Best Sellers
Contemporary Best Sellers: Week of February 28, 2010
| THIS WEEK |
LAST WEEK |
BOOK | WEEKS ON LIST |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Ballistics (paperback) by Billy Collins (Random House) | 4 |
| 2 | 15 | The Best of It by Kay Ryan (Grove Press) | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland (Graywolf Press) | 5 |
| 4 | 4 | Leavings by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint) | 23 |
| 5 | 7 | Evidence by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 51 |
| 6 | 3 | Bicycles: Love Poems (paperback) by Nikki Giovanni (Harper Perennial) | 5 |
| 7 | 6 | Thirst (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 130 |
| 8 | 11 | New and Selected Poems: Volume Two (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 150 |
| 9 | 9 | The Shadow of Sirius (paperback) by W. S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press) | 27 |
| 10 | 12 | The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (paperback) by Billy Collins (Random House) | 151 |
| 11 | 5 | Red Bird (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 51 |
| 12 | 8 | The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) | 64 |
| 13 | 10 | Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 209 |
| 14 | -- | Fidelity by Grace Paley (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux) | 24 |
| 15 | -- | Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007 by Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | 1 |
| 16 | 17 | The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) | 97 |
| 17 | 19 | A Village Life by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | 27 |
| 17 | -- | All the Whiskey in Heaven by Charles Bernstein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | 1 |
| 18 | 22 | 77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Keillor (Common Good Books) | 39 |
| 19 | 28 | Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni (William Morrow) | 56 |
| 20 | 20 | Mean Free Path by Ben Lerner (Copper Canyon Press) | 2 |
| 21 | 16 | Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath (Harper Perennial) | 160 |
| 22 | 30 | Here, Bullet by Brian Turner (Alice James Books) | 103 |
| 23 | 21 | The Door by Margaret Atwood (Mariner Books; Pap/Com Re edition) | 22 |
| 24 | -- | The Niagara River by Kay Ryan (Grove Press) | 83 |
| 24 | -- | Voices by Lucille Clifton (BOA Editions Ltd.) | 3 |
| 25 | -- | Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass (Ecco ) | 51 |
| 25 | -- | Chronic by D.A. Powell (Graywolf Press) | 4 |
| 26 | -- | Morning Haiku by Sonia Sanchez (Beacon Press) | 1 |
| 27 | -- | Dog Language by Chase Twichell (Copper Canyon Press) | 1 |
| 28 | 25 | The People Look Like Flowers At Last (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) | 99 |
| 28 | -- | News of the World by Philip Levine (Knopf) | 17 |
| 28 | -- | Upgraded to Serious by Heather McHugh (Copper Canyon Press) | 10 |
| 29 | 29 | Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) | 144 |
| 29 | 18 | New Selected Poems by Mark Strand (Knopf) | 15 |
| 29 | -- | Slamming Open the Door by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno (Alice James Books) | 21 |
| 30 | -- | Collected Poems (paperback) by Jane Kenyon (Graywolf Press) | 47 |
