Best Sellers
Contemporary Best Sellers: Week of November 8, 2009
| THIS WEEK |
LAST WEEK |
BOOK | WEEKS ON LIST |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Leavings by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint) | 7 |
| 2 | 3 | Evidence by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 35 |
| 3 | 2 | The Shadow of Sirius (paperback) by W. S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press) | 11 |
| 4 | 6 | Red Bird (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 35 |
| 5 | 22 | Dearest Creature by Amy Gerstler (Penguin) | 3 |
| 6 | 5 | Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 195 |
| 7 | 9 | Thirst (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 114 |
| 8 | -- | Home by Now by Meg Kearney (Four Way) | 1 |
| 9 | 16 | The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (paperback) by Billy Collins (Random House) | 136 |
| 10 | 14 | A Village Life by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | 11 |
| 11 | 8 | All American Poem by Matthew Dickman (American Poetry Review) | 29 |
| 12 | 13 | The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) | 48 |
| 13 | -- | In Search of Small Gods by Jim Harrison (Copper Canyon Press) | 30 |
| 14 | 11 | New and Selected Poems: Volume Two (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 135 |
| 15 | 7 | The Continual Condition by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) | 7 |
| 15 | 20 | Upgraded to Serious by Heather McHugh (Copper Canyon Press) | 5 |
| 16 | -- | Here, Bullet by Brian Turner (Alice James Books) | 91 |
| 17 | 26 | Ballistics by Billy Collins (Random House) | 61 |
| 18 | -- | Rags of My Soul by T. Byram Karasu (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ) | 2 |
| 19 | 24 | Sinners Welcome by Mary Karr (Harper Perennial) | 2 |
| 20 | 4 | Face by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose Press) | 34 |
| 21 | 10 | The Niagara River by Kay Ryan (Grove Press) | 73 |
| 22 | -- | Sediment by Sandy Tseng (Four Way) | 1 |
| 23 | -- | Fire to Fire by Mark Doty (Harper Perennial) | 36 |
| 24 | -- | Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove (W.W. Norton & Co.) | 19 |
| 24 | 28 | Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike (Knopf) | 32 |
| 24 | -- | The Truro Bear and Other Adventures by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 49 |
| 25 | -- | Blood Dazzler Patricia Smith (Coffee House Press) | 16 |
| 25 | -- | The Door by Margaret Atwood (Mariner Books; Pap/Com Re edition) | 17 |
| 26 | -- | Slamming Open the Door by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno (Alice James Books) | 18 |
| 27 | 21 | News of the World by Philip Levine (Knopf) | 6 |
| 28 | -- | Easy by Marie Ponsot (Knopf) | 2 |
| 29 | 29 | The People Look Like Flowers At Last (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) | 85 |
| 30 | -- | What the Right Hand Knows by Tom Healy (Four Way) | 1 |
