| This Week | Title | Last Week | Weeks on List |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Three Cups of Tea
Author: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin; Publisher: Penguin; ISBN: 9780143038252
An American's effort to open 50 schools across rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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1 | * |
| 2 |
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Author: Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp; Publisher: Harper Perennial; ISBN: 9780060852566
The Kingsolver family moves to a rural Virginia farm and vows to eat locally for one year.
|
2 | 15 |
| 3 |
Eat, Pray, Love
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert; Publisher: Penguin; ISBN: 9780143038412
The author's yearlong search for spiritual meaning.
|
3 | * |
| 4 |
A New Earth
Author: Eckhart Tolle; Publisher: Plume; ISBN: 9780452289963
This follow-up to The Power of Now is an Oprah Book Club pick.
|
4 | 28 |
| 5 |
Big Russ & Me
Author: Tim Russert; Publisher: Miramax; ISBN: 9781401359652
Russert's bestselling ode to his father.
|
5 | 9 |
| 6 |
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Author: Michael Pollan; Publisher: Penguin; ISBN: 9780143038580
A hard-boiled look at the food chain.
|
7 | 50 |
| 7 |
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Author: Ishmael Beah; Publisher: FSG; ISBN: 9780374531263
The story of a 12-year-old soldier in the civil war in Sierra Leone.
|
-- | 1 |
| 8 |
Dreams From My Father
Author: Barack Obama; Publisher: Three Rivers; ISBN: 9781400082773
An elegant memoir of race and place from the presidential hopeful.
|
6 | * |
| 9 |
The Audacity of Hope
Author: Barack Obama; Publisher: Three Rivers; ISBN: 9780307237705
Hope as a precursor to presidential ambitions. Now available in paperback in time for a surge in the polls.
|
8 | 33 |
| 10 |
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Author: Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein; Publisher: Penguin; ISBN: 9780143113874
Philosophy through humor. Or, is that humor through philosophy?
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9 | 7 |
| 11 |
The Power of Now
Author: Eckhart Tolle; Publisher: New World; ISBN: 9781577314806
An enormously popular guide to spiritual enlightenment by the author of A New Earth.
|
10 | 49 |
| 12 |
The World Without Us
Author: Alan Weisman; Publisher: Picador; ISBN: 9780312427900
What will happen to our planet if humankind is wiped out.
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-- | 1 |
| 13 |
Marley & Me
Author: John Grogan; Publisher: Harper; ISBN: 9780060817091
Irresistible, funny, and finally available in paperback!
|
14 | 21 |
| 14 |
Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions
Author: Christian Lander; Publisher: Random House; ISBN: 9780812979916
Lander's funny blog is also a funny book!
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13 | 2 |
| 15 |
Into the Wild
Author: Jon Krakauer; Publisher: Anchor; ISBN: 9780307387172
This heartbreaking story of the demise of a "lost" young man is now a movie.
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12 | 50 |