VLS Bestsellers

1. Everyman By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin, 192 pp., $24

2. The Year of Magical Thinking By Joan Didion Knopf, 240 pp., $23.95

3. Suite Française By Iréne Némirovsky Knopf, 416 pp., $25

4. Absurdistan By Gary Shteyngart Random House, 352 pp., $24.95

5. Black Swan Green By David Mitchell Random House, 304 pp., $23.956.

6. The Parallax View By Slavoj Zizek MIT, 528 pp., $24.95

7. Planet of Slums By Mike Davis Verso, 256 pp., $24

8. Rose of No Man's Land By Michelle Tea MacAdam/Cage, 200 pp., $22

9. Averno By Louise Glück Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 96 pp., $22

10. The Brooklyn Follies By Paul Auster Henry Holt, 320 pp., $24

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1. Never Let Me Go By Kazuo Ishiguro Vintage, 304 pp., $14

2. The History of Love By Nicole Krauss W.W. Norton, 272 pp., $13.95

3. Indecision By Benjamin Kunkel Random House, 256 pp., $12.95

4. Saturday By Ian McEwan Anchor, 304 pp., $14.95

5. A Long Way Down By Nick Hornby Riverhead, 352 pp., $14

6. Rip It Up and Start Again By Simon Reynolds Penguin, 432 pp., $16

7. Hangover Square By Patrick Hamilton Europa, 280 pp., $14.95

8. The Nimrod Flipout Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 176 pp., $12

9. Prep By Curtis Sittenfeld Random House, 448 pp., $13.95

10. Two Regimes of Madness By Gilles Deleuze Semiotext(e), 384 pp., $17.95

VLS Bestsellers are compiled from the following bookstores: BookCourt, Brooklyn, NY; BookPeople, Austin, TX; Fact & Fiction, Missoula, Montana; Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA; Kepler's Books, Menlo Park, CA; Labyrinth Books, NY, NY; McNally Robinson Booksellers, NY, NY; Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C.; Quimby's Bookstore, Chicago, IL; The Regulator, Durham, VA; St. Mark's Bookshop, NY, NY