What New Orleans is reading
Six months after the disaster of Katrina, what are New Orleanians reading? The best-selling books for the week through March 19 paint a picture of a city still making sense of what has happened to it. Here are the top 10 best-sellers, with the number of copies sold during the week in parentheses, according to BookScan (and yes, you bet I'm stoked that Do You Know is No. 6!):
No. 1: 1 dead in attic by Chris Rose (1,443 copies)
No. 2: Hurricane Katrina: An American Tragedy and Its Aftermath by the editors of Time (287 copies)
No. 3: Hurricane Katrina: CNN Presents: State of Emergency (250)
No. 4: Living Prayers Rev. Basil Senger (200)
No. 5: Missing New Orleans Philip Collier (166)
No. 6: Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? (156)
No. 7: The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown (132)
No. 8: Why New Orleans Matters Tom Piazza (130)
No. 9: Covenant with Black America Tavis Smiley (126)
No. 10: Katrina Clarion Ledger and others (106)














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