BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of September 20

FICTION

1. THE BLIND ASSASSIN by Margaret Atwood

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

3. BEE SEASON by Myla Goldberg

4. THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham

5. THE ROYAL FAMILY by William Vollmann

6. PLAINSONG by Kent Haruf

7. DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE by Isabel Allende

8. THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT by Catherine Bush

9. INTERPRETER OF MALADIES by Jhumpa Lahiri

10. THE SOPRANOS by Alan Warner

NONFICTION

1. ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY by David Sedaris

2. THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT by Richard Feynman

3. SOUTH MOUNTAIN ROAD by Hesper Anderson

4. NAKED by David Sedaris

5. CODE BOOK by Simon Singh

6. AL GORE: A USER'S MANUAL by Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair

7. WOMAN: AN INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY by Natalie Angier

8. KING DAVID: THE REAL LIFE by Jonathan Kirsch

9. BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE WRITING 2000 edited by James Gleick

10. 'TIS by Frank McCourt

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