Bestsellers are, by definition, books that many readers read (or at least purcha

Bestsellers are, by definition, books that many readers read (or at least purchase.) How can we understand the possible outcomes and implications of different modes of reading bestsellers (such as therapeutic, anthropological/exoticizing, uncritical/critical, status/contract, Orientalist)? You might think about how readers’ approaches to a text intersect with the postcolonial author’s burden of representation (as theorized by Brouillette). You might also frame your answer in terms of the positive, negative, or other aspects of a book being chosen by Oprah for her book club, including perhaps Rita Barnard’s humility about the potentially limited appeal of how literature professors like to read. You might also consider the extent to which readers play a role in any given text becoming a “single story,” or what role readers play in the “machine” that we have discussed with regard to global bestsellers.
Refer to
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (2003)
Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory (1995)
Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)

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