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.
Foreign Affairs Bestsellers for 2006
Monthly lists for January through September
Bimonthly lists for January/February through September/October
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9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Barnes & Noble Books edition)
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National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
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Yes
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9/11 Commission Report: Fully Updated with Controversial Third Monograph and Never-Before-Published Progress Reports from the 9/11 Commissioners
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National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
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Yes
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3.
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Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror
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George Soros
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Yes
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4.
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America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
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Francis Fukuyama
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Yes
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Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
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George Packer
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Yes
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Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose
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Tony Zinni, Tony Koltz
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Yes
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Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating
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Thomas P. M. Barnett
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Yes
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Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century
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Michael Mandelbaum
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Yes
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China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
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Ted C. Fishman
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Yes
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10.
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China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know about the Emerging Superpower
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C. Fred Bergsten, Gill Bates
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Yes
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Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
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John E. Pomfret
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Yes
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COBRA II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
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Michael R. Gordon, Bernard E. Trainor
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Yes
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13.
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Cold War: A New History
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John Lewis Gaddis
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Yes
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14.
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Jared Diamond
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Yes
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Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
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Morris Berman
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Yes
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End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
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Peter W. Galbraith
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Yes
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Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
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Noam Chomsky
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Yes
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Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair
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Martin Meredith
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Yes
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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Thomas E. Ricks
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Yes
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20.
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Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq
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Fouad Ajami
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Yes
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21.
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Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against America
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Walid Phares
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Yes
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22.
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Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What it Will Take to Win it Back
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Jeff Faux
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Yes
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23.
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Good Fight: Why Liberals - and Only Liberals - Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again
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Peter Beinart
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Yes
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24.
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Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East
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Robert Fisk
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Yes
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25.
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
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Mark Bowden
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Yes
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26.
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House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
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James Carroll
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Yes
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27.
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Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
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Amartya Sen
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Yes
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28.
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Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
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Moises Naim
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Yes
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29.
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Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground
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Robert D. Kaplan
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Yes
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30.
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Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy
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Fawez Gerges
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Yes
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31.
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Looming Tower: Al-Aqeda and the Road to 9/11
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Lawrence Wright
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Yes
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32.
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Mighty and Almighty: Reflections on America, God and World Affairs
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Madeleine Albright
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Yes
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33.
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Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
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Benjamin M. Friedman
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Yes
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34.
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My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope
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L. Paul Bremer, Malcolm McConnell
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Yes
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35.
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Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right
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Daniel Benjamin, Steven Simon
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Yes
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36.
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Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
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Anthony Shadid
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Yes
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37.
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One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
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Ron Suskind
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Yes
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38.
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Osama Bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al-Qaeda's Leader
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Peter L. Bergen
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Yes
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39.
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Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
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Stephen Kinzer
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Yes
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40.
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Parliament of Man: The Past, Present and Futue of the United Nations
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Paul Kennedy
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Yes
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41.
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Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945
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Tony Judt
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Yes
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42.
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Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
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Rory Stewart
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No
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43.
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Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
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Vali Nasr
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Yes
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44.
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State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
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James Risen
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Yes
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45.
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Three Billion New Capitalists: The End of the Western Dominance and the Rise of Parity
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Clyde V. Prestowitz
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Yes
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46.
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While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying Europe from Within
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Bruce Bawer
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Yes
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Without Precedent: The Inside story of the 9/11 Commission
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Thomas H. Kean, Lee H. Hamilton
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Yes
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48.
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World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
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Thomas L. Friedman
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