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October 28, 2001
FICTION
Southern California Rating
1 THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY by Michael Chabon (Picador: $15) Cousins in the comics biz.
2 THE PROMETHEUS DECEPTION by Robert Ludlum (St. Martin’s: $7.99) Double-crosses galore in this thriller.
3 ROSES ARE RED by James Patterson (Warner Books: $7.99)
Profiler takes on case of madman turning ever more vicious.
4 DR. DEATH by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine: $7.99) Suspects abound in a euthanasia doctor’s murder.
5 THE BLIND ASSASSIN by Margaret Atwood (Anchor: $14) A tale of two sisters and an unpublished sci-fi novel.
6 SHOPGIRL by Steve Martin (Theia: $10.95) Department store clerk Mirabelle meets an older man too good to be true.
7 BEE SEASON by Myla Goldberg (Vintage: $13) A young girl wins her family’s attention after excelling at spelling bees.
8 GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING by Tracy Chevalier (Plume: $12) The woman who inspired a Vermeer painting.
9 THE FEAST OF LOVE by Charles Baxter (Vintage: $13) Love, sacrifice and redemption in Michigan.
10 THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2001 edited by Barbara Kingsolver (Houghton Mifflin: $13) Updike and more.
NONFICTION
Southern California Rating
1 JIHAD VS. McWORLD by Benjamin Barber (Ballantine: $12.95) Colliding ideologies and the new world order.
2 TALIBAN by Ahmed Rashid (Yale University Press: $14.95) The rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Afghanistan.
3 BIN LADEN by Yossef Bodansky (Prima Publishing, $17.95) A look into what shaped the terrorist leader’s life.
4 ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY by David Sedaris (Little, Brown: $14.95) Wisecracking essays on life in Paris and elsewhere.
5 PERSONAL HISTORY by Katharine Graham (Vintage: $15) A memoir by the late publisher of the Washington Post.
6 EMPIRE by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri (Harvard University Press: $18.95) The political order of globalization.
7 GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton: $15.95) A scientist’s take on how Europe rose to dominance.
8 A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS by Dave Eggers (Vintage: $14) A 22-year-old raises his kid brother.
9 FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM by Thomas L. Friedman (Anchor: $15.95) A look at the Arab-Israeli conflict.
10 AFGHANISTAN IN A NUTSHELL by Amanda Roraback (Enisen Publishing: $4.95) Facts, figures and background.
