Reader’s Oasis bestsellers for the week ending May 28, 2004

  1. Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent’s Eye Katharine Sands, Kalmbach Publishing Co. ($18.95)
  2. There’s a Bobcat in My Backyard: Living With and Enjoying Urban Wildlife Jonathan Hanson, University of Arizona Press ($16.95)
  3. MoveOn’s 50 Ways to Love Your Country: Finding Your Political Voice and Becoming a Catalyst for Change MoveOn.org, Inner Ocean Publishing ($10.95)
  4. Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America Robert B. Reich, Knopf ($24)
  5. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Azar Nafisi Random House ($14)
  6. Beloved Land: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southern Arizona Patricia Preciado Martin with photographs by José Galvez, University of Arizona Press ($17.95)
  7. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor ($11.95)
  8. Life of Pi Yann Martel, Harvest Books ($14)
  9. Naked: Writers Uncover the Way We Live on Earth Edited by Susan Zakin, Four Walls Eight Windows Press ($14)
  10. McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern Issue 13 Editors of McSweeney’s, McSweeney’s ($24)

This article appears in Jun 3-9, 2004.