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The Book Sense Category Bestseller List: Travel Writing, Part 1
Printer-friendly versionBased on the last eight weeks of sales from over 300 independent bookstores across America.
Thanks to all the stores that report, the new expanded electronic reporting options, and the software our team here has built to sort and slice a ton of data according to BISAC categories, this is the fourth of many subject category lists to run in BTW each week. (To view the previous lists, click here.)These are intended as inventory checking tools for booksellers, alerts to publishers as to what's selling, and lists that the media can run.
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Travel Writing Bestsellers
Top 25 for the Last Eight Weeks
(All are paperback unless otherwise noted; an asterisk (*) indicates a 76 Pick)
| 1. | * Paris to the Moon Adam Gopnik (Random House, $14.95, 0375758232) |
| 2. | French Lessons Peter Mayle (Vintage, $12.95, 375705619) |
| 3. | * Walking the Bible Bruce Feiler, (Perennial, $14.95, 0380807319) |
| 4. | A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson (Broadway, $13.95, 0767902521) |
| 5. | Ciao, America: An Italian Discovers the U.S. Beppe Severgnini (Broadway, $21.95 cloth, 0767912357 |
| 6. | Into the Wild Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $12.95, 0385486804) |
| 7. | In a Sunburned Country Bill Bryson (Broadway, $14.95, 0767903862 |
| 8. | *A Thousand Days in Venice Marlena De Blasi (Algonquin, $23.95 cloth, 1565123212) |
| 9. | * River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze Peter Hessler (Perennial, $13.95, 0060953748) |
| 10. | Florence David Leavitt (Bloomsbury, $16.95 cloth, 1582342393) |
| 11. | Oaxaca Journal Oliver Sacks (National Geographic Society, $20 cloth, 0792265211) |
| 12. | Sorcerer's Apprentice Tahir Shah (Arcade, $13.95, 1559706260) |
| 13. | Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson (Avon, $14, 0380727501) |
| 14. | American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads Pascale Le Draoulec (HarperCollins, $23.95 cloth, 0060197366) |
| 15. | A Year in Provence Peter Mayle (Vintage, $11, 0679731148) |
| 16. | Neither Here Nor There Bill Bryson (Avon, $14, 0380713802) |
| 17. | * Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Town Michael Rips (Back Bay, $12.95, 0316748641) |
| 18. | Wild Stories: The Best of Men's Journal: Ten Years of Great Writing Men's Journal (Crown $24.95 cloth, 0609610465) |
| 19. | Far Appalachia Noah Adams (Delta, $12.95, 0385320132) |
| 20. | Route 66 A.D: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists Tony Perrottet (Random House, $24.95 cloth, 037550432X) |
| 21. | Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera Annie Hawes (Perennial, $13.95, 0060958111) |
| 22. | * An Unexpected Light Jason Elliot (Picador, $18, 0312288468) |
| 23. | * On Mexican Time Tony Cohan (Broadway, $14, 0767903196) |
| 24. | * Road Angels: Searching for Home on America's Coast of Dreams Kent Nerburn (HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95, 0060698691) |
| 25. | French Dirt Richard Goodman (Algonquin, $13, 1565123522) |