1. 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.
   
   
   
2. 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.
   
   
   
3. 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.
   
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
   
5. Kate Remembered
   by A. Scott Berg
   price: $25.95
   Here are the stories from those countless intimate conversations, and much more. In addition to recording heretofore untold biographical details of her entire phenomenal career and her famous relationships with such men as Spencer Tracy and Howard Hughes, Kate Remembered also tells the amusing, often emotional story of one of the most touching friendships in her final years, and also how she remained one of the most private of all the public figures of her time.
   
   
   
6. The Big House
   by George Howe Colt
   price: $26.00
   This intimate and poignant history of a sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod traces one family's fascinating story and celebrates the perennial joys of summer at the beach. Faced with the sale of the treasured house where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt returned for one last August with his wife and young children.
   
   
   
7. 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.
   
   
   
8. 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.
   
   
   
9. Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left
   by Susan Buck-Morss
   price: $22.00
   Renowned critical theorist Susan Buck-Morss argues convincingly that a global public needs to think past the twin insanities of terrorism and counter-terrorism in order to dismantle regressive intellectual barriers. Surveying the widespread literature on the relationship of Islam to modernity, she reveals that there is surprising overlap where scholars commonly and simplistically see antithesis. Thinking Past Terror situates this engagement with the study of Islam among critical contemporary discourses--feminism, post-colonialism and the critique of determinism.
   
   
   
10. 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.
    
    
    

1. 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.
   
   
   
2. 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.
   
   
   
3. 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.
   
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
   
5. 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.
   
   
   
6. 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.
   
   
   
7. 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.
   
   
   
8. 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.
   
   
   
9. The Crimson Petal and the White
   by Michel Faber
   price: $15.00
   "Faber's bawdy, brilliant third novel tells an intricate tale of love and ambition, and paints a new portrait of Victorian England and its citizens in prose crackling with insight and bravado....The superb plot draws on a wealth of research and briskly moves through the lives of each character-whether major or minor, upstairs or downstairs-gathering force until the fates of all are revealed. A marvelous story of erotic love, sin, familial conflicts and class prejudice, this is a deeply entertaining masterwork that will hold readers captive until the final page." -Publisher's Weekly
   
   
   
10. 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.
    
    
    

* The Harvard Book Store generates a bestseller list, and ranks titles to reflect overall sales for the week July 7 - 13.

July 7 - 13, 2003 Bestseller List

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