BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of October 18

FICTION

1. WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS by Kazuo Ishiguro

2. THE NEAL POLLACK ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE by Neal Pollack

3. HOW ALL THIS STARTED by Pete Fromm

4. PLAINSONG by Kent Haruf

5. THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY by Michael Chabon

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

7. THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham

8. DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE by Isabel Allende

9. INNOCENCE by Jane Mendelsohn

10. IN THE SNOW FOREST by Roy Parvin

NONFICTION

1. BLACKBIRD by Jennifer Lauck

2. ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY by David Sedaris

3. NAKED by David Sedaris

4. CHERRY by Mary Karr

5. THE JOURNEY FROM HERE by Bill Bradley

6. CODE BOOK by Simon Singh

7. WOMAN: AN INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY by Natalie Angier

8. NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD by Stephen Ambrose

9. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE by Mitch Albom

10. THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT by Richard Feynman

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