Reader’s Oasis best-sellers for the week ending June 12, 2005

  1. Forged by Fire: The Devastation and Renewal of a Mountain Community Mary Ellen Barnes, Vireo House Publishing ($19.95)
  2. Progressive Hollywood: A People’s Film History of the United States Ed Rampell, The Disinformation Co. ($14.95)
  3. What’s the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America Thomas Frank, Owl Books ($14)
  4. The Hummingbird’s Daughter: A Novel Luis Alberto Urrea, Little, Brown ($24.95)
  5. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead Trade ($14)
  6. 1776 David McCullough, Simon and Schuster ($32)
  7. Naked David Sedaris, Back Bay Books ($14.95)
  8. The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler, Atlantic Monthly Press ($23)
  9. Zorro: A Novel Isabel Allende, HarperCollins ($25.95)
  10. Fools Rush In: A True Story of Love, War and Redemption Bill Carter, Wenner Books ($14.95)

This article appears in Jun 16-22, 2005.