Course Texts
| Titles | Authors | ISBN # |
| Charlotte Temple (this edition only) | Susanna Rowson | 0195042387 |
| Ragged Dick | Horatio Algier | 0451469593 |
| Peyton Place | Grace Metalious | 1555534007 |
| The Godfather |
Mario Puzo |
9780451205766 |
| Misery | Stephen King |
9781501143106 |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | J.K. Rowling | 9781338299144 | pdfs
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Davis, Kenneth C. Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
Hackett, Alice Payne, and James Henry Burke. 80 Years of Best Sellers, 1895-1975. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1977.
Hart, James D. The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste. New York: Oxford UP, 1950.
Hinckley, Karen, and Barbara Hinckley. American Best Sellers: A Reader's Guide to Popular Fiction. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1989.
Miller, Laura J. “The Best-Seller List as Marketing Tool and Historical Fiction,” Book History III (2000) 286-304.
Mott, Frank Luther. Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1947.
Tebbel, John. A History of Book Publishing in the United States. 4 vols. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1972-1981.
---. Between Covers: The Rise and Transformation of Book Publishing in America. New York: Oxford UP, 1987.
Twitchell, James B. Carnival Culture: The Trashing of
Taste
in America. New York: Columbia UP, 1992.
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