Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 5 September 2004

Okay, at least one totally self-congratulary post (if you discount the previous two). I mean, who knows when I'll ever be able to do this again.

Here's the top ten on Amazon right now:

1) Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry

by John E. O'Neill, Jerome R. Corsi

2) Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel

by Susanna Clarke

3) The Pentagon's New Map

by Thomas P. M. Barnett

4) Trace (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)

by Patricia Cornwell

5) The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

6) American Soldier

by Tommy Franks, Malcolm McConnell

7) The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown (Author)

8) Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order

by Mark Crispin Miller

9) The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, Book 7)

by Stephen King

10) Angels & Demons

by Dan Brown

Here's the top ten from B&N:

1) Unfit for Command

Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry

John E. O'Neill / Hardcover

2) Trace (A Kay Scarpetta Novel)

Patricia Cornwell / Hardcover

3) Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

Susanna Clarke / Hardcover

4) The Dark Tower VII

The Dark Tower

Stephen King / Hardcover

5) American Soldier

Tommy R. Franks / Hardcover

6) The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown / Hardcover

7) The 9/11 Commission Report

The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (Authorized Edition)

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks / Paperback

8) The Pentagon's New Map

War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Barnett / Hardcover

9) The South Beach Diet

The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss

Arthur Agatston / Hardcover

10) Eats, Shoots & Leaves

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Lynne Truss / Hardcover

Gotta be happy to be doing battle with the Davinci Code and Stephen King at the same time! No matter how brief it is, the taste of single-digits is pretty heady stuff.