TOP TEN

BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of November 28


FICTION

1. SIAM OR THE WOMAN WHO SHOT A MAN by Lily Tuck

2. THE GOLDEN COMPASS by Phillip Pullman

3. LYING AWAKE by Mark Salzman

4. WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS by Kazuo Ishiguro

5. THE GIRLS' GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING by Melissa Banks

6. A DENSITY OF SOULS by Christopher Rice

7. THE SOPRANOS by Alan Warner

8. THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG by Andre Dubus III

9. THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham

10. NIGHTMARE TOWN by Dashiell Hammett


NONFICTION

1. NOTHING THAT IS: A NATURAL HISTORY OF ZERO by Robert Kaplan

2. NAKED by David Sedaris

3. IS OUR CHILDREN LEARNING? THE CASE AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH by Paul Begala

4. FORBIDDEN EROTICA from the Rotenberg Collection

5. DON'T JUMP! THE NORTHWEST WINTER BLUES SURVIVAL GUIDE by Novella Carpenter & Traci Vogel

6. WHERE WE STAND by bell hooks

7. COERCION by Douglas Rushkoff

8. TULSA by Larry Clark

9. THE WAY FORWARD IS WITH A BROKEN HEART by Alice Walker

10. BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE WRITING 2000 edited by James Gleick

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