Best Sellers
Contemporary Best Sellers: Week of October 25, 2009
| THIS WEEK |
LAST WEEK |
BOOK | WEEKS ON LIST |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Evidence by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 33 |
| 2 | 1 | The Shadow of Sirius (paperback) by W. S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press) | 9 |
| 3 | 2 | Leavings by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint) | 5 |
| 4 | 4 | Red Bird (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 33 |
| 5 | 7 | Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 193 |
| 6 | 9 | A Village Life by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | 9 |
| 7 | -- | All American Poem by Matthew Dickman (American Poetry Review) | 27 |
| 8 | 16 | Face by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose Press) | 31 |
| 9 | 12 | New and Selected Poems: Volume Two (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 133 |
| 10 | 5 | Thirst (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 112 |
| 11 | 8 | The Continual Condition by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) | 5 |
| 12 | -- | The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (paperback) by Billy Collins (Random House) | 134 |
| 12 | 11 | In Search of Small Gods by Jim Harrison (Copper Canyon Press) | 29 |
| 13 | 17 | The Chain Letter of the Soul by Bill Holm (Milkweed Editions) | 3 |
| 14 | 15 | 77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Kellior (Common Good Books) | 22 |
| 15 | 6 | Ballistics by Billy Collins (Random House) | 58 |
| 16 | 10 | News of the World by Philip Levine (Knopf) | 4 |
| 16 | 20 | Fire to Fire by Mark Doty (Harper Perennial) | 35 |
| 17 | -- | Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration by Elizabeth Alexander (Graywolf Press) | 32 |
| 17 | 13 | The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) | 46 |
| 18 | 29 | The Niagara River by Kay Ryan (Grove Press) | 71 |
| 19 | 26 | Wheeling Motel by Franz Wright (Knopf) | 8 |
| 20 | 27 | Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike (Knopf) | 30 |
| 21 | -- | Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni (William Morrow) | 39 |
| 22 | 25 | Bang Ditto by Amber Tamblyn (Manic D Press, Inc.) | 5 |
| 22 | -- | The End of the West by Michael Dickman (Copper Canyon Press) | 20 |
| 22 | 24 | Slamming Open the Door by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno (Alice James Books) | 17 |
| 22 | -- | Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | 23 |
| 23 | -- | Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee (W.W. Norton & Co.) | 19 |
| 24 | -- | The People Look Like Flowers At Last (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) | 83 |
| 24 | -- | Or to Begin Again by Ann Lauterbach (Penguin (Non-Classics)) | 2 |
| 25 | -- | American Music by Chris Martin (Copper Canyon) | 1 |
| 25 | -- | Here, Bullet by Brian Turner (Alice James Books) | 90 |
| 26 | 26 | Upgraded to Serious by Heather McHugh (Copper Canyon Press) | 3 |
| 26 | -- | Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass (Ecco ) | 44 |
| 27 | 26 | In Advance of All Parting by Ansie Baird (White Pine Press) | 4 |
| 27 | -- | The Mad Farmer Poems by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint) | 29 |
| 27 | -- | Third Wish Wasted by Roddy Lumsden (Bloodaxe Books) | 1 |
| 27 | -- | Lucifer at the Starlite by Kim Addonizio (W.W. Norton & Co.) | 7 |
| 28 | -- | Embryoyo by Dean Young (McSweeney's) | 7 |
| 30 | -- | The Mansion of Happiness by Robin Ekiss (University of Georgia Press) | 1 |
