Top Ten in Books

Antigone Books best-sellers for the week ending Feb. 1, 2007
  1. Encounters With the Middle East: True Stories of People and Culture That Help You Understand the Region Edited by Nesreen Khashan and Jim Bowman, Travelers' Tales/Solas House ($17.95)
  2. The History of Love Nicole Krauss, W.W. Norton ($13.95)
  3. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin ($15)
  4. Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America Lisa Gray-Garcia, City Lights ($15.95)
  5. A Writer's Coach: The Complete Guide to Writing Strategies That Work Jack Hart, Anchor ($13.95)
  6. 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl Daniel Pinchbeck, Jeremy P. Tarcher ($14.95)
  7. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Michael Pollan, Penguin ($21.95)
  8. Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill) David Cay Johnston, Portfolio ($24.95)
  9. What Is the What Dave Eggers, Vintage ($15.95)
  10. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie, Little, Brown ($16.99)