Top Ten in Books

Antigone Books best-sellers for the week ending Sept. 4, 2009

1. Unite and Conquer: How to Build Coalitions That Win—and Last

Kyrsten Sinema, Berrett-Koehler ($16.95)

2. The Sweet Smell of Home: The Life and Art of Leonard F. Chana

Leonard F. Chana, Susan Lobo and Barbara Chana, University of Arizona ($21.95)

3. Let Go: A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits

Martine Batchelor, Wisdom ($15.95)

4. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

Jeff Sharlet, Harper Perennial ($15.99)

5. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

Amy Stewart, Algonquin ($18.95)

6. Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad

Frances Moore Lappé, Small Planet ($14.95)

7. Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout, Random House ($14)

8. A Mercy

Toni Morrison, Vintage ($15)

9. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, Dial ($14)

10. Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

Julie Powell, Little, Brown ($7.99)