Bestsellers compiled from our survey of the nation’s top independent bookstores listed below
HARDCOVER
- STUPID WHITE MEN by Michael Moore Regan Books, $24.95
- ATONEMENT by Ian McEwan Doubleday, $26
- WHAT WENT WRONG by Bernard Lewis Oxford University Press, $23
- COMMUNION by bell hooks William Morrow, $24.95
- WITTGENSTEIN’S POKER by David Edmonds and John Eidinow Ecco Press, $24
- NIGGER by Randall Kennedy Pantheon, $22
- FAST GIRLS by Emily White Scribner, $22
- THE NANNY DIARIES by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus St. Martin’s Press, $24.95
- FAIR WARNING by Robert Olen Butler Atlantic Monthly Press, $24
- THE MINER’S CANARY by Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres Harvard University Press, $27.95
PAPERBACK
- 9-11 by Noam Chomsky Seven Stories Press, $8.95
- FAST FOOD NATION by Eric Schlosser HarperCollins, $13.95
- THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY by Michael Chabon Picador, $15
- THE TIPPING POINT by Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books, $14.95
- A BEAUTIFUL MIND by Sylvia Nasar Touchstone, $16
- UNDERSTANDING POWER by Noam Chomsky The New Press, $19.95
- THE TERRORISM TRAP by Michael Parenti City Lights Books, $8.95
- THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES by Eve Ensler Villard Books, $12.95
- FOUNDING BROTHERS by Joseph J. Ellis Vintage, $14
- 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.