Mostly Books best-sellers for the week ending May 5, 2006

  1. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown, Anchor ($7.99)
  2. Blue Shoes and Happiness Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon ($21.95)
  3. Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog John Grogan, William Morrow ($21.95)
  4. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: A Novel Marina Lewycka, Penguin ($14)
  5. The Hummingbird’s Daughter: A Novel Luis Alberto Urrea, Back Bay ($14.95)
  6. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel Lisa See, Random House ($13.95)
  7. The Closers Michael Connelly, Warner ($7.99)
  8. American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century Kevin Phillips, Viking ($26.95)
  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 May 11-17, 2006.