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Bestsellers at the UVA Bookstore

October through December 2013

March 8, 2014

Fiction/Poetry

  1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  2. Dear Life by Alice Munro
  3. Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems by Charles Wright (Faculty)
  4. The Lowland: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
  5. River Inside the River: Three Lyric Sequences by Gregory Orr (Faculty)
  6. History and Other Poems by Brenda Marie Osbey
  7. Return to Oakpine by Ron Carlson
  8. The Luminaries: A Novel by Eleanor Catton
  9. The Round House: A Novel by Louise Erdrich
  10. The Best American Short Stories 2013 by Elizabeth Strout (Editor)

Nonfiction

  1. The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy by Larry J. Sabato (Col ’74, Faculty)
  2. Bossypants by Tina Fey (Col class of ’92)
  3. Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed by Alexis Ohanian (Com class of ’05)
  4. A Tour of Mr. Jefferson’s University with Edgar the Squirrel by Mark Dewalt (Grad class of ’86), Elisabeth Wise, Carolyn Dewalt (Educ class of ’77) and Deb Mink
  5. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder
  6. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
  7. Birthright: People and Nature in the Modern World by Stephen R. Kellert
  8. Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch by Barbara A. Perry (Grad ’86, Faculty)
  9. God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet
  10. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck