TOP TEN

BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of December 16

FICTION

1. MOUNTAIN TIME by Ivan Doig

2. LESSON BEFORE DYING by Ernest J. Gaines

3. THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver

4. HARRY POTTER & THE SORCERER'S STONE by J. K. Rowling

5. AMSTERDAM by Ian McEwan

6. HOLIDAYS ON ICE by David Sedaris

7. RIVER CROSS MY HEART by Breena Clarke

8. WAITING by Ha Jin

9. THE BLUE PLACE by Nicola Griffith

10. THE MAGICIAN'S ASSISTANT by Ann Patchett

NON-FICTION

1. POP-UP BOOK OF PHOBIAS by Gary Greenberg

2. 'TIS by Frank McCourt

3. WOMEN by Annie Leibovitz

4. ENDURANCE by Alfred Lansing

5. GIRL, INTERRUPTED by Susanna Kaysen

6. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE by Mitch Albom

7. TREASURY OF AFRICAN FOLKLORE by Harold Courlander

8. HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST by Derek Hayes

9. OUR DUMB CENTURY by The Onion

10. PASSAGE TO JUNEAU by Jonathan Raban

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