1. Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor
   by Eric Schlosser
   price: $23.00
   Schlosser, author of "Fast Food Nation," offers an unprecedented view of the nexus of ingenuity, greed, high-mindedness, and hypocrisy that is American culture. He reveals the vast and fascinating workings of the shadow economy by focusing on marijuana, pornography, and illegal migrant workers.
   
   
   
2. Good Faith
   by Jane Smiley
   price: $26.00
   From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes a masterly novel about some very American seductions: money, sex, and real estate. "Good Faith" is an extraordinary story about ordinary people caught up in the exotic 1980s version of the American Dream, as greed and financial game-playing explode on Main Street.
   
   
   
3. Emerson
   by Lawrence Buell
   price: $29.95
   Both an introduction and a fresh contribution to the scholarly literature, Emerson offers a fresh, timely, readable reinterpretation of Emerson's career and significance at the historic moment of his bicentennial.
   
   
   
4. The Language Police
   by Diane Ravitch
   price: $24.00
   In this hard-hitting analysis, the nation's leading historian of American education explains the causes and consequences of the widespread censorship of any potentially offensive language or images from American textbooks.
   
   
   
5. The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means for the United States
   by Ross Terrill
   price: $30.00
   In this enlightening and rigorous book, a leading expert offers a brilliant analysis of how China will finally accept liberalism, and what that will mean for the United States. 12-page insert.
   
   
   
6. Strength for the Journey
   by Peter Gomes
   price: $24.95
   Hailed by Time magazine as one of the best seven preachers in America, Peter Gomes is widely acclaimed as one of America's greatest and most influential thinkers. His new book is a collection of his timeless sermons at Harvard University. With his characteristic eloquence and compassion, quoting from modern pop culture icons as well as from Scripture, Gomes offers us the tools we need to understand the wisdom of the Bible and the joy and inspiration it can bring to everyday life.
   
   
   
7. Regarding the Pain of Others
   by Susan Sontag
   price: $20.00
   In her first full-scale investigation of the rote of imagery in our culture since her now-classic book On Photography defined the terms of the debate twenty-five years ago, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity -- from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz, to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001.
   
   
   
8. Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
   by Elaine Pagels
   price: $24.95
   During the last 25 years, award-winning author Pagels has been on a personal and intellectual quest to understand the origins of Christianity. In this exciting new book, she traces the source to the Gospel of Thomas.
   
   
   
9. 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.
   
   
   
10. The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
    by Jacques Pepin
    price: $26.00
    In this frank and witty memoir, world-renowned chef Jacques Pepin tells how he rose from a frightened 13-year-old apprentice in an Old World kitchen to an Emmy Award-winning TV superstar. The PBS companion program of the same name airs nationwide beginning in June 2003. 32 photos.
    
    
    

1. Granta 81: The Best of the Young British Novelists
   ed. Ian Jack
   price: $14.95
   Contributors to the first two volumes in the "Granta" series include six Booker Award winners and nine recipients of the Whitbread Award. This is a collection of their writings.
   
   
   
2. Everything Is Illuminated
   by Jonathan Safran Foer
   price: $13.95
   A writer journeys to the farmlands of eastern Europe to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Passionate and marked by an indelible humanity, "Everything Is Illuminated" mines the black holes of history and is ultimately a story about searching: for people and places that no longer exist and for the tales that link past and future.
   
   
   
3. Atonement
   by Ian McEwan
   price: $14.00
   McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of "Amsterdam, " has created a symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative combined with the provocation readers have come to expect from this master of English prose.
   
   
   
4. The Russian Debutante's Handbook
   by Gary Shteyngart
   price: $14.00
   This national bestseller is a wildly original, brilliantly crafted novel about a young Russian immigrant's misadventures while trying to figure out what it means to be an American.
   
   
   
5. 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.
   
   
   
6. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
   by Alexander McCall Smith
   price: $11.95
   Combining a wonderfully satisfying reimagination of the mystery with a classic novel of Africa in the tradition of Isak Dinesen, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency tells the story of Precious Ramotswe, a delightfully cunning and a profoundly moral woman who is drawn to her profession to "help people with problems in their lives." Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by evil witchdoctors.
   
   
   
7. 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.
   
   
   
8. Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine
   by Raja Shehadeh
   price: $14.00
   This revealing story of a father-son relationship, the first memoir of its kind by a Palestinian living in the Occupied Territories, is set against the backdrop of Middle East hostilities and more than 30 years under military occupation. Above all, it is a moving description of the daily lives of those who have chosen to remain on their land.
   
   
   
9. Islam in a Globalizing World
   by Thomas Simons
   price: $14.95
   This book takes a historical approach to examining Islam's role in globalization. The author identifies complex historical and geopolitical trends in Islamic history, and constructs from these a clear assessment of contemporary Islam. Most important, the book examines historical trends from a perspective that contributes to an understanding of Islam in the aftermath of September 11.
   
   
   
10. The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Corporate Cons, Globalization, and High-Finance Fraudsters
    by Greg Palast
    price: $14.00
    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.
    
    
    

* The Harvard Book Store generates a bestseller list, and ranks titles to reflect overall sales for the week May 5 - 11.

May 5 - 11, 2003 Bestseller List

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