TOP TEN
BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of November 29.
FICTION
1. THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY by Michael Chabon
2. WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS by Kazuo Ishiguro
3. THE CORRECTIONS by Jonathan Franzen
4. PRODIGAL SUMMER by Barbara Kingsolver
5. ALL THE NAMES by José Saramago
6. THE BLIND ASSASSIN by Margaret Atwood
7. COLLECTED STORIES by Saul Bellow
8. SOUL MOUNTAIN by Gao Xingjian
9. THE RED TENT by Anita Diamant
10. FUP by Jim Dodge
NONFICTION
1. TALIBAN by Ahmed Rashid
2. FREE TO DIE FOR THEIR COUNTRY by Eric L. Muller
3. BLOWBACK by Chalmers Johnson
4. THE PLACES THAT SCARE YOU by Pema Chödrön
5. A WOMAN'S EDUCATION by Jill Ker Conway
6. BRUNELLESCHI'S DOME by Ross King
7. JIHAD VS. McWORLD by Benjamin R. Barber
8. FROM PADS TO PALLETTE by Ernie Barnes
9. GIG: AMERICANS TALK ABOUT THEIR JOBS edited by John Bowe, Marisa Bowe & Sabin C. Streeter
10. DISPATCHES FROM THE TENTH CIRCLE by The Onion
Compiled from figures at Bailey/Coy Books, Elliott Bay Book Company, Fremont Place Book Company, and Third Place Books.