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.