VLS Bestsellers List

HARDCOVER

1. ON BULLSHIT
by Harry G. Frankfurt
Princeton, 80 pp., $9.95

2. ON BEAUTY
by Zadie Smith
Penguin Press, 464 pp., $25.95

3. INDECISION
by Benjamin Kunkel
Random House, 256 pp., $21.95

4. SHALIMAR THE CLOWN
by Salman Rushdie
Random House, 416 pp., $25.95

5. UNTIL I FIND YOU
by John Irving
Random House, 848 pp., $27.95

6. ICE HAVEN
by Daniel Clowes
Pantheon, 88 pp., $18.95

7. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
by Cormac McCarthy
Knopf, 320 pp., $24.95

8. A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST
by Rebecca Solnit
Viking, 224 pp., $21.95

9. DECREATION: POETRY, ESSAYS, OPERA
by Anne Carson
Knopf, 272 pp., $24.95

10. X OUT OF WONDERLAND: A SAGA
by David Allan Cates
Steerforth, 152 pp., $17.95

PAPERBACK

1. CHRONICLES: VOLUME ONE
by Bob Dylan
Simon & Schuster, 320 pp., $14

2. SNOW
by Orhan Pamuk
Vintage, 448 pp., $14.95

3. DON'T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT
by George Lakoff
Chelsea Green, 144 pp., $10

4. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS?
by Thomas Frank
Owl Books, 336 pp., $14

5. THE MASTER
by Colm Tóibín
cribner, 352 pp., $14

6. FOUCAULT: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION
by Gary Gutting
Oxford, 124 pp., $9.95

7. ANOTHER BULLSHIT NIGHT IN SUCK CITY
by Nick Flynn
W. W. Norton, 288 pp., $13.95

8. THE BRIEF AND FRIGHTENING REIGN OF PHIL
by George Saunders
Riverhead, 144 pp., $13

9. THE ROCK SNOB'S DICTIONARY
by David Kamp and Steven Daly
Broadway, 176 pp., $12.95

10. NICKEL AND DIMED: ON (NOT) GETTING BY IN AMERICA
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Owl Books, 240 pp., $13

VLS Bestsellers is compiled from these independent bookstores: City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA; Cody's Books, Berkeley, CA; Fact & Fiction, Missoula, MT; Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA; Labyrinth Books, New York, NY; Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, IA; Quimby's Bookstore, Chicago, IL; The Regulator Bookshop, Durham, NC; St. Mark's Bookshop, New York, NY; Three Lives & Company, New York, NY.