Best Sellers: Literature, May 10, 2012

June 2011 to date as identified by YBP Library Services

1) Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America
Reynolds, David S.
W.W. Norton
2011. ISBN 9780393081329. $27.95

2) Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert
Belknap: Harvard University Press
2011. ISBN 9780674050037. $29.95

3) Blue Nights
Didion, Joan
Alfred A. Knopf
2011. ISBN 9780307267672. $25

4) Charles Dickens: A Life
Tomalin, Claire
Penguin Group (USA)
2011. ISBN 9781594203091. $36

5) Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934‚ 1961
Hendrickson, Paul
Alfred A. Knopf
2011. ISBN 9781400041626. $30

6) And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut; A Life
Shields, Charles J.
Henry Holt
2011. ISBN 9780805086935. $30

7) Why Jane Austen?
Brownstein, Rachel M.
Columbia University Press
2011. ISBN 9780231153904. $29.50

8) Arthur Miller, 1962‚ 2005
Bigsby, Chrisopher
University of Michigan Press
2011. ISBN 9780472118175. $65

9) MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic
Spiegelman, Art
Alfred A. Knopf
2011. ISBN 9780375423949. $35

10) Ben Jonson: A Life
Donaldson, Ian
Oxford University Press
2011. ISBN 9780198129769. $39.95

11) Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels
Locke, Richard
Columbia University Press
2011. ISBN 9780231157827. $29.50

12) Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage
Carretta, Vincent
University of Georgia Press
2011. ISBN 9780820333380. $29.95

13) Modernism
Levenson, Michael
Yale University Press
2011. ISBN 9780300111736. $40

14) Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages
Bevington, David
Oxford University Press
2011. ISBN 9780199599103. $45

15) Something Urgent I Have To Say to You: The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams
Leibowitz, Herbert
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2011. ISBN 9780374113292. $40

16) The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George
Gigante, Denise
Belknap: Harvard University Press
2011. ISBN 9780674048560. $35

17) The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
Smethurst, James Edward
University of North Carolina Press
2011. ISBN 9780807834633. $65

18) Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature
Lopez, Marissa K.
New York University Press
2011. ISBN 9780814752616. $75

19) Letters of Ernest Hemingway. Vol. 1: 1907‚ 1922
Hemingway, Ernest
Cambridge University Press
2011. ISBN 9780521897334. $40

20) Why Read Moby-Dick?
Philbrick, Nathaniel
Viking
2011. ISBN 9780670022991. $25