Bestsellers compiled from our survey of the nation’s top independent bookstores listed below
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VLS Bestsellers is compiled from these independent bookstores:
Bailey/Coy Books Seattle, WA; Black Oak Books Berkeley, CA; Book Soup West Hollywood, CA; Book Woman Austin, TX; Canterbury Books Madison, 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 Bookstore Santa Monica, CA; Politics & Prose Washington, D.C.; Posman Books New York, NY; Prairie Lights Bookstore Iowa City, IA; The Regulator Bookshop Durham, NC; Ruminator Books St. Paul, MN; St. 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.
Also in This Week’s Books Section:
Joy Press on The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing
Alisa Solomon on Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine by Raja Shehadeh
J. Hoberman on Reading The Funnies: Essays On Comic Strips by Donald Phelps