Reader’s Oasis best-sellers for the week ending Aug. 7, 2005

  1. A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior Charles Bowden, Harcourt Brace ($24)
  2. Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family Charles Bowden, Simon and Schuster ($15)
  3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling, Scholastic ($29.99)
  4. Snow: A Novel Orhan Pamuk, Vintage International ($14.95)
  5. No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy, Knopf ($24.95)
  6. The Sunday Philosophy Club: An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor Books ($12.95)
  7. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead Trade ($14)
  8. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi, Pantheon ($11.95)
  9. How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization Franklin Foer, Harper Perennial ($13.95)
  10. Wisconsin Death Trip Michael Lesy, University of New Mexico Press ($32.95)

This article appears in Aug 11-17, 2005.