BOOK WORLD: May 2, 2010

1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
(Norton, $27.95). By Michael Lewis

2. The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
(Knopf, $29.95). By David Remnick

3. 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
(Pantheon, $26.95). By Simon Johnson & James Kwak

4. Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism
(Univ. of Chicago, $29). By Gary S. Becker & Richard A. Posner

5. 2010 Take Back America: A Battle Plan: The Stakes, the Targets, the Strategies ... And What You Can Do (Harper, $26.99)
By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

6. Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
(Ecco, $25.99). By Richard A. Clarke & Robert K. Knake

7. The End of Wall Street
(Penguin Press, $27.95). By Roger Lowenstein

8. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
(Harper, $27.99). By John Heilemann & Mark Halperin

9. Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight (Threshold Editions, $30). By Karl Rove

10. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
(Viking, $32.95). By Andrew Ross Sorkin

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