Top Ten in Books

Antigone Books best-sellers for the week ending Sept. 18, 2009

1. The Sweet Smell of Home: The Life and Art of Leonard F. Chana

Leonard F. Chana, Susan Lobo and Barbara Chana, University of Arizona ($21.95)

2. Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad

Frances Moore Lappé, Small Planet ($14.95)

3. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall, Knopf ($24.95)

4. Alex and Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process

Irene M. Pepperberg, Harper ($13.99)

5. Journey of Dreams

Marge Pellegrino, Frances Lincoln ($15.95)

6. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

Amy Stewart, Algonquin ($18.95)

7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, Dial ($14)

8. Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to Do About It

Robert Glennon, Island ($27.95)

9. Let Go: A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits

Martine Batchelor, Wisdom ($15.95)

10. A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore, Knopf ($25.95)