BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of September 13

FICTION

1. A BLIND MAN CAN SEE HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU by Amy Bloom

2. THE BLIND ASSASSIN by Margaret Atwood

3. THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham

4. THE HEARTSONG OF CHARGING ELK by James Welch

5. PLAINSONG by Kent Haruf

6. DENSITY OF SOULS of Christopher Rice

7. DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE by Isabel Allende

8. THE SOPRANOS by Alan Warner

9. ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES by William Gibson

10. THE ROYAL FAMILY by William Vollmann

NONFICTION

1. ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY by David Sedaris

2. WOMAN: AN INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY by Natalie Angier

3. THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT by Richard Feynman

4. CODE BOOK by Simon Singh

5. HIDING PLACES by Daniel Asa Rose

6. BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE WRITING 2000 edited by James Gleick

7. NAKED by David Sedaris

8. 'TIS by Frank McCourt

9. BARREL FEVER by David Sedaris

10. A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS by Dave Eggers

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