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

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Emily White, author of Fast Girls, our No. 7 bestseller

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HARDCOVER

1. STUPID WHITE MENby Michael Moore Regan Books, $24.95
   
   
2. ATONEMENT by Ian McEwanDoubleday, $26
   
   
   
3. WHAT WENT WRONGby Bernard LewisOxford University Press, $23
   
   
   
4. COMMUNIONby bell hooksWilliam Morrow, $24.95
   
   
   
5. WITTGENSTEIN’S POKERby David Edmonds and John EidinowEcco Press, $24
   
   
   
6. NIGGERby Randall KennedyPantheon, $22
   
   
   
7. FAST GIRLSby Emily WhiteScribner, $22
   
   
   
8. THE NANNY DIARIES by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola KrausSt. Martin’s Press, $24.95
   
   
   
9. FAIR WARNINGby Robert OlenButler Atlantic Monthly Press, $24
   
   
   
10. THE MINER’S CANARYby Lani Guinier and Gerald TorresHarvard University Press, $27.95
    
    
    

PAPERBACK

1. 9-11 by Noam ChomskySeven Stories Press, $8.95
   
   
   
2. FAST FOOD NATIONby Eric SchlosserHarperCollins, $13.95
   
   
   
3. THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAYby Michael ChabonPicador, $15
   
   
   
4. THE TIPPING POINTby Malcolm GladwellBack Bay Books, $14.95
   
   
   
5. A BEAUTIFUL MIND by Sylvia Nasar Touchstone, $16
   
   
   
6. UNDERSTANDING POWERby Noam ChomskyThe New Press, $19.95
   
   
   
7. THE TERRORISM TRAPby Michael ParentiCity Lights Books, $8.95
   
   
   
8. THE VAGINA MONOLOGUESby Eve EnslerVillard Books, $12.95
   
   
   
9. FOUNDING BROTHERSby Joseph J. EllisVintage, $14
   
   
   
10. HATRED OF CAPITALISMedited by Chris Kraus and Sylvere LotringerMIT Press, $16.95
    
    
    

Bailey/Coy BooksSeattle, WA; Black Oak BooksBerkeley, CA; Book SoupWest Hollywood, CA; Book WomanAustin, TX; Canterbury BooksellersMadison, WI; City Lights Bookstore San Francisco, CA; Cody's BooksBerkeley, CA; Fact & Fiction Missoula, 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 Bookshop New York, NY; Seminary Co-Operative Bookstore, Inc.Chicago, IL; Shaman Drum BookshopAnn Arbor, MI; That Bookstore in Blytheville Blytheville, AR; Women & Children FirstChicago, IL.