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

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bell hooks, author of Communion, our no. 6 bestseller

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1. WHAT WENT WRONGby Bernard LewisOxford University Press, $23
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2. STUPID WHITE MENby Michael MooreRegan Books, $24.95
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3. THE CORRECTIONSby Jonathan FranzenFarrar, Straus & Giroux, $26
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4. THE SUMMONSby John GrishamDoubleday, $27.95
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5. A COOK'S TOURby Anthony BourdainBloomsbury, $25.95
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6. COMMUNIONby bell hooksWilliam Morrow, $24.95
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7. NIGGERby Randall KennedyPantheon, $22
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8. BASKET CASEby Carl HiaasenKnopf, $25.95
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9. WITTGENSTEIN'S POKERby David Edmonds and John EidinowEcco Press, $24
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10. FINGERSMITHby Sarah WatersRiverhead, $25.95
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1. FAST FOOD NATIONby Eric SchlosserHarperCollins, $13.95
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2. 9-11by Noam ChomskySeven Stories Press, $8.95
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3. THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAYby Michael ChabonPicador, $15
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4. A BEAUTIFUL MINDby Sylvia NasarTouchstone, $16
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5. KITCHEN CONFIDENTIALby Anthony Bourdain Ecco Press, $14
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6. MY DREAM OF YOUby Nuala O'FaolainRiverhead, $14
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7. UNDERSTANDING POWERby Noam ChomskyThe New Press, $19.95
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8. THE TIPPING POINTby Malcolm GladwellBack Bay Books, $14.95
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9. THE DEATH OF VISHNUby Manil SuriHarperPerennial, $13.95
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10. TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANGby Peter CareyVintage, $14
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Bailey/Coy BooksSeattle, WA; Black Oak BooksBerkeley, CA; Book Soup WestHollywood, CA; Book WomanAustin, TX; Canterbury BooksMadison, WI; City Lights BookstoreSan Francisco, CA; Cody's BooksBerkeley, CA; Fact & FictionMissoula, MT; Farley's BookshopNew Hope, PA; Harvard Book StoreCambridge, MA; Labyrinth BooksNew York, NY; Left Bank BooksSt. Louis, MO; Midnight Special BookstoreSanta Monica, CA; Politics & ProseWashington, D.C.; Posman BooksNew York, NY; Prairie Lights BookstoreIowa City, IA; The Regulator BookshopDurham, NC; Ruminator BooksSt. Paul, MN; St. Mark's BookshopNew York, NY; Seminary Co-Operative Bookstore, Inc. Chicago, IL; Shaman Drum BookshopAnn Arbor, MI; That Bookstore in BlythevilleBlytheville, AR; Women & Children FirstChicago, IL.