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Tariq Ali, author of The Clash of Fundamentalisms, our no. 4 bestseller

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1. STUPID WHITE MENby Michael Moore Regan Books, $24.95
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2. ATONEMENT by Ian McEwanDoubleday, $26
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3. EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATEDby Jonathan Safran FoerHoughton Mifflin, $24
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4. THE CLASH OF FUNDAMENTALISMSby Tariq AliVerso, $22
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5. SMALL WONDERby Barbara Kingsolver HarperCollins, $23.95
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6. THE NANNY DIARIESby Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus St. Martin's Press, $24.95
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7. THE CADENCE OF GRASSby Thomas McGuane Knopf, $24
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8. THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN'S PIER by Ann PackerKnopf, $24
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9. MASTER OF THE SENATEby Robert A. Caro Knopf, $35
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10. MR. POTTERby Jamaica Kincaid Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $20
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PAPERBACK

1. 9-11 by Noam ChomskySeven Stories Press, $8.95
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2. EMPIRE FALLSby Richard RussoVintage, $14.95
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3. NICKEL AND DIMEDby Barbara EhrenreichOwl Books, $13
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4. BEL CANTOby Ann PatchettHarperPerennial, $15
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5. HOW TO BE GOOD by Nick Hornby Riverhead, $13
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6. FAST FOOD NATIONby Eric SchlosserHarperCollins, $13.95
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7. PERPETUAL WAR FOR PERPETUAL PEACEby Gore VidalThunder's Mouth Press, $10
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8. THE METAPHYSICAL CLUBby Louis MenandFarrar, Straus & Giroux, $15
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9. UNDERSTANDING POWERby Noam ChomskyThe New Press, $19.95
   
   
10. TERRORISM AND WARby Howard ZinnSeven Stories Press, $9.95
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Bailey/Coy Books Seattle, WA; Black Oak Books Berkeley, CA; Book Soup West Hollywood, CA; Book Woman Austin, TX; Canterbury BooksellersMadison, WI; City Lights Bookstore San Francisco, CA; Cody's Books Berkeley, CA; Fact & Fiction Missoula, MT; Farley's Bookshop New Hope, PA; Harvard Book Store Cambridge, MA; Labyrinth Books New York, NY; Left Bank Books St. Louis, MO; Midnight Special BookstoreSanta Monica, CA; Politics & Prose Washington, D.C.; Posman Books New York, NY; Prairie Lights BookstoreIowa City, IA; The Regulator Bookshop Durham, NC; Ruminator Books St. Paul, MN; St. Mark's Bookshop New York, NY; Seminary Co-operative Bookstore, Inc. Chicago, IL; Shaman Drum Bookshop Ann Arbor, MI; That Bookstore in Blytheville Blytheville, AR; Women & Children First Chicago, IL.