Bestsellers at the U.Va. Bookstore: October through December 2010

Fiction/Poetry

1. Leavings: Poems by Wendell Berry

2. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

3. The Mad Farmer Poems by Wendell Berry

4. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

5. The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry

6. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

7. Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg (faculty)

8. The Associate by John Grisham

9. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

10. The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve: The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

1. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins

2. Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns (faculty)

3. Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry

4. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

5. Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece: Revised Edition by Richard Guy Wilson (faculty)

6. The Year of Obama: How Barack Obama Won the White House by Larry J. Sabato (Col ’74, faculty)

7. Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir by Kay Redfield Jamison

8. Carr’s Hill: The President’s House at the University of Virginia, 1909-2009 by Margaret Gutman Klosko

9. A More Perfect Constitution: Ideas to Inspire a New Generation by Larry J. Sabato (Col ’74, faculty)

10. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max

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