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McCormick Book Inn specializes
in regional titles
but is also
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"...as important as the crisis in American book reviewing is, the underlying crisis in reading is practically sawing the country in half. Forget red states and blue states. The implications of a republic where half read and the other doesn't -- not can't, just doesn't -- are simply horrifying."

 DAVID KIPEN
(SALON.com)
5-9-07

*Please keep in mind that because
we're in business to sell books, our home-grown "reviews" by definition are probably biased. Then again, our Delta mamas trained us to not say anything if we couldn't say something nice. Therefore, when we include a positive view we mean it. And when we offer an occasional mama-defying negative opinion, rest assured, we are sincere!

  But, are all "reviewers" as open about their possible agendas? We found this 2004 Slate article timeless:

What's With All the "National Best Sellers"?

How so many books get to the top of the charts.

in SLATE

Walk into a bookstore, and it can seem as though every book is billed as a "national best seller." It's not hard to explain why: There are numerous best-seller lists on which to base the claim, and the lists don't always anoint the same books. On Thursday, for example, six of the most prominent top-10 fiction lists included 22 different titles. How do these best-seller lists work? And why don't they all list the same books?...

read more at this link within our website
SLATE on BESTSELLERS

Booklist Online

The following link is for Publisher's Weekly's list of bestselling hardcover books for the entire century. This archive presents all of those bestsellers (top 10 annually) from this century. It is a data feature only presented by Cader Books. Bestseller Lists 1950-1995

National Book Award Authors from 1950 to Present

The Foundation's website now has a full list of National Book Award Winners and Finalists from 1950 to present. The list, in down-loadable PDF form, includes the names of the authors and the year and title of the work for which they were honored. To view a PDF of the list, click here: LINK

As a class I suppose the Southern aristocrat is extinct, but what that class despised as vulgar and treasured as excellent is still despised  and treasured by individuals scattered thickly from one end of the South to the other. Those individuals born into a world of tradesfolk are still aristocrats, with an uncanny ability to recognize their kind. Their distinguishing characteristic probably is that their hearts are set, not on the virtues which make surviving possible, but on those which make it worth while.

William Alexander Percy
Lanterns on the Levee