About Assigned Reading:

• Contemporary Reviews and Accounts of The One Woman

About Bestsellers Generally:

• Bear, John. #1 New York Times Best Seller. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1992


• Bonn, Thomas L.  Heavy traffic & high culture: New American Library as literary gatekeeper in the paperback revolution. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1989.


• Cohn, Jan. Romance and the erotics of property. Durham : Duke University Press, 1988.


• Darby, William.  Necessary American fictions: popular literature of  the 1950s. Bowling Green, Oh. : Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1987.


• Fiedler, Leslie A.  The inadvertent epic: from Uncle Tom's cabin to Roots.  New York : Simon and Schuster, 1980.


• Fiedler, Leslie A.  What was literature?: Class culture and mass society.  New York : Simon and Schuster, c1982.


• Gender, language, and myth : essays on popular narrative.  Ed. Glenwood Irons. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1992.


• Haut, Woody, Pulp culture : hardboiled fiction and the Cold War.  London ; New York, NY : Serpent's Tail, 1995.


• Hawkins, Harriett. Classics and trash : traditions and taboos in high literature and popular modern genres.  London : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.


• Hinckley, Karen and Barbara. American best sellers: a reader's guide to popular fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. PS 374 .B45 H56 1989


• Justice, Keith L. Bestseller index: all books, by author, on the lists of Publishers weekly and the New York times through 1990. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1998. Z1033 .B3 J87 1998


• Korda, Michael. Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999. New York, NY: Barnes and Noble, 2001. Z1033 .B3 K67 2001


• Miner, Madonne M.  Insatiable appetites : twentieth-century American women's bestsellers. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984.


• Modleski, Tania, Loving with a vengeance: mass-produced fantasies for women. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1982.


• Mott, Frank Luther. Golden multitudes; the story of best sellers in the United States. New York : Macmillan, 1947. Z1033.B3 M6 1947.


• Political mythology and popular fiction.  Ed. Ernest J. Yanarella and Lee Sigelman. New York : Greenwood Press, c1988.


• The Politics of everyday fear.  Brian Massumi, editor.  Minneapolis : University of Minneapolis Press, c1993.


• Radway, Janice A.,  Reading the romance: women, patriarchy, and popular literature.  Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1984.


• Radway, Janice A.  A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, & Middle-Class Desire. University of North Carolina Press, 1997.


• Roberts, Thomas J.  An aesthetics of junk fiction.  Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1990.


• Sutherland, John  Bestsellers: Popular Fiction of the 1970s.  London : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.


• Wagner-Martin, Linda.  The mid-century American novel, 1935-1965.  New York : Twayne ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1997.


• Whiteside, Thomas, The blockbuster complex: conglomerates, show business, and book publishing.  Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c1981.