1. The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
   by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
   price: $18.95
   The slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom when, in 1773, she became the first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in the English language. The toast of London, lauded by Europeans as diverse as Voltaire and Gibbon, Wheatley was for a time the most famous black woman in the West.
   
   
   
2. White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
   by William Dalrymple
   price: $34.95
   This compelling history of Britain's rule over India relates the true story of James Kirkpatrick, a British resident in the Court of Hyderabad in India, who converted to Islam and spied on the East India Company in the midst of an affair with the great-niece of the region's prime minister. photos.
   
   
   
3. Parecon: Life After Capitalism
   by Michael Albert
   price: $21.00
   "What do you want?" is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation, and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provides an answer: "Participatory Economics"--"Parecon" for short--a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity, and people democratically controlling their own lives.
   
   
   
4. The DaVinci Code
   by Dan Brown
   price: $24.95
   In an exhilarating blend of scholarly intelligence, relentless adventure, and cutting wit, Robert Langdon (first introduced in "Angels Demons") and his new adventure combines the punch of Robert Ludlum, the intriguing historical touch of Umberto Eco, and the nonstop suspense of Michael Crichton.
   
   
   
5. Appetites
   by Caroline Knapp
   price: $24.00
   What do women want? Did Freud have any idea how difficult that question would become for women to answer? In Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts that question and boldly reframes it, asking instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining, and controlling women and their desires? In this, her final book, completed shortly before her death last June, turns her brilliant eye toward how a woman's appetite--for food, love, work, and pleasure--is shaped and constrained by culture.
   
   
   
6. Digressions on Some Poems of Frank O'Hara
   by Joe LeSueur
   price: $25.00
   In this intimate portrait, an unprecedented eyewitness account of New York City life and talent is revealed between the lines of Frank O'Hara's poetry.
   
   
   
7. Positively Fifth Street
   by James McManus
   price: $26.00
   James McManus was sent to Las Vegas by Harper’s to cover the World Series of Poker in 2000, especially the mushrooming progress of women in the $23 million event, and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournament’s prodigal host, purportedly done in by a stripper and her boyfriend with a technique so outré it took a Manhattan pathologist to identify it. Whether a jury would convict the attractive young couple was another story altogether.
   
   
   
8. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
   by Paul Farmer
   price: $27.50
   With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia to the beleaguered villages of Haiti, "Human Rights and the New War on the Poor" uses harrowing stories of life and death in extreme situations to illuminate readers' understanding of human rights.
   
   
   
9. The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox
   by Stephen Jay Gould
   price: $25.95
   For the metaphor of cunning versus persistence that runs through this title, Gould refers to the 7th century B.C., when the Greek soldier-poet Archilochus said that "the fox devises many strategies; the hedgehog knows one great and effective strategy." Before succumbing to cancer last year at 60, Gould had become perhaps the world's most famous evolutionary biologist since Charles Darwin.
   
   
   
10. The Dante Club
    by Matthew Pearl
    price: $24.95
    When a series of gruesome murders erupts in 1865, only Boston's literary elite realize that the style and form of the killings are derived from Dante's "Inferno." Twenty-six-year-old Pearl brilliantly blends fact and fiction in this debut mystery starring Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
    
    
    

1. Three Junes
   by Julia Glass
   price: $14.00
   Told in three intertwined novellas, Three Junes spans Greece, Scotland, and New York to bring the reader into the fold of one memorable Scottish family. Advertising. Author tour. National Book Award Winner.
   
   
   
2. What Went Wrong?
   by Bernard Lewis
   price: $12.95
   In this landmark volume, an authority on the Middle East examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tries to understand why things have changed, how they have been overtaken, overshadowed, and to an increasing extent dominated by the West. 15 illustrations. Map.
   
   
   
3. The Nanny Diaries
   by Emma McLaughlin
   price: $13.95
   With more than 650,000 copies currently in print and atop bestseller lists nationwide, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus' biting satire of the glamorous life on Manhattan's Upper East Side offers both an insider's view and a great read to puncture the glamour of Manhattan's upper class, and reveal the truth behind the Park Avenue veneer. Struggling to graduate from New York University and afford her microscopic studio apartment, Nanny takes a job caring for the only son of the wealthy X family. She rapidly learns the insane amount of juggling involved in ensuring that a Park Avenue wife who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day.
   
   
   
4. Power and Terror
   by Noam Chomsky
   price: $11.95
   Power and Terror, Noam Chomsky's highly anticipated follow-up to 9-11, is drawn from a series of public talks that Chomsky gave during the spring of 2002, as well as a lengthy unpublished interview. It presents Chomsky's latest thinking on terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, and alternatives to militarism and violence as solutions to the world's problems. Chomsky challenges the United States to apply to its own actions the moral standards it demands of others, and arrives at a surprisingly optimistic conclusion rooted in his faith in the power of an informed public.
   
   
   
5. Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
   by Eric Foner
   price: $13.00
   History has become a matter of public controversy, as Americans clash over such things as museum presentations, the flying of the Confederate flag, and reparations for slavery. So whose history is being written? Who owns it?Eric Foner answers these and other questions about the historian's relationship to the world of the past and future in this provocative, even controversial, study of the reasons we care about history--or should.
   
   
   
6. The Secret Life of Bees
   by Sue Monk Kidd
   price: $14.00
   Now in paperback comes the intoxicating debut novel of "one motherless daughter's discover of . . . the strange and wondrous places we find love" ("The Washington Post"). A bestseller in hardcover, Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing work is set in South Carolina in 1964. A movie version is forthcoming from Fox Searchlight.
   
   
   
7. An Intimate Look at the Night Sky
   by Chet Raymo
   price: $16.00
   A unique star guide of 24 star maps accompanied by Raymo's essays highlighting what you can see with the naked eye throughout the year.
   
   
   
8. McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
   edited by Michael Chabon
   price: $13.95
   From Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon and the editors of the award-winning iconoclastic magazine McSweeney's comes this collection of never-before-published stories from America's most popular and innovative writers reinventing the genres they love.
   
   
   
9. The Hours
   by Michael Cunningham
   price: $13.00
   The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare"The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home. By the end of the novel, these three stories intertwine in remarkable ways, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.
   
   
   
10. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
    by Barbara Ehrenreich
    price: $13.00
    A bestseller in hardcover, "Nickel and Dimed" reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way the nation perceives its working poor.
    
    
    

* The Harvard Book Store generates a bestseller list, and ranks titles to reflect overall sales for the week April 21 - 27.

April 21 - 27, 2003 Bestseller List

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