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- Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and… 337 copies, 17 reviews
- If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You: True Portraits of Dogs (Author) 158 copies, 3 reviews
- Robert E. Lee (Penguin Lives) 113 copies, 4 reviews
- Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South 110 copies, 1 review
- Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story 80 copies, 3 reviews
- Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans (Crown Journeys) 69 copies, 2 reviews
- Now, Where Were We? 62 copies
- I Am Puppy Hear Me Yap: The Ages of Dog (Author) 60 copies
- I am the cat, don't forget that (Author) 58 copies, 2 reviews
- Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor 56 copies
- Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!: The Oddly Informative News Quiz (Foreword) 52 copies, 2 reviews
- Alphabetter Juice: or, The Joy of Text 45 copies, 2 reviews
- One Fell Soup: Or I'm Just a Bug on the Windshield of Life 42 copies
- First Hubby 40 copies
- Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (Contributor) 496 copies, 5 reviews
- For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (Contributor) 313 copies, 3 reviews
- A Murder, A Mystery, and a Marriage (Foreword, some editions) 237 copies, 5 reviews
- Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (Contributor) 125 copies
- The Best American Essays 1997 (Contributor) 108 copies
- The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work (Contributor) 66 copies
- Best of the Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good… (Contributor) 31 copies
- Sports Guy: In Search of Corkball, Warroad Hockey, Hooters Golf, Tiger… (Foreword) 13 copies, 1 review
- Literary Outtakes (Contributor) 13 copies
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