The Book Sense Politics & Current Events Bestseller List

1.

The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman, Picador, $16, 9780312425074

2.

The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein, Metropolitan, $28, 9780805079838

3.

The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright, Vintage, $15.95, 9781400030842

4.

The Conscience of a Liberal
Paul Krugman, Norton, $25.95, 9780393060690

5.

The End of America
Naomi Wolf, Chelsea Green, $13.95, 9781933392790

6.

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt, FSG, $26, 9780374177720

7.

Blackwater
Jeremy Scahill, Nation, $26.95, 9781560259794

8.

Dead Certain
Robert Draper, Free Press, $28, 9780743277280

9.

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
Ann Coulter, Crown Forum, $24.95, 9780307353450

10.

The Assault on Reason
Al Gore, Penguin Press, $25.95, 9781594201226

11.

Power to the People
Laura Ingraham, Regnery, $27.95, 9781596985162

12.

Supercapitalism
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $25, 9780307265616

13.

It's Getting Ugly Out There
Jack Cafferty, Wiley, $24.95, 9780470144794

14.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins, Plume, $15, 9780452287082

15.

Broken Government
John W. Dean, Viking, $25.95, 9780670018208

16.

The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama, Crown, $25, 9780307237699

17.

Culture Warrior
Bill O'Reilly, Broadway, $14.95, 9780767920933

18.

Life's a Campaign
Chris Matthews, Random House, $24.95, 9781400065288

19.

Legacy of Ashes
Tim Weiner, Doubleday, $27.95, 9780385514453

20.

The End of Faith
Sam Harris, Norton, $13.95, 9780393327656

21.

Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
Jimmy Carter, S&S, $15, 9780743285032

22.

What We Say Goes
Noam Chomsky, Metropolitan, $15, 9780805086713

23.

The Greatest Story Ever Sold
Frank Rich, Penguin, $15, 9780143112341

24.

The Lemon Tree
Sandy Tolan, Bloomsbury, $14.95, 9781596913431

25.

Takeove
Charlie Savage, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316118040