BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of May 1

FICTION

1. THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham

2. THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver

3. FIERCE INVALIDS HOME FROM HOT CLIMATES by Tom Robbins

4. ANIL'S GHOST by Michael Ondaatje

5. THE WIDOW KILLER by Pavel Kohout

6. BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN by David Foster Wallace

7. THE GIRLS' GUIDE TO HUNTING & FISHING by Melissa Banks

8. THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Jeffrey Eugenides

9. CRYPTONOMICON by Neal Stephenson

10. MIRTH OF A NATION by Michael Rosen

NON-FICTION

1. THE ONION'S FINEST NEWS REPORTING by The Onion

2. GET HAPPY: THE LIFE OF JUDY GARLAND by Gerald Clarke

3. MOTHER TRIP by Ariel Gore

4. WOMAN: AN INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY by Natalie Angier

5. A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS by Dave Eggers

6. THE TIPPING POINT by Malcolm Gladwell

7. THE MASK OF MOTHERHOOD by Susan Maushart

8. THE CULTURE OF FEAR by Barry Glassner

9. GUNS, GERMS, & STEEL by Jared Diamond

10. FEEL THIS BOOK by Ben Stiller & Janeane Garofalo

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