More From the Bestseller Data -- If You Can Use It

Actually, there weren't a lot of surprises. These are probably all books you're aware of. I was looking for some backlist and any especially well-priced gifty books in the top 50 of our data.

A new kid's book doing well:

• #24 Christmas Day in the Morning, by Pearl S. Buck; illus. by Mark Buehner (HarperCollins, $16.99, 0688162673) -- originally published in 1955, now reissued as an illustrated book
  

In trade paper:

• #49 Dare to Repair, by Julie Sussman (HarperResource, $14.95, 0060959843)
  
• #52 Handbags: The Power of the Purse, by Anna Johnson (Workman, $13.95, 0761123776)
  
• #53 Sibley's Birding Basics, by David Sibley (Knopf, $15.95, 0375709665)
  

Hardcover nonfiction:

• #24 Earth From Above 365 Days, by Yann Arthus-Bertrand (Harry N. Abrams, $29.95, 0810914301)
  
• #39 Joy of Cooking (Revised), by Irma Von Starkloff Rombauer (Scribner, $35, 0684818701)
  
• #42 Century, by Bruce Bernard (Phaidon Press, $19.95, 0714842796)
  
• #48 American Studies, by Louis Menand (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25, 0374104344)
  

And poetry is doing nicely, with Billy Collins strong as ever, and:

• #26 Good Poems, ed. by Garrison Keillor (Viking, $25.95, 0670031267)
  

Let me know if there's any book or category you'd like us to look into.

Carl
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