The Birds and Bees ... and Other Creatures Bestseller List

Posted Monday, Aug 8, 2005

Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide for the eight-week period ending August 7.

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The Birds and Bees ... and Other Creatures Bestseller List

1.

The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
Susan Casey, Henry Holt, $25, 080507581X

2.

The Secret Life of Lobsters
Trevor Corson, Perennial, $13.95, 0060555599

3.

The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong
Donald Kroodsma, Houghton Mifflin, $28, 0618405682

4.

Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Robert Sullivan, Bloomsbury, $14.95, 1582344779

5.

How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher
Simon Barnes, Pantheon, $17.95, 0375423559

6.

The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal
Vicki Constantine Croke, Random House, $25.95, 0375507833

7.

To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession
Dan Koeppel, Hudson Street, $24.95, 1594630011

8.

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
David Allen Sibley, Knopf, $19.95, 0679451218

9.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region
John Bull, Knopf, $19.95, 0679428526

10.

The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
Tim Gallagher, Houghton Mifflin, $25, 0618456937

11.

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
David Allen Sibley, Knopf, $19.95, 067945120X

12.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders: North America
Lorus J. Milne, Margery Milne, Knopf, $19.95, 0394507630

13.

The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
Mark Obmascik, Free Press, $13, 0743245466

14.

Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey: The Sweet Liquid Gold That Seduced the World
Holley Bishop, Free Press, $24, 0743250214

15.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Western Region
Miklos D.F. Udvardy, Knopf, $19.95, 0679428518

16.

Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
Mark Kurlansky, Penguin, $14, 0140275010

17.

Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America
Kenn Kaufman, Houghton Mifflin, $18.95, 0618574239

18.

All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot, St. Martin's, $7.99, 0312965788

19.

Peterson Field Guides: Western Birds
Roger Tory Peterson, Houghton Mifflin, $22, 061813218X

20.

The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears
Nick Jans, Dutton, $24.95, 0525948864

21.

Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds: Eastern Region
Donald and Lillian Stokes, Little Brown, $8.95, 0316818119

22.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians
John L. Behler, Knopf, $19.95, 0394508246

23.

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds: North America
National Geographic (Eds.), National Geographic, $21.95, 0792268776

24.

Book of North American Birds
Reader's Digest (Eds.), Reader's Digest, $19.95, 0762105763

25.

Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region
Donald and Lillian Stokes, Little Brown, $17.95, 0316818100
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