Top Ten in Books

Reader's Oasis best-sellers for the week ending Sept. 23, 2005
  1. Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream Barbara Ehrenreich, Metropolitan Books ($24)
  2. Disgrace J.M. Coetzee, Penguin Books ($14)
  3. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash Elizabeth Royte, Little, Brown ($24.95)
  4. Murder Unpunished: How the Aryan Brotherhood Murdered Waymond Small and Got Away With It Thornton W. Price III, University of Arizona Press ($17.95)
  5. The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Penguin ($15)
  6. Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity Lawrence Lessig, Penguin ($15)
  7. A Rumor of Gems Ellen Steiber, Tor Books ($25.95)
  8. Crush: Yale Series of Younger Poets Richard Siken, Yale University Press ($14.95)
  9. The Wisdom of Forgiveness: Intimate Conversations and Journeys Dalai Lama, XIV, Riverhead Books ($14)
  10. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness Edward Abbey, Ballantine Books ($14)