Best Sellers
Contemporary Best Sellers: Week of January 17, 2010
| THIS WEEK |
LAST WEEK |
BOOK | WEEKS ON LIST |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Leavings by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint) | 19 |
| 2 | 4 | Evidence by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 47 |
| 3 | 6 | Red Bird (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 47 |
| 4 | 8 | The Shadow of Sirius (paperback) by W. S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press) | 23 |
| 5 | 15 | New and Selected Poems: Volume Two (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 145 |
| 6 | 9 | Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 205 |
| 7 | 15 | Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni (William Morrow) | 52 |
| 8 | 7 | Thirst (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 126 |
| 9 | 11 | The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) | 60 |
| 10 | 13 | The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (paperback) by Billy Collins (Random House) | 148 |
| 11 | 9 | News of the World by Philip Levine (Knopf) | 14 |
| 11 | 28 | Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration by Elizabeth Alexander (Graywolf Press) | 39 |
| 12 | -- | It Is Daylight by Arda Collins (Yale University Press) | 3 |
| 13 | 20 | Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath (Harper Perennial) | 156 |
| 14 | 10 | A Village Life by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | 23 |
| 14 | -- | Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan by June Jordan (Copper Canyon Press) | 2 |
| 15 | -- | For the Confederate Dead by Kevin Young (Knopf) | 2 |
| 16 | -- | Scary, No Scary by Zachary Schomburg (Black Ocean) | 3 |
| 17 | -- | Averno by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | 61 |
| 17 | 12 | Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike (Knopf) | 44 |
| 18 | -- | Skirmish by Dobby Gibson (Graywolf Press) | 2 |
| 19 | 23 | The Niagara River by Kay Ryan (Grove Press) | 82 |
| 20 | 16 | 77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Kellior (Common Good Books) | 35 |
| 20 | 17 | Ballistics by Billy Collins (Random House) | 73 |
| 21 | 12 | Planisphere by John Ashbery (Ecco) | 9 |
| 22 | 3 | Sinners Welcome (paperback) by Mary Karr (Harper Perennial) | 10 |
| 22 | -- | Fire to Fire by Mark Doty (Harper Perennial) | 42 |
| 23 | 22 | Native Guard (paperback) by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin) | 92 |
| 24 | 21 | All American Poem by Matthew Dickman (American Poetry Review) | 41 |
| 24 | -- | Face by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose Press) | 46 |
| 25 | 26 | Dearest Creature by Amy Gerstler (Penguin) | 13 |
| 26 | 29 | Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee (W.W. Norton & Co.) | 27 |
| 26 | 5 | Sakura Park: Poems Rachel Wetzsteon (Persea) | 3 |
| 26 | -- | On Speaking Terms by Connie Wanek (Copper Canyon Press) | 2 |
| 27 | -- | The Cosmopolitan Donna Stonecipher (Coffee House Press) | 2 |
| 28 | -- | Fidelity by Grace Paley (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | 5 |
| 28 | 27 | The End of the West by Michael Dickman (Copper Canyon Press) | 24 |
| 29 | 14 | Here, Bullet by Brian Turner (Alice James Books) | 99 |
| 29 | -- | Bluets by Maggie Nelson (Wave Books) | 1 |
| 30 | -- | Collected Poems (paperback) by Jane Kenyon (Graywolf Press) | 46 |
| 30 | -- | A Radiant Curve: Poems and Stories by Luci Tapahonso (University of Arizona Press) | 2 |
| 30 | 19 | The Chain Letter of the Soul by Bill Holm (Milkweed Editions) | 14 |
