BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of August 24

FICTION

1. INTERPRETER OF MALADIES by Jhumpa Lahiri

2. NOT A DAY GOES BY by E. Lynn Harris

3. THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham

4. HARRY POTTER & THE SORCERER'S STONE by J. K. Rowling

5. LAWNBOY by Paul Lisicky

6. SOPRANOS by Alan Warner

7. THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver

8. COUNTRY LIFE by Rachel Cusk

9. TIPPING THE VELVET by Sarah Waters

10. THE WAY I FOUND HER by Rose Tremain

NONFICTION

1. ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY by David Sedaris

2. WOMAN: AN INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY by Natalie Angier

3. KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL by Anthony Bourdain

4. THE KID by Dan Savage

5. GUNS, GERMS, & STEEL by Jared Diamond

6. I HATED THIS MOVIE by Roger Ebert

7. BONE LADY by Mary Marhein

8. NAKED by David Sedaris

9. THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK by Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht

10. NINE & COUNTING edited by Catherine Whitney

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