BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of April 3

FICTION

1. THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham

2. HIGH FIDELITY by Nick Hornby

3. THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver

4. THE WIDOW KILLER by Pavel Kohout

5. THE BEST AMERICAN EROTICA 2000 edited by Susie Bright

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

7. THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Jeffrey Eugenides

8. BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN by David Foster Wallace

9. THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET by Salman Rushdie

10. THE BLUE PLACE by Nicola Griffith

NON-FICTION

1. THE ONION'S FINEST NEWS REPORTS by The Onion

2. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE by Mitch Albom

3. A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS by Dave Eggers

4. THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK by Joshua Piven

5. THE CULTURE OF FEAR by Barry Glassner

6. THE MULLET: HAIRSTYLE OF THE GODS edited by Mark Larson, et al.

7. WOMAN: AN INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY by Natalie Angier

8. VISUAL INTELLIGENCE by Donald Hoffman

9. THE TIPPING POINT by Malcolm Gladwell

10. GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL by Jared Diamond

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