TOP TEN
BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of November 22
FICTION
1. PRODIGAL SUMMER by Barbara Kingsolver
2. THE POWERBOOK by Jeanette Winterson
3. CRUDDY by Linda Barry
4. THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver
5. PLAINSONG by Kent Haruf
6. THE NIGHT LISTENER by Armistead Maupin
7. THE TELLING by Ursula K. Le Guin
8. MERRICK by Anne Rice
9. THE BLIND ASSASSIN by Margaret Atwood
10. INTERPRETER OF MALADIES by Jhumpa Lahiri
NONFICTION
1. ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY by David Sedaris
2. A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, REVISED by Howard Zinn
3. GALILEO'S DAUGHTER by Dava Sobel
4. THE COMING INTERNET DEPRESSION by Michael Mandel
5. SEX & SINGLE GIRLS edited by Lee Damsky
6. THE COMPLETE JOURNALS OF SYLVIA PLATH by Sylvia Plath
7. THE HEART OF SUCCESS by Dan G. Tripps
8. NAKED by David Sedaris
9. PASSAGE TO JUNEAU by Jonathan Raban
10. WORDS AND RULES by Steven Pinker
Compiled from figures at Bailey/Coy Books, Elliott Bay Book Company, and PAGES Books, News, & Internet.