TOP TEN

BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of May 10

FICTION

1. ANIL'S GHOST by Michael Ondaatje

2. THE RED TENT by Anita Diamant

3. GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING by Tracy Chevalier

4. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE by Louise Erdrich

5. THE TOUGHEST INDIAN IN THE WORLD by Sherman Alexie

6. BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS by Anne Tyler

7. THE DANISH GIRL by David Ebershoff

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

9. LOSING JULIA by Jonathan Hull

10. GLUE by Irvine Welsh

NON-FICTION

1. A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS by Dave Eggers

2. I'M THE ONE THAT I WANT by Margaret Cho

3. IS OUR CHILDREN LEARNING? by Paul Begala

4. SHRUB: THE SHORT BUT HAPPY POLITICAL LIFE OF GEORGE W. BUSH by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose

5. IN THE HEART OF THE SEA by Nathaniel Philbrick

6. THE GLOBAL SOUL by Pico Iyer

7. GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL by Jared Diamond

8. A BELIEF OR NONBELIEF? by Umberto Eco and Cardinal Martini

9. MY GRANDFATHER'S BLESSING By Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

10. THE IMMORTAL CLASS by Travis Hugh Culley

Compiled from figures at Bailey/Coy Books, Elliott Bay Book Company, Fremont Place Book Company and Third Place Books.