TOP TEN

BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of May 8

FICTION

1. FIERCE INVALIDS HOME FROM HOT CLIMATES by Tom Robbins

2. THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham

3. ANIL'S GHOST by Michael Ondaatje

4. TIPPING THE VELVET by Sarah Waters

5. LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE by Karen Bender

6. THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Jeffrey Eugenides

7. CRYPTONOMICON by Neal Stephenson

8. INTERPRETER OF MALADIES by Jhumpa Lahiri

9. OUTLAW MOUNTAIN by J. A. Jance

10. FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES by Nathan Englander

NON-FICTION

1. TIME, LOVE, MEMORY by Jonathan Weiner

2. THE ONION'S FINEST NEWS REPORTS by The Onion

3. MOTHER TRIP by Ariel Gore

4. THE WTO by Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza

5. WOMAN: AN INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY by Natalie Angier

6. THE MASK OF MOTHERHOOD by Susan Maushart

7. A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS by Dave Eggers

8. THE CULTURE OF FEAR by Barry Glassner

9. GUNS, GERMS, & STEEL by Jared Diamond

10. FEEL THIS BOOK by Ben Stiller & Janeane Garofalo

Compiled from figures at Bailey/Coy Books and Elliott Bay Book Company.