Bestsellers at UPB

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Although UPB has only a few small windows on the universe, the books we sell the most copies of do suggest what people are reading in Berkeley.  And some of us think Berkeley is the center of the universe.  Whatever- here are some books that have sold well this past month.

  1. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, Manning Marable
    $30.00, cloth, Penguin
  2. How to Write a Sentence, Stanley Fish
    $19.99, cloth, Harper Collins
  3. Why I Write, George Orwell 
    $10.00, paper, Penguin
  4. Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future, Robert Reich
    $14.95, paper, Random House
  5. Illuminations, Arthur Rimbaud (tr. John Ashbury)
     $24.95, cloth, W.W. Norton
  6. Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, Rebecca Solnit
    $24.95, paper, University of California Press
  7. The Hare with the Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and Loss , Edmund de Waal
    $26.00, cloth, MPS
  8. The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life, Harold Bloom
    $32.50, cloth, Yale University Press
  9. Paris Portraits: Stories of Picasso, Matisse, Gertrude Stein, and Their Circle, Harriet Lane Levy
    $21.95, paper, Heyday
  10. The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century, Christopher Nealon
    $35.00, cloth, Harvard University Press 
  11. How to Listen to Great Music: A Guide to Its History, CUlture, and Heart, Robert Greenberg
    $16.00, paper, Penguin