Foreign Affairs Bestsellers - July/August 2008

1. The Post-American World. Fareed Zakaria. Norton, $25.95. [New Listing]
2. The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century. Steve Coll. Penguin Press, $35.00. [New Listing]
3. Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West. Benazir Bhutto. Harper, $27.95. [New Listing]
4. War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism. Douglas J. Feith. Harper, $27.95. [New Listing]
5. America: Our Next Chapter; Tough Questions, Straight Answers. Chuck Hagel with Peter Kaminsky. Ecco, $25.95. [New Listing]
6. Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq. Michael Scheuer. Free Press, $27.00. [Previous rank: 2]
7. Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad. Andrew C. McCarthy. Encounter Books, $27.00. [New Listing]
8. The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes. Norton, $22.95. [Previous rank: 8]
9. A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World. William J. Bernstein. Atlantic Monthly Press, $30.00. [New Listing]
10. Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making. David Rothkopf. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.00. [New Listing]
11. Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century. Philip Bobbitt. Knopf, $35.00. [New Listing]
12. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Naomi Klein. Metropolitan Books, $28.00. [Previous rank: 6]
13. The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order. Parag Khanna. Random House, $29.00. [Previous rank: 12]
14. Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. Muhammad Yunus. PublicAffairs, $26.00. [Previous rank: 4]
15. Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East. Robin Wright. Penguin Press, $26.95. [Previous rank: 11]

There was another big turnover in the list between May/June and July/August 2008, with nine new listing. The top five slots are all held by new entrants, while the bottom four are books from previous lists. Several of these were new on the May/June list. I’m somewhere in the middle of Dreams and Shadows at the moment. I have posted a review of George Weigel’s Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism, which was in ninth place on the May/June list.

If you happen to have read any of these books, I’d enjoy hearing your impressions. If you’re prepared to write a review suitable for posting, please let me know by leaving a comment with this post.