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The Harvard Book Store's bestseller list*
for the week of July 28 - August 4, 2003.

These bestseller titles were discounted 20% from our regular prices thru August 4th.



Bestselling Hardcover Titles


  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. 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.


  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. 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.


  6. 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.


  7. 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.


  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 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.


  10. Platform
    by Michel Houellebecq
    price: $25.00
    story of Michel Renault, a bureaucrat who prefers his pleasures prepackaged, whether game shows, pornography, or frozen dinners. After his father dies, he takes a group tour to Thailand, where--disgusted by his fellow travelers, and too bashful to pursue the awkward and attractive Valerie--he frequents massage parlors and concludes that Western society has lost any sense of the sensual, exotic "other."


Bestselling Paperback Titles

  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 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.


  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. 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.


  7. Children of Crisis: Selections from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Five-Volume Children of Crisis Series With a New Introduction by the Author
    by Robert Coles
    price: $22.95
    In the 1950s Robert Coles began studying, living among, and above all listening to American children. The results of his efforts -- revealed in five volumes published between 1967 and 1977 -- constitute one of the most searching and vigorous social studies ever undertaken by one person in the United States.


  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. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    by J.K. Rowling
    price: $8.99
    Harry Potter is back in paperback! A teenager pitching headfirst into the world of near adulthood, Harry returns to Hogwarts for his fourth year. All of the familiar characters are back along with several new ones in a tale that will make this book another favorite among Muggles of all ages.


  10. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    by Patrick Suskind
    price: $13.00
    Suskind's novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion--his sense of smell--leads to murder. In the slums of 18th-century France, an infant is born with one sublime gift--an absolute sense of smell. But he is not satisfied with the perfume of flowers, he becomes obsessed with an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"--the scent of a beautiful young virgin. A haunting tale of murder and sensual depravity.



* The Harvard Book Store generates a bestseller list, and ranks titles to reflect overall sales for the week July 21 - 28.

July 21 - 28, 2003 Bestseller List

    

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