Mostly Books best-sellers for the week ending April 21, 2006

  1. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: A Novel Marina Lewycka, Penguin ($14)
  2. Marley and Me: Live and Love With the World’s Worst Dog John Grogan, William Morrow ($21.95)
  3. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown, Anchor ($7.99)
  4. Sleeping With Schubert: A Novel Bonnie Marson, Ballantine ($13.95)
  5. American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century Kevin Phillips, Viking ($26.95)
  6. The Original Sudoku Editors at Nikoli Publishing, Workman ($8.95)
  7. Blue Shoes and Happiness Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon ($21.95)
  8. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor ($12.95)
  9. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux ($30)
  10. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond, Penguin ($17)

This article appears in Apr 27 – May 3, 2006.