When it comes to best sellers at Colby, faculty have the inside track. Two recently published faculty authors, James Boylan and Ira Sadoff, have books among the top 10 sellers at the Colby bookstore. Two years after its publication, English professor Linda Tatelbaum's memoir, Carrying Water as a Way of Life, still holds its own in the non-fiction category. The top non-fiction book, Leaving Pipe Shop, got a boost when author (and former Colby English professor) Deborah McDowell was the first speaker in Colby's Visiting Writers series this fall.
Fiction
1 Getting In - James Finney Boylan
2 Blood Red Roses - Margaret Lawrence
3 Trying to Save Piggy Sneed - John Irving
4 Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
5 Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
6 Grazing - Ira Sadoff
7 Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
8 On the Road - Jack Kerouac
9 Little Altars Everywhere - Rebecca Wells
10 The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
10 Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
Non-fiction
1 Leaving Pipe Shop - Deborah McDowell
2 Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
3 Microsoft Office 98 for Macs for Dummies - Tom Negrino
4 Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
5 The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger
6 Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
7 Maine Handbook - Kathleen Brandes
8 Carrying Water as a Way of Life - Linda Tatelbaum
9 The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
10 A Civil Action - Jonathan Harr
