TOP TEN
BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of June 12
FICTION
1. WHITE TEETH by Zadie Smith
2. THE MARRIED MAN: A LOVE STORY by Edmund White
3. THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham
4. INTERPRETER OF MALADIES by Jhumpa Lahiri
5. ANIL'S GHOST by Michael Ondaatje
6. ITALIAN FEVER by Valerie Martin
7. TIPPING THE VELVET by Sarah Waters
8. BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN by David Foster Wallace
9. THE TIE THAT BINDS by Kent Haruf
10. VALENCIA by Michelle Tea
NON-FICTION
1. ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY by David Sedaris
2. THE KID by Dan Savage
3. THE MOTHER TRIP: HIP MAMA'S GUIDE TO STAYING SANE IN THE CHAOS OF MOTHERHOOD by Ariel Gore
4. POST-DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR by Alison Bechdel
5. NAKED by David Sedaris
6. THE BOOK OF THE PENIS by Maggie Paley
7. WOMAN: AN INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY by Natalie Angier
8. THE ONION'S FINEST NEWS REPORTS by The Onion
9. EXPERIENCE: A MEMOIR by Martin Amis
10. THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK by Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht
Compiled from figures at Bailey/Coy Books, Elliott Bay Book Company, and PAGES Books, News, & Internet.