1. Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales
   by Jake Halpern
   price: $23.00
   Funny, insightful, and often moving, Braving Home introduces readers to modern American pioneers. Throughout his journey, Halpern explores the value of rootedness in an age when society is more mobile than ever.
   
   
   
2. Living History
   by Hillary Rodham Clinton
   price: $28.00
   One of the most intelligent and influential women in America reflects on her eight years as First Lady of the United States in a revealing book sharing the fascinating story of her White House years that is personal, political, and news making. Mrs. Clinton looks back on her singular journey through the political and cultural arenas of American life. She shares the untold story of her White House years and recalls the challenging process by which she came to define herself as a wife, a mother, and a formidable politician in her own right.
   
   
   
3. Reading Lolita in Tehran
   by Azar Nafisi
   price: $23.95
   Reading Lolita in Tehran is the astonishing true story of young women who met in secret each week to read and talk about forbidden Western classics--and their lives and loves--in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This book transcends categorization as memoir, literary criticism or social history, though it is superb as all three. Literature professor Nafisi returned to her native Iran after a long education abroad, remained there for some 18 years, and left in 1997 for the United States, where she now teaches at Johns Hopkins.
   
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
   
5. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
   by Marjane Satrapi
   price: $17.95
   An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Illustrations.
   
   
   
6. 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.
   
   
   
7. Collected Poems
   by Robert Lowell
   price: $45.00
   The poems of America's preeminent postwar poet are collected for the first time in this volume which includes Lowell's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Lord Weary's Castle" and several poems never previously collected, as well as a selection of Lowell's intriguing drafts.
   
   
   
8. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
   by Walter Isaacson
   price: $30.00
   Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father was an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder from a leather-aproned shopkeeper to a socialite who dined with kings. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours.
   
   
   
9. Make Way for Ducklings
   by Robert McCloskey
   price: $16.99
   Caldecott-winning illustrations make this story about Mr. and Mrs. Mallard looking for a safe place to bring up their ducklings come to life. During a rest stop in Boston's Public Garden, they think they may have found the perfect spot. First published in 1941.
   
   
   
10. Reefer Madness
    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.
    
    
    

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. The Life of Pi
   by Yann Martel
   price: $14.00
   The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger.
   
   
   
3. 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.
   
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
   
5. Atonement
   by Ian McEwan
   price: $14.00
   Brilliant, voluble, cranky, a genius of political manipulation but also a true patriot and idealist, Cicero was Rome's most feared politician, one of the greatest lawyers and statesmen of all times. Machiavelli, Queen Elizabeth, John Adams and Winston Churchill all studied his example. No man has loomed larger in the political history of mankind. In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony Everitt plunges us into the fascinating, scandal-ridden world of ancient Rome in its most glorious heyday.
   
   
   
6. Seabiscuit
   by Laura Hillenbrand
   price: $15.95
   This New York Times bestseller tells the unforgettable true story of the little horse that could: Seabiscuit, a thoroughbred with hopelessly crooked knees who was coached to championship status by trainer Tom Smith during the 1930s. Following the trail of this unlikely winner, journalist Hillenbrand reconstructs the events of Seabiscuit's career, bringing to vivid life figures like Charles Howard, the automobile tycoon who owned him, and Red Pollard, his jockey.
   
   
   
7. Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
   by Steve Olson
   price: $14.00
   A finalist for the National Book Award, this work follows 150,000 years of human history, tracing the origins of modern humans and the migration of our ancestors throughout the world. Maps throughout.
   
   
   
8. White Teeth
   by Zadie Smith
   price: $14.00
   At the center of this invigorating and hilarious novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, hapless veterans of World War II. Set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire's past as it barrels toward the future, "White Teeth" is an international bestseller now available in paperback.
   
   
   
9. Virgin Blue
   by Tracy Chevalier
   price: $14.00
   Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin--two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blue propels her on a quest to uncover her family's French ancestry. As the novel unfolds--alternating between Ella's story and that of Isabelle du Moulin four hundred years earlier--a common thread emerges that unexpectedly links the two women.
   
   
   
10. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
    by Anthony Everitt
    price: $14.95
    Brilliant, voluble, cranky, a genius of political manipulation but also a true patriot and idealist, Cicero was Rome's most feared politician, one of the greatest lawyers and statesmen of all times. Machiavelli, Queen Elizabeth, John Adams and Winston Churchill all studied his example. No man has loomed larger in the political history of mankind. In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony Everitt plunges us into the fascinating, scandal-ridden world of ancient Rome in its most glorious heyday.
    
    
    

* The Harvard Book Store generates a bestseller list, and ranks titles to reflect overall sales for the week June 30 - July 6.

June 30 - July 6, 2003 Bestseller List

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