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Bestsellers at the UVA Bookstore: January Through March 2011

May 1, 2011

Fiction/Poetry

  1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  2. Super: A Novel by Jim Lehrer
  3. The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie (faculty)
  4. Windy City: A Novel of Politics by Scott Simon
  5. The Brothers’ Lot by Kevin Holohan
  6. Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones by Amiri Baraka
  7. The Gathering by Anne Enright
  8. The False Friend by Myla Goldberg
  9. Tales of the Out & the Gone by Amiri Baraka
  10. Morning Knowledge by Kevin Hart

Nonfiction

  1. A History of Cancer Care at the University of Virginia: 1901-2011 by Henry K. Sharp (Arch class of ’96, class of ’10) and Morton C. Wilhelm (faculty)
  2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  3. The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid
  4. Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption by Scott Simon
  5. The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader by Amiri Baraka
  6. Crash Into Me: A Survivor’s Search for Justice by Liz Seccuro (Col class of ’88)
  7. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  8. Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals by Christopher Payne
  9. Josie’s Story: A Mother’s Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe by Sorrel King
  10. The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones