TT: Very strange bedfellows

I’ve been keeping an amused eye on the books, CD, and DVDs purchased by people who order an advance copy of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong from Amazon. Some, like The Skeptic, Gary Giddins’ Satchmo, and Robin Kelley’s new biography of Thelonious Monk, seem reasonably plausible. Others are…well, less so.
Here are some of the items that have been paired with Pops on Amazon’s “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought” module:
• Brian Kellow’s Ethel Merman: A Life
• Bob Dylan’s Christmas in the Heart
• Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
• Douglas G. Brinkley’s The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
• Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun
• The Joan Crawford Collection, Vol. 2
• William Maxwell: Early Novels and Stories
• Michael Burleigh’s Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism
• Drew Gilpin Faust’s This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
• The Letters of Noël Coward
And here’s the weirdest co-purchase of all:
• James Wood’s How Fiction Works