Harvard Book Store: Our Bestseller List for October 20, 2003


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The Harvard Book Store's bestseller list*
for the week of October 20 - October 26, 2003.
These bestseller titles were discounted 20% from our regular prices thru October 26th.

Bestselling Hardcover Titles

1. The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp price: $25.00 Tharp's time-tested techniques will help everybody reach their greatest creative potential, in a clear, easy-to-follow program that lifts the veil off the creative process and opens the door to the artist in everyone.
2. Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore price: $24.95 Fresh on the heels of his runaway New York Times bestselling Stupid White Men, Moore returns with a bold but hilarious act of sedition as he seeks to overthrow the "Thief in Chief" and effect the kind of grass roots change that will shake the country.
3. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken price: $24.95 Once again, the author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations trains his subversive wit directly on the contemporary political scene, leaving the powers-that-be in tatters and his audience in hysterics.
4. 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.
5. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri price: $24.00 Expanding on her signature themes of the immigrant experience, the clash of culture, and the tangled ties of generations, Lahiri brings to her terrifically poignant first novel the remarkable powers of emotion and insight that have drawn more than half a million readers to her debut story collection.
6. Doing Our Own Thing by John McWhorter price: $26.00 In his provocative new book, McWhorter draws the line when it comes to how cultural change is turning the English language upside down in America today, and how public English is being overwhelmed by street English, with serious consequences for our writing, our music, and our society.
7. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem price: $26.00 From the National Book Critics Award winner comes a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends from a Brooklyn neighborhood, one black and one white, and their adventures in late 20th-century America.
8. Brick Lane by Monica Ali price: $25.00 A stunningly accomplished debut and already an international sensation--the story of one outsider's quest to find her voice. What could not be changed must be borne. And since nothing could be changed, everything had to be borne. This principle ruled her life.
9. The Adventures of Augie March 50th Anniversary Edition by Saul Bellow price: $29.95 The Adventures of Augie March set the stage for Bellow's Nobel Prize Award in 1976 and established him as a crucial voice that demanded to be heard. Fifty years later, it remains the best loved of Bellow's works as new readers discover this vital, truly American masterpiece.
10. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre price: $23.00 In the town jail of Martirio, Texas--under the terrifying care of the dynastic Gurie family, and wearing only his New Jack trainers and underpants--15-year-old Vernon Little is in trouble. His friend, the mysterious Jesus, has just blown away 16 of his classmates before turning the gun on himself.

Bestselling Paperback Titles

1. Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee price: $13.00 Set in post-apartheid Cape Town, Professor David Laurie attempts to relate to his daughter, Lucy, and to a society with new racial complexities. But that is disrupted by an afternoon of violence that changes him and his daughter in ways he could never have foreseen.
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. You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett price: $13.00 Nine stories of surpassing maturity, poise, and intelligence that dramatize sometimes harrowing psychological situations with astonishing emotional effect.
4. The Best American Essays 2003 edited by Anne Fadiman price: $13.00 Since 1986, "The Best American Essays" has gathered the most interesting and provocative writing of the year. This year's volume is terrifically diverse, with subjects ranging from driving lessons to animal rights to citizenship in times of emergency.
5. The Best American Short Stories 2003 by Walter Mosley price: $13.00 No other annual story collection delivers the quality, excitement, and visibility of the renowned Best American Short Stories. This year's volume surprises with selections chosen by Walter Mosley from magazines that range from Esquire to Tin House.
6. Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee price: $13.00 In a south Africa turned by war, Michael K. sets out to take his ailing mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies.
7. Ignorance by Milan Kundera price: $12.95 A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history?
8. A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury by Aaron McGruder price: $16.95 Featuring more than 700 strips (more than 400 never collected in book form) and including the much-debated and often-banned post-9/11 strips, this must-have Boondocks comics collection will delight hardcore fans.
9. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri price: $13.00 Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and a baffling new world, the characters in Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations.
10. Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds by Harold Bloom price: $19.95 In the tradition of the bestselling the Western Canon, Genius is a monumental achievement of scholarship that offers a series of brief parallel appreciations of 100 of the greatest creative minds of all time.
* The Harvard Book Store generates a bestseller list, and ranks titles to reflect overall sales for the week October 14 - October 19. October 14, 2003 Bestseller List top of page