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Click on a January Bestseller to purchase
Old news is the top news on this week's January Magazine bestseller list. The latest installment of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter saga stays in first place for the fourth consecutive week (a condition likely to continue until the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on the first day of summer) and Michael Moore's Stupid White Men is back after a seven-week absence on our list. More old news: Virginia Woolf's brilliant Mrs. Dalloway -- first published in 1925 -- has seen a tremendous resurgence in popularity -- number five on the January bestseller list again this week -- due to the popularity of the film version of Michael Cunningham's The Hours (number six on our list this week). Don't be surprised if both books hang around on various bestseller lists at least until Oscar time: the film -- with a cast that includes three of Hollywood's leading, leading ladies -- is sure to make a good showing. New to the January list this week: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, is an engaging dual biography of the creation of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the serial killer that haunted it. Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America, by the most elegantly named writer in America, Arianna Huffington, doesn't need much explanation: the title says it all quite well. Another title that explains it all: This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV by Washington über-correspondent Bob Schieffer. This Just In is a news maven's version of a tell-all: though not so much the things he couldn't say, as the things that didn't fit into all those millions of sound bites. Author and history professor Margaret MacMillan's multiple award-winning Paris 1919 makes its first appearance on the January list. Perhaps not surprising in a world currently consumed with war and peace (and not as penned by Tolstoy), MacMillan writes -- and writes brilliantly -- on the topic of the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference: why it failed and what could have been done to save it. The book was originally published in the U.K. in 2001 as Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War.
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