Reader’s Oasis best-sellers for the week ending July 17, 2005

  1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling, Scholastic ($29.99)
  2. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead Trade ($14)
  3. The Sunday Philosophy Club: An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor Books ($12.95)
  4. The Historian Elizabeth Kostova, Little Brown ($25.95)
  5. Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vintage International ($14.95)
  6. The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Penguin ($15)
  7. Blue Highways: A Journey Into America William Least Heat-Moon, Back Bay Books ($14.95)
  8. Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History Jorge Ramos, Rayo ($19.95)
  9. The Flanders Panel Arturo Perez-Reverte, Harvest Books ($14)
  10. Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible’s Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love John Shelby Spong, Harper Collins ($24.95)

This article appears in Jul 21-27, 2005.