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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 10/21/2007

The Southern Independent Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and SIBA, for the week ended Sunday, October 21, 2007. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and Book Sense.

HARDCOVER FICTION

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

2. The Almost Moon
Alice Sebold, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316677462

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. The Abstinence Teacher
Tom Perrotta, St. Martin's, $24.95, 9780312358334

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

13. Work Shirts for Madmen
George Singleton, Harcourt, $24, 9780151013074

14. The Uncommon Reader
Alan Bennett, FSG, $15, 9780374280963

15. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz, Riverhead, $24.95, 9781594489587


HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

2. Become a Better You
Joel Osteen, Free Press, $25, 9780743296885

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

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

5. Deceptively Delicious
Jessica Seinfeld, Steve Vance (Illus.), Collins, $24.95, 9780061251344

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

7. The Intellectual Devotional
Noah D. Oppenheim, David S. Kidder, Modern Times, $24, 9781594867446

8. The Coldest Winter
David Halberstam, Hyperion, $35, 9781401300524

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

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

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

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

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

14. Come on People
Bill Cosby, Alvin F. Poussaint, Thomas Nelson, $25.99, 9781595550927

15. Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks, Knopf, $26, 9781400040810


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. The Alchemist (Updated)
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $13.95, 9780061122415

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

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

15. The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai, Grove, $14, 9780802142818


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

4. The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9780743247542

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

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

7. The Wisdom of Menopause
Christiane Northrup, Bantam, $20, 9780553384093

8. My Life in France
Julia Child, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307277695

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

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

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

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

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

14. The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson, Vintage, $14.95, 9780375725609

15. Blood and Thunder
Hampton Sides, Anchor, $15.95, 9781400031108


MASS MARKET

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

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

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

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

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

6. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $7.95, 9780451524935

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

8. Under Orders
Dick Francis, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425217566

9. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Warner, $6.99, 9780316769488

10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain, Bantam Classics, $5.95, 9780553210798


CHILDREN'S TITLES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Diary of a Fly
Doreen Cronin, Harry Bliss (Illus.), Joanna Cotler, $15.99, 9780060001568

9. Fancy Nancy
Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper, $16.99, 9780060542092

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

11. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan, Miramax, $7.99, 9780786838653

12. Purplicious
Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann, Harper, $16.99, 9780061244056

13. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $9.99, 9780439785969

14. Two Little Witches
Harriet Ziefert, Simms Taback (Illus.), Candlewick, $3.99, 9780763633097

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