The top-selling hardcover books on American foreign policy and international affairs. Rankings are based on national sales at Barnes & Noble stores and Barnes & Noble.com.

POSTED NOVEMBER 1, 2005			Last month	Months on list
1		The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50 Purchase at B&N.com	1	7
2		The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq George Packer Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	--	1
3		Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground Robert D. Kaplan Random House, $27.95 Purchase at B&N.com	5	2
4		Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond Viking, $29.95 Purchase at B&N.com	2	10
5		Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating Thomas P. M. Barnett Putnam, $26.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--	1
6		Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War Anthony Shadid Henry Holt, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	4	2
7		Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 Tony Judt Penguin Press, $39.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--	1
8		China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World Ted C. Fishman Scribner, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	8	9
9		The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair Martin Meredith PublicAffairs, $35.00 Purchase at B&N.com	6	3
10		9/11 Commission Report National Commission on Terrorist Attacks W.W. Norton & Company, $19.95 Purchase at B&N.com Barnes & Noble Books, $9.95 Purchase at B&N.com	7	14
11		The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved Alan Dershowitz John Wiley, $22.95 Purchase at B&N.com	3	3
12		The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth Benjamin M. Friedman Knopf, $35.00 Purchase at B&N.com	--	1
13		Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century Mark Leonard PublicAffairs, $20.00 Purchase at B&N.com	10	2
14		Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East Clyde V. Prestowitz Basic Books, $26.95 Purchase at B&N.com	9	6
15		First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan Gary C. Schroen Presidio Press, $25.95 Purchase at B&N.com	11	5

The bestseller list is published monthly by Foreign Affairs magazine. Rankings are based on national sales at Barnes & Noble stores and Barnes & Noble.com in October 2005.

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