VLS Bestsellers

Bestsellers compiled from our survey of the nation's top independent bookstores listed below.

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Ann Patchett, author of Bel canto, our no. 6 Bestseller

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1. JOHN ADAMS
   by David McCulloughSimon & Schuster, $35
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2. NICKEL AND DIMED
   by Barbara Ehrenreich Metropolitan, $23
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3. BLUE DIARY
   by Alice Hoffman Putnam, $24.95
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4. THE BOTANY OF DESIRE
   by Michael PollanRandom House, $24.95
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5. OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE
   by Michael Azerrad Little, Brown & Co., $25.95
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6. BEL CANTO
   by Ann Patchett HarperCollins, $25
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7. THE WILD BLUE
   by Stephen Ambrose Simon & Schuster, $26
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8. THE NOONDAY DEMON
   by Andrew Solomon Scribner, $28
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9. FRAUD
   by David RakoffDoubleday, $21.95
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10. POSITIVELY 4TH STREET
    by David HajduFarrar, Straus & Giroux, $25
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PAPERBACKS

1. THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY
   by Michael Chabon Picador, $15
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2. ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY
   by David SedarisLittle, Brown, $14.95
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3. EMPIRE
   by M. Hardt, A. Negri Harvard University Press, $18.95
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4. WHITE TEETH
   by Zadie SmithVintage, $14
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5. PERSONAL HISTORY
   by Katherine Graham Vintage, $15
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6. THE FEAST OF LOVE
   by Charles BaxterVintage, $13
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7. THE RED TENT
   by Anita Diamant Picador, $14.95
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8. A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS
   by Dave EggersVintage, $14
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9. THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
   by Eve Ensler Villard, $12.95
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10. CULTURE INDUSTRY
    by Theodor Adorno Routledge Classics, $14.95
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Bailey/Coy Books Seattle, WA; Black Oak Books Berkeley, CA; Book Soup West Hollywood, CA; Book Woman Austin, TX; Canterbury BooksMadison, WI; City Lights Bookstore San Francisco, CA; Cody's Books Berkeley, CA; Fact & Fiction Missoula, MT; Farley's Bookshop New Hope, PA; Harvard Book Store Cambridge, MA; Labyrinth Books New York, NY; Left Bank Books St. Louis, MO; Midnight Special Santa Monica, CA; Page One, Inc. Albuquerque, NM; Politics & Prose Washington, DC; Posman Books New York, NY; Powell's Books Portland, OR; Prairie Lights Iowa City, IA; The Regulator Bookshop Durham, NC; Ruminator Books St. Paul, MN; Saint Mark's Bookshop New York, NY; Seminary Co-operative Bookstore, Inc. Chicago, IL; Shaman Drum Bookshop Ann Arbor, MI; That Bookstore in Blytheville Blytheville, AR; Women & Children First Chicago, IL