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 OCTOBER 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	1	18
2		The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright Knopf, $27.95 Purchase at B&N.com	3	1
3		Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq Thomas E. Ricks The Penguin Press, $27.95 Purchase at B&N.com | Read the review	2	1
4		Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War Michael Isikoff and David Corn Crown, $25.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--
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	5	1
6		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	7	23
7		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	4	3
8		Blood Money: A Story of Wasted Billions, Lost Lives and Corporate Greed in Iraq T. Christian Miller Little, Brown and Company, $24.99 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--
9		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	6	1
10		The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs Madeleine Albright HarperCollins, $25.95 Purchase at B&N.com	10	4
11		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	12	2
12		Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone Rajiv Chandrasekaran Knopf, $25.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--
13		Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance Ian Buruma The Penguin Press, $24.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--
14		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	13	2
15		J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall Ian Bremmer Simon & Schuster, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	--	--

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 September 2006.

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