The Book Sense Poetry Bestseller List
For the eight-week period ending April 16, 2006, and based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide.
Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.
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| The Book Sense Poetry Bestseller List |
| 1. | The Trouble With Poetry |
| 2. | The Prophet |
| 3. | Good Poems |
| 4. | Gilgamesh: A New English Version |
| 5. | Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems |
| 6. | New and Selected Poems: Volume One |
| 7. | Sailing Alone Around the Room |
| 8. | Good Poems for Hard Times |
| 9. | Why I Wake Early: New Poems |
| 10. | New and Selected Poems: Volume Two |
| 11. | Averno: Poems |
| 12. | Delights & Shadows |
| 13. | Song of the Water Boatman: & Other Pond Poems |
| 14. | After: Poems |
| 15. | Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments |
| 16. | Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair |
| 17. | The Gift |
| 18. | The Essential Rumi |
| 19. | Beowulf: A New Verse Translation |
| 20. | Nine Horses: Poems |
| 21. | Poet's Choice |
| 22. | Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays |
| 23. | Howl: And Other Poems |
| 24. | The Odyssey |
| 25. | The Best American Poetry |
| 26. | 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day |
| 27. | The Poetry of Pablo Neruda |
| 28. | The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing |
| 29. | Ten Poems to Change Your Life |
| 30. | Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me |
| 31. | Poetry 180 |
| 32. | The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden |
| 33. | Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices From the East and West |
| 34. | Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems |
| 35. | Leaves of Grass: The First 1855 Edition |