Best Sellers: Literature, February 7, 2013

March 2012 to date as identified by YBP Library Services

1) James Joyce: A New Biography
Bowker, Gordon
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2012. ISBN 9780374178727. $35

2) Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Rushdie, Salman
Random House
2012. ISBN 9780812992786. $30

3) The Art of Robert Frost
Kendall, Tim
Yale University Press
2012. ISBN 9780300118131. $35

4) Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Winterson, Jeanette
Grove
2011. ISBN 9780802120106. $25

5) Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures
Johnson, Claudia L.
University of Chicago Press
2012. ISBN 9780226402031. $35

6) The Event of Literature
Eagleton, Terry
Yale University Press
2012. ISBN 9780300178814. $26

7) Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America
Cheng, John
University of Pennsylvania Press
2012. ISBN 9780812243833. $45

8) Farther Away
Franzen, Jonathan
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2012. ISBN 9780374153571. $26

9) Edmund Spenser: A Life
Hadfield, Andrew
Oxford University Press
2012. ISBN 9780199591022. $45

10) The Cambridge Introduction to Milton
Dobranski, Stephen B.
Cambridge University Press
2012. ISBN 9780521898188. $90

11) Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation’s Journalism
Daly, Christopher B.
University of Massachusetts
2012. ISBN 9781558499119. $49.95

12) There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
Achebe, Chinua
Penguin Books
2012. ISBN 9781594204821. $27.95

13) Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Boyd, Brian
Harvard University Press
2012. ISBN 9780674065642. $25.95

14) Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural
Nelson, Victoria
Harvard University Press
2012. ISBN 9780674050143. $27.95

15) The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing
Morley, David
Cambridge University Press
2012. ISBN 9780521768498. $90

16) Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
Warner, Marina
Belknap: Harvard University Press
2012. ISBN 9780674055308. $35

17) Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness
Avishai, Bernard
Yale University Press
2012. ISBN 9780300151909. $25

18) Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor
Richardson, Ruth
Oxford University Press
2012. ISBN 9780199645886. $29.95

19) When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays
Robinson, Marilynne
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2012. ISBN 9780374298784. $24

20) Shakespeare in America
Vaughan, Alden T.
Oxford University Press
2012. ISBN 9780199566389. $75