BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of January 17

FICTION

1. THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham

2. POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver

3. SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson

4. TEA by Stacy D'Erasmo

5. MISS WYOMING by Douglas Coupland

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

7. THE MAGICIAN'S ASSISTANT by Anne Patchett

8. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER by Gregory Maguire

9. THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy

10. BLINDNESS by José Saramago

NON-FICTION

1. GIRL, INTERRUPTED by Susanna Kaysen

2. ALL ABOUT LOVE by bell hooks

3. ANGELA'S ASHES by Frank McCourt

4. THE MULLET: HAIRSTYLE OF THE GODS by Mark Larson & Barney Hoskyns

5. THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN by Anne Fadiman

6. THE NEW NEW THING by Michael Lewis

7. THE KID by Dan Savage

8. GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL by Jared Diamond

9. THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN by Simon Winchester

10. THE ART OF HAPPINESS by the Dalai Lama

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