TOP TEN

BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of November 24


FICTION

1. HARRY POTTER & THE SORCERER'S STONE by J. K. Rowling

2. THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver

3. DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE by Isabel Allende

4. BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1999 edited by Amy Tan

5. PLAINSONG by Kent Haruf

6. HARRY POTTER & THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS by J. K. Rowling

7. LESSON BEFORE DYING by Ernest J. Gaines

8. AMSTERDAM by Ian McEwan

9. THE BONE COLLECTOR by Jeffrey Deaver

10. FIGHT CLUB by Chuck Palahniuk


NON-FICTION

1. PASSAGE TO JUNEAU by Jonathan Raban

2. RIVER SOUND by W. S. Merwin

3. PAULA by Isabel Allende

4. WOMEN by Annie Leibovitz

5. THE KID by Dan Savage

6. THE PROFESSOR & THE MADMAN by Murray/Winchester

7. BIRTH OF THE CHAORDIC AGE by Dee Hock

9. THE ART OF HAPPINESS by the Dalai Lama

10. WORST-CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK by John Piven

Compiled from figures at Elliott Bay Books, Bailey/Coy Books, and PAGES Books, News, & Web.