TOP TEN

BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of October 18.


FICTION

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

2. THE CORRECTIONS by Jonathan Franzen

3. WHITE TEETH by Zadie Smith

4. COLDHEART CANYON by Clive Barker

5. LOST by Gregory Maguire

6. BEE SEASON by Myla Goldberg

7. HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE by J.K. Rowling

8. BLOOD AND GOLD by Anne Rice

9. IN CUBA I WAS A GERMAN SHEPHERD by Ana Menendez

10. LIFE ISN'T ALL HA HA HEE HEE by Meera Syal


NONFICTION

1. THE PLACES THAT SCARE YOU by Pema Chödrön

2. DISPATCHES FROM THE TENTH CIRCLE edited by Robert Siegel

3. JIHAD VS. McWORLD by Benjamin R. Barber

4. STRIP CITY by Lily Burana

5. SOUL OF A CITIZEN by Paul Loeb

6. ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY by David Sedaris

7. EMPIRE by Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri

8. A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS by Dave Eggers

9. FAST FOOD NATION by Eric Schlosser

10. A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES by Howard Zinn

Compiled from figures at Bailey/Coy Books and Elliott Bay Book Company.