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Bestseller: A Century of America's Favorite Books Published December 2018

December 15, 2018

Tags: history, bestselling books, American literature, popular culture

Bestseller: A Century of America's Favorite Books is a cultural study of America and American popular culture seen through the bestselling fiction and non-fiction titles from 1900 to 2018. This book is a reference volume that investigates the responses of readers, lists all top bestselling books, discusses publication trends, and provides biographical sketches of bestselling authors.

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Selected Works

History; Bestselling Books; Literature

Bestseller: A Century of America's Favorite Books

America's favorite books across the past 100 years are discussed in this book.

Music

Science Fiction in Classic Rock

Science fiction and mythology have often been present in the imagery, lyrics, and sound of progressive rock music and in other styles of rock music. This book looks at the work of David Bowie, ELO, Alan Parsons, ELP, Pink Floyd, Blue Oyster Cult, Rush, and other bands.

Cultural History-Literary Criticism-Critical Biography

Native Sons to King's Men: The Literary Landscape of the 1940s

The 1940s, a time of war and a generation's great effort, is discussed in this cultural history through the novels of the era.

History; Literary Criticism

Citizen Steinbeck: Giving Voice to the People

Citizen Steinbeck covers the career and works of American author John Steinbeck.

Literature and Cultural History

Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Other Writers Shaped the 1920s

Beyond Gatsby discusses Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and other American writers of the 1920s.

Mark Twain's Audience

Reader response, book history, and American cultural history.

Film Studies

Film and Literary Modernism

Film and Literary Modernism is a collection of essays about the arts, literary modernism, and film making from 1900 through the 1960s.

Non-Fiction

Charles Dickens’s American Audience

This is the first study of Dickens’s American readers and audience for his American readings.Bela Kornitzer Award Winner.

Music and Literary Modernism

Explores the connections between music and literature.

Bloom's How to Write About Joseph Conrad

This study of Conrad’s themes, style, and techniques is for those writing on his works.

Fiction

In the Nick of Time

A collection of short stories.

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