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This week’s bestsellers
Hardcover Fiction
1. THE CORRECTIONS
Jonathan Franzen Farrar Straus Giroux $26.00
2. BOONVILLE
Robert Mailer Anderson Creative Arts $21.95
3. BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS
Sijie Dai Knopf $18.00
4. BASKET CASE
Carl Hiaasen Knopf $25.95
5. PORTRAIT IN SEPIA
Isabel Allende HarperCollins $26
6. HATESHIP, LOVESHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP,
MARRIAGE
Alice Munro Knopf $24.00
7. SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD
Billy Collins Random House $21.95
8. FALLING ANGELS
Tracy Chevalier Dutton $24.95
9. SKIPPING CHRISTMAS
John Grisham Doubleday $19.95
10. JACKDAWS
Ken Follett Dutton $26.95
Paperback Fiction
1. THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY
Michael Chabon Picador $15.00
2. THE RED TENT
Anita Diamant Picador $14.00
3. PRODIGAL SUMMER
Barbara Kingsolver Perennial $14.00
4. WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS
Kazuo Ishiguro Vintage $14.00
5. THE LORD OF THE RINGS
J.R.R. Tolkien Houghton Mifflin $20.00
6. THE BLIND ASSASSIN
Margaret Atwood Anchor $14.00
7. SHOPGIRL
Steve Martin Theia $10.95
8. GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
Tracy Chevalier Plume $12.00
9. LYING AWAKE
Mark Salzman Vintage $12.00
10. THE SHIPPING NEWS
E. Annie Proulx Scribner $14.00
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. JOHN ADAMS
David McCullough Simon & Schuster $35.00
2. THE SISTERS: THE SAGA OF THE MITFORD FAMILY
Mary Lovell W. W. Norton $29.95
3. A COOK’S TOUR
Anthony Bourdain Bloomsbury $25.95
4. BIAS: A CBS INSIDER EXPOSES HOW THE MEDIA DISTORT THE NEWS
Bernard Goldberg Regenery $27.95
5. THEODORE REX
Edmund Morris Random House $35.00
6. SACRED CONTRACTS
Carolyn Myss Harmony $25.00
7. WITTGENSTEIN’S POKER
David Edmonds & John Eidinow Ecco $24.00
8. LETTERS TO A YOUNG CONTRARIAN
Christopher Hitchens Basic Books $22.00
9. THE BOTANY OF DESIRE
Michael Pollan Random House $24.95
10. THE BUREAU AND THE MOLE
David Vise Atlantic Monthly Press $25.00
– Northern California
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