Best Sellers
Contemporary Best Sellers: Week of June 21, 2009
| THIS WEEK |
LAST WEEK |
BOOK | WEEKS ON LIST |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | The Shadow of Sirius by W. S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press) | 37 |
| 2 | 2 | Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike (Knopf) | 12 |
| 3 | 3 | Evidence by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 15 |
| 4 | 1 | Ballistics by Billy Collins (Random House) | 40 |
| 5 | 4 | Red Bird (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 15 |
| 6 | 8 | The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (paperback) by Billy Collins (Random House) | 118 |
| 7 | 7 | 77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Kellior (Common Good Books) | 4 |
| 8 | 10 | The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) | 28 |
| 9 | 5 | In Search of Small Gods by Jim Harrison (Copper Canyon Press) | 11 |
| 10 | 9 | Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni (William Morrow) | 23 |
| 10 | 8 | Thirst (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 94 |
| 10 | 11 | Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 176 |
| 11 | -- | Space Walk by Tom Sleigh (Mariner Books) | 1 |
| 12 | 13 | New and Selected Poems: Volume Two (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 115 |
| 13 | -- | Migration: New & Selected Poems (paperback) by W. S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press) | 10 |
| 13 | 21 | Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass (Ecco ) | 33 |
| 13 | 17 | Face by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose Press) | 12 |
| 14 | 23 | All American Poem by Matthew Dickman (American Poetry Review) | 14 |
| 14 | -- | If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting by Anna Journey (University of Georgia Press) | 2 |
| 15 | 14 | Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee (W.W. Norton & Co.) | 3 |
| 15 | 24 | The Dance Most of All by Jack Gilbert (Knopf) | 10 |
| 16 | -- | Present Company by W. S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press) | 7 |
| 17 | 25 | Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove (W.W. Norton & Co.) | 11 |
| 18 | 21 | Native Guard (paperback) by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin) | 85 |
| 19 | 16 | The Mind-Body Problem: Poems by Katha Pollitt (Random House) | 3 |
| 20 | 20 | Fire to Fire by Mark Doty (Harper Perennial) | 22 |
| 21 | -- | Blue Iris: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 104 |
| 22 | 12 | Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration by Elizabeth Alexander (Graywolf Press) | 21 |
| 23 | -- | Given: Poems by Wendell Berry (Shoemaker & Hoard) | 77 |
| 23 | 15 | The Truro Bear and Other Adventures by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 36 |
| 24 | 23 | Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | 12 |
| 25 | -- | Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert (Knopf) | 38 |
| 26 | -- | Red Bird (hardcover) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) | 63 |
| 27 | 15 | The People Look Like Flowers At Last (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) | 70 |
| 28 | -- | Made Flesh by Craig Arnold (Ausable Press) | 1 |
| 29 | 22 | The End of the West by Michael Dickman (Copper Canyon Press) | 13 |
| 29 | -- | That Little Something by Charles Simic (Mariner Books) | 5 |
| 29 | -- | Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) | 133 |
| 30 | 30 | Collected Poems (paperback) by Jane Kenyon (Graywolf Press) | 43 |
| 30 | -- | Failure (paperback) by Philip Schultz (Mariner Books) | 5 |
