The Chronicle of Higher Education prints a list of best-selling books compiled from information supplied by stores serving a selection of college and university campuses each month. To find out what students at The University of Texas at Austin are reading we asked Follett’s Intellectual Property at 24th and Guadalupe streets for a list of its top 10 bestsellers. Below is a list of top-selling books for the last three months. Manager Chris Smith estimates at least 75 percent of the store’s customers are students at the university.
1. I Am America (And So Can You!) – Stephen Colbert
2. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
3. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
4. Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs – Chuck Klosterman
5. Freakonomics – Steven Levitt
6. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
7. This is Your Brain on Music – Daniel Levitin
8. Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
9. Memories of My Melancholy Whores – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s list of bestsellers from its December issue includes:
1. I Am America (And So Can You!) – Stephen Colbert
2. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia – Elizabeth Gilbert
3. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. Our Dumb World: The Onion’s Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition – The Onion
5. Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
6. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War – Max Brooks
7. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
8. What Is the What – Dave Eggers
9. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
10. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals – Michael Pollan
