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
   
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2. ATONEMENT by Ian McEwan Doubleday, $26
   
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3. EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED by Jonathan Safran Foer Houghton Mifflin, $24
   
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4. THE CLASH OF FUNDAMENTALISMS by Tariq Ali Verso, $22
   
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5. SMALL WONDER by Barbara Kingsolver HarperCollins, $23.95
   
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6. THE NANNY DIARIES by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus St. Martin’s Press, $24.95
   
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7. THE CADENCE OF GRASS by Thomas McGuane Knopf, $24
   
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8. THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN’S PIER by Ann Packer Knopf, $24
   
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9. MASTER OF THE SENATE by Robert A. Caro Knopf, $35
   
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10. MR. POTTER by Jamaica Kincaid Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $20
    
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PAPERBACK

1. 9-11 by Noam Chomsky Seven Stories Press, $8.95
   
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2. EMPIRE FALLS by Richard Russo Vintage, $14.95
   
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3. NICKEL AND DIMED by Barbara Ehrenreich Owl Books, $13
   
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4. BEL CANTO by Ann Patchett HarperPerennial, $15
   
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5. HOW TO BE GOOD by Nick Hornby Riverhead, $13
   
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6. FAST FOOD NATION by Eric Schlosser HarperCollins, $13.95
   
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7. PERPETUAL WAR FOR PERPETUAL PEACE by Gore Vidal Thunder’s Mouth Press, $10
   
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8. THE METAPHYSICAL CLUB by Louis Menand Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $15
   
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9. UNDERSTANDING POWER by Noam Chomsky The New Press, $19.95
10. TERRORISM AND WAR by Howard Zinn Seven Stories Press, $9.95
    
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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 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.