Books

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

HARDCOVER

1. STUPID WHITE MEN by Michael Moore Regan Books, $24.95 
2. ATONEMENT by Ian McEwan Doubleday, $26 

    

3. WHAT WENT WRONG by Bernard Lewis Oxford University Press, $23 

    

4. COMMUNION by bell hooks William Morrow, $24.95 

    

5. WITTGENSTEIN’S POKER by David Edmonds and John Eidinow Ecco Press, $24 

    

6. NIGGER by Randall Kennedy Pantheon, $22 

    

7. FAST GIRLS by Emily White Scribner, $22 

    

8. THE NANNY DIARIES by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus St. Martin’s Press, $24.95 

    

9. FAIR WARNING by Robert Olen Butler Atlantic Monthly Press, $24 

    

10. THE MINER’S CANARY by Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres Harvard University Press, $27.95 

     

PAPERBACK

1. 9-11 by Noam Chomsky Seven Stories Press, $8.95 

    

2. FAST FOOD NATION by Eric Schlosser HarperCollins, $13.95 

    

3. THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY by Michael Chabon Picador, $15 

    

4. THE TIPPING POINT by Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books, $14.95 

    

5. A BEAUTIFUL MIND by Sylvia Nasar Touchstone, $16 

    

6. UNDERSTANDING POWER by Noam Chomsky The New Press, $19.95 

    

7. THE TERRORISM TRAP by Michael Parenti City Lights Books, $8.95 

    

8. THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES by Eve Ensler Villard Books, $12.95 

    

9. FOUNDING BROTHERS by Joseph J. Ellis Vintage, $14 

    

10. HATRED OF CAPITALISM edited by Chris Kraus and Sylvere Lotringer MIT Press, $16.95 

     

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 Booksellers 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.