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The Book Sense Category Bestseller List: Music
Printer-friendly versionBased on the last eight weeks of sales from over 350 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 latest of many subject category lists to run in BTW each week. These are intended as inventory checking tools for booksellers, alerts to publishers as to what's selling, and lists that the media can run. (To view previous lists, click here.)
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Music Bestsellers
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The Top 40 (of course!) for the Last Eight Weeks
| 1. | The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier, by Thaddeus Carhart (Random House, $13.95, 0375758623) |
| 2. | A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, by Dennis McNally (Broadway, $30, 0767911857) |
| 3. | I Hope You Dance, with CD, by Mark D. Sanders (Rutledge Hill Press, $14.99, 1558538445) |
| 4. | When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson, by Pam Munoz Ryan; illus. by Brian Selznick (Scholastic, $16.95, 0439269679) |
| 5. | Jerry Garcia's Amazing Grace, with CD (HarperCollins, $15.95, 0060297107) |
| 6. | Rolling with the Stones, by Bill Wyman (DK, $50, 0789489678) |
| 7. | The Beatles Anthology, by The Beatles (Chronicle, $35, 0811836363) |
| 8. | Shakey, by Jimmy McDonough (Random House, $29.95, 0679427724) |
| 9. | Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce, by Alfred Appel (Knopf, $35, 0394533933) |
| 10. | Da Capo Best Music Writing: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country & More (2002), ed. by Jonathan Letham (Da Capo Press, $15, 0306811669) |
| 11. | Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters, by Robert Gordon (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316328499) |
| 12. | The Land Where the Blues Began, with CD, by Alan Lomax (New Press, $21.95, 1565847393) |
| 13. | Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981 - 1991, by Michael Azerrad (Little, Brown, $15.95, 0316787531) |
| 14. | Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Song Book (Sing Out Publications, $17.95, 0962670472) |
| 15. | I Can't Fight This Feeling: Timeless Poems for Lovers, from the Pop Hits of the '70s and '80s (Quirk Books, $14.95, 1931686114) |
| 16. | Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society, by Daniel Barenboim (Pantheon, $24, 0375421068) |
| 17. | The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band, by Motley Crue (ReganBooks, $15.95, 0060989157) |
| 18. | Sing-Along Songs with Cassettes, by Mary Ann Hoberman (Megan Tingley Books, $14.95, 0316930210) |
| 19. | Piano Notes: The Hidden World of the Pianist, by Charles Rosen (Free Press, $25, 0743203828) |
| 20. | On the Road with Bob Dylan, by Larry Ratso Sloman (Three Rivers Press, $14, 1400045967) |
| 21. | Kiss and Make-Up, by Gene Simmons (Three Rivers Press, $14, 0609810022) |
| 22. | Songwriter's Market: 1,200 Places to Market Your Songs (2003), by Ian Bessler (Writer's Digest Books, $24.99, 1582971234) |
| 23. | God Bless America, with CD, by Irving Berlin (HarperCollins Publishers, $15.99, 0060097884) |
| 24. | Positively 4th Street, by David Hajdu (North Point Press, $14, 086547642X) |
| 25. | Guitar for Dummies with CD, by Mark Phillips (Hungry Minds/Wiley, $24.99, 076455106X) |
| 26. | Harrison, by Editors of Rolling Stone (Simon & Schuster, $29.95, 0743235819) |
| 27. | The Music of Silence: A Memoir, by Andrea Bocelli (HarperEntertainment, $13.95, 0060936983) |
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How Can We Keep from Singing: Music and the Passionate Life, by Joan Oliver Goldsmith (Norton, $13.95, 0393323641) |
| 29. | The New Penguin Opera Guide (Penguin Books, $30, 0140514759) |
| 30. | The Truth Is: My Life in Love and Music, by Melissa Etheridge (Random House, $13.95, 0375760261) |
| 31. | The Tao of Elvis, by David Rosen (Harvest, $12, 0156007371) |
| 32. | The Classical Music Experience: Hear and Discover the Sounds and Stories of 42 Great Composers with CD, by Julius H. Jacobson II (Sourcebooks, $39.95, 1570719500) |
| 33. | At This Theatre: 100 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories, and Stars (Applause Books, $35, 1557835667) |
| 34. | The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music, by Tim Smith (Perigee, $13.95, 0399527958) |
| 35. | The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz, by Loren Schoenberg (Perigee, $13.95, 039952794X) |
| 36. | A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album, by Ashley Kahn (Viking, $27.95, 0670031364) |
| 37. | Jazz: A History of America's Music, by Geoffrey C. Ward (Knopf, $29.95, 0679765395) |
| 38. | Essays on Music, by Theodor W. Adorno (University of California Press, $34.95, 0520231597) |
| 39. | This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie, by Elizabeth Partridge (Viking Children's Books, $21.99, 0670035351) |
| 40. | Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones, by Stephen Davis (Broadway, $15.95, 0767903137) |
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