![]() ![]() ![]() The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur □□īook of Longing by Leonard Cohen (HC) □□Ī Beautiful Composition of Broken by r.h. The Divine Comedy by Dante, translated by Allen Mandelbaum Paradise Lost by John Milton, edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. The Essential Rumi by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles The Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen (HC) □□ The Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen (TP) □□ When we compare the top 10 poetry books since BookNet started collecting sales data in 2005 until the year before the publication of Milk and Honey (2005-2014) against a similar list including the years afterwards (2005-2018), we find some incredible things. Since BookNet began collecting sales data (October 2005), Milk and Honey comes in at #84. Looking at print book sales in Canada over the past five years (as tracked in BNC SalesData since the week ending March 24, 2013), Milk and Honey ranks at #13 in terms of units sold, with The Sun and Her Flowers not far behind at #21. ![]()
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