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Independent Bookstores Best Sellers

Bestseller list for the week of May 6, 2008. Source: BookSense

Fiction | Nonfiction

Fiction

  1. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
  2. The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
  3. A Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
  4. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  5. The Whole Truth by David Baldacci
  6. Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
  7. The Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris
  8. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  9. Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
  10. Red Bird: Poems by Mary Oliver
  11. Lush Life by Richard Price
  12. So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger
  13. The Appeal by John Grisham
  14. Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark
  15. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Nonfiction

  1. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
  2. Just Who Will You Be?: Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within. by Maria Shriver
  3. A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father by Augusten Burroughs
  4. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
  5. Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
  6. Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
  7. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
  8. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
  9. A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
  10. A Remarkable Mother by Jimmy Carter
  11. What Now? by Ann Patchett
  12. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
  13. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction by David Sheff
  14. Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller
  15. The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria