 8 | Swan (Beacon Press) | 38 |
| 6 | 4 | Thirst (paperback) (Beacon Press) | 193 |
| 7 | 7 | Leavings (paperback) (Counterpoint) | 13 |
| 7 | – | Like Shining From Shook Foil (Press 53) | 1 |
| 8 | 3 | Life on Mars (Graywolf Press ) | 3 |
| 9 | 9 | New and Selected Poems: Volume Two (paperback) (Beacon Press) | 211 |
| 10 | 5 | Evidence (paperback) (Beacon Press) | 36 |
| 11 | 25 | Fall Higher (Copper Canyon Press ) | 7 |
| 12 | 6 | The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (paperback) (Random House) | 213 |
| 13 | – | The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors' House (University of Wisconsin Press) | 2 |
| 13 | – | Elephants & Butterflies (Boa Editions Ltd.) | 1 |
| 14 | 11 | Ballistics (paperback) (Random House) | 68 |
| 15 | 19 | Human Chain (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | 35 |
| 16 | 17 | Red Bird (paperback) (Beacon Press) | 114 |
| 17 | 16 | The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 (paperback) (Ecco) | 124 |
| 18 | 8 | The Shadow of Sirius (paperback) (Copper Canyon Press) | 90 |
| 19 | 23 | Newspaper Blackout (Harper Perennial) | 43 |
| 20 | 24 | The Hunger Moon (Knopf) | 9 |
| 21 | 12 | Flies (Copper Canyon Press) | 5 |
| 22 | 15 | Here and Now (W. W. Norton & Company) | 2 |
| 23 | 18 | Thread (New Directions) | 2 |
| 23 | – | Migration: New & Selected Poems (paperback) (Copper Canyon Press) | 51 |
| 24 | 22 | The Apple Trees at Olema (paperback) (Ecco) | 5 |
| 25 | – | Northerners (New Issues Poetry & Prose) | 1 |
| 26 | 14 | Talking into the Ear of a Donkey (W. W. Norton & Company) | 5 |
| 27 | – | Hollywood & God (University Of Chicago Press) | 1 |
| 27 | 29 | Blue Iris: Poems and Essays (Beacon Press) | 148 |
| 28 | 25 | Lighthead (Penguin) | 34 |
| 28 | – | The Mad Farmer Poems (Counterpoint) | 35 |
| 29 | – | A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (Nightboat) | 1 |
| 29 | 20 | Hard Times Require Furious Dancing (New World Library) | 31 |
| 30 | – | One With Others: [a little book of her days] (paperback) (Copper Canyon Press) | 7 |
| 30 | – | Come and See (Graywolf Press) | 1 |
| 30 | – | Come on All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon Press ) | 24 |
