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Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound.org.

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Southern Independent Bestseller List 10/14/2007

The Southern Independent Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and SIBA, for the week ended Sunday,October 14, 2007. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and Book Sense.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Playing for Pizza
John Grisham, Doubleday, $21.95, 9780385525008

2. World Without End
Ken Follett, Dutton, $35, 9780525950073

3. The Choice
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $24.99, 9780446579926

4. A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $25.95, 9781594489501

5. Run
Ann Patchett, Harper, $25.95, 9780061340635

6. Bridge of Sighs
Richard Russo, Knopf, $26.95, 9780375414954

7. Down River
John Hart, St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95, 9780312359317

8. You've Been Warned
James Patterson, Howard Roughan, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316014502

9. Shoot Him If He Runs
Stuart Woods, Putnam, $25.95, 9780399154447

10. Dark of the Moon
John Sandford, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399154775

11. Dead Heat
Dick Francis, Felix Francis, Putnam, $25.95, 9780399154768

12. Loving Frank
Nancy Horan, Ballantine, $23.95, 9780345494993

13. Dexter in the Dark
Jeff Lindsay, Doubleday, $23.95, 9780385518338

14. The Gift
Richard Paul Evans, S&S, $19.95, 9781416550013

15. Garden Spells
Sarah Addison Allen, Bantam, $20, 9780553805482


HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. I Am America (and So Can You!)
Stephen Colbert, Grand Central, $26.99, 9780446580502

2. The Dangerous Book for Boys
Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden, Collins, $24.95, 9780061243585

3. Clapton
Eric Clapton, Broadway, $26, 9780385518512

4. Deceptively Delicious
Jessica Seinfeld, Collins, $24.95, 9780061251344

5. The Age of Turbulence
Alan Greenspan, Penguin Press, $35, 9781594201318

6. My Grandfather's Son
Clarence Thomas, Harper, $26.95, 9780060565558

7. The Year of Living Biblically
A.J. Jacobs, S&S, $25, 9780743291477

8. The Nine
Jeffrey Toobin, Doubleday, $27.95, 9780385516402

9. The Day of Battle
Rick Atkinson, Holt, $35, 9780805062892

10. The Secret
Rhonda Byrne (Ed.), Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95, 9781582701707

11. God Is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens, Twelve, $24.99, 9780446579803

12. Mother Teresa
Brian Kolodiejchuk (Ed.), Doubleday, $22.95, 9780385520379

13. Boone
Robert Morgan, Ravenel, $29.95, 9781565124554

14. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, Harper, $26.95, 9780060852559

15. Bad Dogs Have More Fun
John Grogan, Vanguard, $18.95, 9781593154684


TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781565125605

2. Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307389732

3. The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $15, 9781594480003

4. Suite Francaise
Irene Nemirovsky, Vintage, $14.95, 9781400096275

5. The Thirteenth Tale
Diane Setterfield, Washington Square, $15, 9780743298032

6. The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards, Penguin, $14, 9780143037149

7. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See, Random House, $13.95, 9780812968064

8. Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides, Picador, $15, 9780312427733

9. On Agate Hill
Lee Smith, Ravenel, $13.95, 9781565125773

10. The Road
Cormac McCarthy, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307387899

11. The Emperor's Children
Claire Messud, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307276667

12. The Echo Maker
Richard Powers, Picador, $15, 9780312426439

13. What Is the What
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307385901

14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon, Vintage, $13.95, 9781400032716

15. My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult, Washington Square, $15, 9780743454537


TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $15, 9780143038412

2. Into the Wild (Movie tie-in edition)
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $13.95, 9780307387172

3. Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $15, 9780143038252

4. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $14.95, 9780767919371

5. The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $14, 9780743247542

6. 90 Minutes in Heaven
Don Piper, Revell, $12.99, 9780800759490

7. The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $16, 9780143038580

8. This Is Your Brain on Music
Daniel J. Levitin, Plume, $15, 9780452288522

9. Skinny Bitch
Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin, Running Press, $13.95, 9780762424931

10. Porn for Women
Cambridge Women's Pornography Co-op (Eds.), Chronicle, $12.95, 9780811855518

11. This I Believe
Jay Allison (Ed.), Holt, $14, 9780805086584

12. The Mitford Bedside Companion
Jan Karon, Penguin, $16, 9780143112419

13. The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman, Picador, $16, 9780312425074

14. The Faith Club
Ranya Idliby, et al., Free Press, $14, 9780743290487

15. Thunderstruck
Erik Larson, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400080670


MASS MARKET

1. The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett, Signet, $7.99, 9780451166890

2. Cross
James Patterson, Grand Central, $9.99, 9780446619059

3. The Collectors
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $9.99, 9780446615631

4. The King of Lies
John Hart, St. Martin's, $6.99, 9780312363758

5. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Warner, $6.99, 9780446310789

6. True Evil
Greg Iles, Pocket, $9.99, 9781416524533

7. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Berkley, $9.99, 9780399501487

8. Fresh Disasters
Stuart Woods, Signet, $9.99, 9780451221650

9. Fatal Remedies
Donna Leon, Penguin, $7.99, 9780143112426

10. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $7.95, 9780451524935


CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3)
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $18.99, 9780316160209

2. Twilight
Stephenie Meyer, Megan Tingley, $9.99, 9780316015844

3. Ana's Story
Jenna Bush, Harper, $18.99, 9780061379086

4. New Moon
Stephenie Meyer, Megan Tingley, $18.99, 9780316160193

5. The Three Snow Bears
Jan Brett, Putnam, $16.99, 9780399247927

6. Monday With a Mad Genius (Magic Tree House #38)
Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca (Illus.), Random House, $11.99,
9780375837296

7. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $11.99, 9780375842207

8. Puff, the Magic Dragon
Peter Yarrow, Lenny Lipton, Sterling, $16.95, 9781402747823

9. Llama Llama Mad at Mama
Anna Dewdney, Viking, $15.99, 9780670062409

10. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617

11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, $34.99, 9780545010221

12. Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy
Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper, $16.99, 9780060542139

13. The Nixie's Song (Beyond The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1)
Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black, S&S, $10.99, 9780689871313

14. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden, $9.99, 9780307120007

15. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.), Little Brown, $16.99, 9780316013680