TOP TEN

BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of October 4


FICTION

1. PLAINSONG by Kent Haruf

2. A BLIND MAN CAN SEE HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU by Amy Bloom

3. A PERFECT FRIEND by Reynolds Price

4. PROPERTIES OF LIGHT by Rebecca Goldstein

5. THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham

6. INNOCENCE by Jane Mendelsohn

7. A DENSITY OF SOULS by Christopher Rice

8. DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE by Isabel Allende

9. THE SOPRANOS by Alan Warner

10. THE MOON PEARL by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

NONFICTION

1. CHERRY by Mary Karr

2. ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY by David Sedaris

3. NAKED by David Sedaris

4. CHANGE ME INTO ZEUS' DAUGHTER by Barbara Robinette Moss

5. CODE BOOK by Simon Singh

6. THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT by Richard Feynman

7. NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD by Stephen Ambrose

8. NATURAL BLONDE by Liz Smith

9. BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE WRITING 2000 edited by James Gleick

10. WOMAN: AN INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY by Natalie Angier

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