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Foreign Affairs and International Relations Bestsellers, 2006




The journal   Foreign Affairs   is published six times a year by the   Council on Foreign Relations  . It is America's most prestigious journal in the fields of foreign affairs and international relations.

In April, 2004, it began publishing a   monthly list   of bestsellers on its Web site. With the July/August 2004 issue, it began a comparable bimonthly list in its print edition.

Both lists include the top fifteen bestsellers in the fields of foreign affairs and international relations and both are based on national sales at Barnes & Noble stores and Barnes & Noble.com. Some books appear only on monthly online lists; some only on bimonthly printed lists, and some on both lists.

Information about the presence or absence of an index is based on data in the book's MARC tags retrieved from the   Library of Congress Online Catalog  . The table indicates the presence of an index only if the word index appears in the book's MARC field tag 500, usually in a phrase such as Includes index or Includes bibliography and index. It indicates the absence of an index if the word index does not appear in the book's MARC field tag 500 or if field tag 500 is not one of the book's MARC tags. Occasionally, information in the table is based on data in field tag 504 rather than field tag 500.

A summary follows the data about the individual books.


Foreign Affairs Bestsellers for 2006
Monthly lists for January through September
Bimonthly lists for January/February through September/October

Title
Authors
Index?
Lists?

1.

9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Barnes & Noble Books edition)

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

2.

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

Yes

Monthly

 

3.

Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror

George Soros

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

4.

America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy

Francis Fukuyama

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

5.

Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

George Packer

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

6.

Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose

Tony Zinni, Tony Koltz

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

7.

Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating

Thomas P. M. Barnett

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

8.

Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century

Michael Mandelbaum

Yes

Monthly

 
9. China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World Ted C. Fishman Yes Monthly Bimonthly

10.

China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know about the Emerging Superpower

C. Fred Bergsten, Gill Bates

Yes

Monthly

 

11.

Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

John E. Pomfret

Yes

Monthly

 

12.

COBRA II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq

Michael R. Gordon, Bernard E. Trainor

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

13.

Cold War: A New History

John Lewis Gaddis

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly
14. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond Yes Monthly Bimonthly

15.

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire

Morris Berman

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

16.

End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End

Peter W. Galbraith

Yes

Monthly

 

17.

Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy

Noam Chomsky

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly
18. Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair Martin Meredith Yes Monthly Bimonthly

19.

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Thomas E. Ricks

Yes

Monthly

 

20.

Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq

Fouad Ajami

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

21.

Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against America

Walid Phares

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

22.

Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What it Will Take to Win it Back

Jeff Faux

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

23.

Good Fight: Why Liberals - and Only Liberals - Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again

Peter Beinart

Yes

Monthly

 

24.

Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East

Robert Fisk

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

25.

Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam

Mark Bowden

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

26.

House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power

James Carroll

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

27.

Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny

Amartya Sen

Yes

Monthly

 

28.

Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy

Moises Naim

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

29.

Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground

Robert D. Kaplan

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

30.

Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy

Fawez Gerges

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

31.

Looming Tower: Al-Aqeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright

Yes

Monthly

 

32.

Mighty and Almighty: Reflections on America, God and World Affairs

Madeleine Albright

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

33.

Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

Benjamin M. Friedman

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

34.

My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope

L. Paul Bremer, Malcolm McConnell

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

35.

Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right

Daniel Benjamin, Steven Simon

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

36.

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War

Anthony Shadid

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

37.

One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11

Ron Suskind

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

38.

Osama Bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al-Qaeda's Leader

Peter L. Bergen

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

39.

Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

Stephen Kinzer

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

40.

Parliament of Man: The Past, Present and Futue of the United Nations

Paul Kennedy

Yes

Monthly

 

41.

Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945

Tony Judt

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

42.

Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

Rory Stewart

No

Monthly

 

43.

Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future

Vali Nasr

Yes

Monthly

 

44.

State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration

James Risen

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly
45. Three Billion New Capitalists: The End of the Western Dominance and the Rise of Parity Clyde V. Prestowitz Yes   Bimonthly

46.

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying Europe from Within

Bruce Bawer

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly

47.

Without Precedent: The Inside story of the 9/11 Commission

Thomas H. Kean, Lee H. Hamilton

Yes

Monthly

Bimonthly
48. World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century Thomas L. Friedman Yes Monthly Bimonthly

2006 Totals
Monthly Lists for January through September
Bimonthly Lists for January/February through September/October
  Over-
all
  Monthly
lists
  Bimonthly
lists
  Both
lists
Titles: 
# Titles with indexes: 
% Titles with indexes: 
48
47
98%
  47
46
98%
  36
36
100%
  35
35
100%

For information about previous foreign affairs and international relations bestsellers, link to the pages for the years

  Foreign Affairs 2004  
  Foreign Affairs 2005  

For information about weekly hardcover nonfiction bestsellers, link to pages for the years

  2000     2001     2002     2003     2004     2005     2006  

For information about annual hardcover nonfiction bestsellers, link to pages for the periods:

  1975 to 1979     1990 to 1999  
  1980 to 1989     2000 to 2005  

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