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. 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.
   
   
   
3. Under the Banner of Heaven
   by Jon Krakauer
   price: $26.00
   The story of an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this "divinely inspired" crime, Krakauer constructs a multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, polygamy, and unyielding faith.
   
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
   
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
   by Mark Haddon
   price: $22.95
   Narrated by a 15-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions.
   
   
   
6. 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.
   
   
   
7. 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.
   
   
   
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 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.
   
   
   
10. The Importance of Being Lazy: In Praise of Play, Leisure, and Vacations
    by Al Gini
    price: $22.95
    Without true leisure, Gini says, we are diminished as individuals and as a society. Even if we love our jobs, find creativity, success, and pleasure in our work, we also crave, desire, and need not to work. The Importance of Being Lazy is our road map for learning how to play, doze, gaze, amble, and goof off without guilt.
    
    
    

1. 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.
   
   
   
2. 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.
   
   
   
3. 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.
   
   
   
4. 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
   
   
   
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. 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.
   
   
   
7. Benjamin Franklin
   by Edmund Morgan
   price: $16.00
   The greatest statesman of his age, Benjamin Franklin was also a pioneering scientist, a successful author, the first American postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant. In addition, he was a man of vast contradictions. This bestselling biography by one of our greatest historians offers a compact and provocative new portrait of America's most extraordinary patriot.
   
   
   
8. 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.
   
   
   
9. 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.
   
   
   
10. The Book of Illusions
    by Paul Auster
    price: $14.00
    The Washington Post called Paul Auster, "One of our most inventive and least predictable authors," and in this, his tenth novel, Auster creates the world of Vermont professor David Zimmer. Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Zimmer laughs for the first time when he stumbles upon a clip from a lost silent film while channel surfing one night. He becomes obsessed with the star and that obsession sends him on a journey into a shadow world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love.
    
    
    

* The Harvard Book Store generates a bestseller list, and ranks titles to reflect overall sales for the week July 14 - 20.

July 14 - 20, 2003 Bestseller List

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