Top Ten in Books

Antigone Books' best-sellers for the week ending Sept. 28, 2012

1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie, Little, Brown ($14.99)

2. Learning From the Octopus: How Secrets From Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease

Rafe Sagarin, Basic ($26.99)

3. Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History

Deanne Stillman, Nation ($26)

4. The Best American Essays of the Century

Edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Atwan, Mariner ($19.95)

5. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall, Vintage ($15.95)

6. Beyond Outrage: What Has Gone Wrong With Our Economy and Our Democracy, and How to Fix It

Robert B. Reich, Vintage ($9.99)

7. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Stephen Greenblatt, W.W. Norton ($16.95)

8. How to Be a Woman

Caitlin Moran, Harper ($15.99)

9. F for Effort!: More of the Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers

Richard Benson, Chronicle ($9.95)

10. I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats

Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle ($12.95)