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 SEPTEMBER 1, 2006			Last month	Months on list
1		The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century [Updated and Expanded] Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27.50 Purchase at B&N.com	2	17
2		Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq Thomas E. Ricks The Penguin Press, $27.95 Purchase at B&N.com | Read the review	--	--
3		The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright Knopf, $27.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--
4		The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 Ron Suskind Simon & Schuster, $27.00 Purchase at B&N.com	1	2
5		The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future Vali Nasr W.W. Norton & Company, $25.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--
6		Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton Knopf, $25.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--
7		9/11 Commission Report: Fully Updated with Controversial Third Monograph and Never-Before-Published Progress Reports from the 9/11 Commissioners National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Barnes & Noble Books, $9.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--	22
8		Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam Mark Bowden Atlantic Monthly Press, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	3	3
9		The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq Rory Stewart Harcourt, $25.00 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--
10		The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs Madeleine Albright HarperCollins, $25.95 Purchase at B&N.com	4	3
11		Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China John E. Pomfret Henry Holt & Company, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--
12		The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End Peter W. Galbraith Simon & Schuster, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com | Read the review	7	1
13		The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq Fouad Ajami Free Press, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com | Read the review	6	1
14		Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor Pantheon, $27.95 Purchase at B&N.com | Read the review	8	5
15		Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy Noam Chomsky Metropolitan Books, $24.00 Purchase at B&N.com	5	4

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 August 2006.

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