TOP TEN

BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOK STORES for the week of March 20


FICTION

1. THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham

2. THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Jeffrey Eugenides

3. THE MAGICIAN'S ASSISTANT by Ann Patchett

4. BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON by Helen Fielding

5. THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver

6. AMY & ISABELLE by Elizabeth Stout

7. HOUSE OF LEAVES by Mark Danielewski

8. HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG by Andre Dubus III

9. AMSTERDAM by Ian McEwan

10. ALTAR MUSIC by Christian Lore Weber


NON-FICTION

1. A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS by Dave Eggers

2. WOMAN: AN INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY by Natalie Angier

3. ELEGANT UNIVERSE by Brian Greene

4. GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL by Jared Diamond

5. WOMEN'S BODIES, WOMEN'S WISDOM by Christiane Northrup

6. LIFE: THE MOVIE by Neil Gabler

7. THE ORCHID THIEF by Susan Orlean

8. BEOWOLF translated by Seamus Heaney

9. MIRTH OF A NATION edited by Michael J. Rosen

10. THE KID by Dan Savage

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