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What They're Reading on College Campuses

 
1. The Lost Symbol
by Dan Brown
1

2. Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
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3. The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
2

4. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
3

5. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
4

6. The Wild Things
by Dave Eggers
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7. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
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8. The Last Song
by Nicholas Sparks
7

9. Push
by Sapphire
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10. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
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The Chronicle's list of best-selling books was compiled from information supplied by stores serving the following campuses: American U., Beloit College, Brown U., Case Western Reserve U., College of William and Mary, Drew U., Florida State U., George Washington U., Georgetown U., Georgia State U., Harvard U., James Madison U., Johns Hopkins U., Kent State U., Pennsylvania State U. at University Park, Stanford U., State U. of New York at Buffalo, Tulane U., U. of California at Berkeley, U. of Chicago, U. of Florida, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U. of Miami, U. of New Hampshire, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U. of North Dakota, U. of North Texas, U. of Northern Colorado, U. of Oklahoma at Norman, U. of Nebraska at Lincoln, Vanderbilt U., Washington State U., Washington U. in St. Louis, Wayne State U., Williams College, Winthrop College, and Xavier U. (Ohio).

Reports, which include data provided by Barnes & Noble and the Follett Higher Education Group, are for sales of hardcover and paperback trade books in October.

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