Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 3 April 2005

In the 13 months since FA began its BSL, PNM has appeared the greatest number of months (11), while the two next-most frequent are Pete Petersen's book and the volume by Anonymous at 9 each. Held my position at #12 from February. This time I do expect to be my last, because we're now within a month of the paperback coming out.

Here's the complete list (find it online at www.foreignaffairs.org/book/bestsellers):

Foreign Affairs Best Seller List

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 APRIL 1, 2005

1) Collapse by Jared Diamond (Viking), # 1 last month

2) China, Inc. by Ted C. Fishman (Scribner), #2

3) The Case for Democracy by Natan Sharansky (PublicAffairs), #3

4) 9/11 Commission Report by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (Norton), #5

5) Chatter by Patrick Radden Keefe (Random House), #15

6) John Kenneth Galbraith by Richard Parker (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), new

7) The United States of Europe by T. R. Reid (Penguin Press), #6

8) America's Secret War by George Friedman (Doubleday), #8

9) The European Dream by Jeremy Rifkin (Tarcher), #9

10) The Persian Puzzle by Kenneth M. Pollack (Random House), #11

11) Running on Empty by Peter G. Peterson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), #4

12) The Pentagon's New Map by Thomas P.M. Barnett (Putnam), #12

13) The Superpower Myth by Nancy Soderberg (John Wiley & Sons), new

14) Our Oldest Enemy by John J. Miller and Mark Molesky (Doubleday), #13

15) Imperial Hubris by Anonymous (Brassey's), #7