Posted on: Sunday, October 5, 2003
Best Sellers
Advertiser Staff
IN HAWAI'I
This list is compiled on a rotating basis by local booksellers and a Hawai'i book distributor. This week: retail sales for Bookends, Kailua for the period Sept. 24-30.
Fiction 1. "Wordsworth the Poet" Frances H. Kakugawa, illustrated by Scott Goto
2. "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown
3. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" by J.K. Rowling
4. "The Secret Life of bees" by Sue Monk Kidd 5. "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
6. "The Slippery Slope: Series of Unfortunate Events 10" by Lemony Snicket
7. "The English Roses" by Madonna
8. "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss
9. "The fifth Book of Peace" by Maxine Hong Kingston
10. "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom
NonFiction 1. "Chicken Soup from the Soul of Hawaii" by Jack Canfield and others
2. "The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 keys to weight loss freedom" by Phil McGraw
3. "Stillness speaks" by Eckhart Tolle
4. "Atkins For Life" by Dr. Robert C. Atkins 5. "HAWAI'I Weddings made simple" by Keri Shepherd
6. "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle
7. "Who's Looking Out for YOu?" by Bill O'Reilly
8. "Eddie Would Go" by Stuart Coleman
9. "Na Lei Makamae" by Marie McDonald and Paul Weissich 10. "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
NATIONAL
Publisher's Weekly
Fiction
1. "The five people you meet in heaven" by Mitch Albom
2. "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown
3. "Bleachers" by John Grisham
4. "The wedding" by Nicholas Sparks
5. "quicksilver" by Neal Stephenson; volume one of "The Baroque Cycle"
6. "Remember when" by Nora Roberts and J.D. Robb
7. "The Teeth of the Tiger" by Tom Clancy
8. "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
9. "Dune: The Machine Crusade" by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
10. "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold
NonFiction
1. "The Ultimate Weight
Solution: The 7 keys to weight loss freedom" by Phil McGraw
2. "The South Beach Diet" by Dr. Arthur Agatston
3. "who's looking out for you?" by Bill O'Reilly
4. "Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" by Al Franken
5. "Madam Secretary: A Memoir" by Madeleine Albright
6. "The Purpose-Driven Life" by Rick Warren
7. "BUSHWHACKED: Life in George W. bush's America" by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
8. "Shut up and sing: how elites from hollywood, politics, and the ..." by Laura Ingraham
9. "Atkins for Life" by Dr. Robert C. Atkins
10. "The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules ..." by Ron Clark
Paperback 1. "Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution" by Dr. Robert C. Atkins
2. "Angels & Demons" by Dan Brown
3. "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane
4. "the runaway jury" by John Grisham 5. "Seabiscuit" by Laura Hillenbrand
6. "No One to Trust" by Iris Johansen
7. "Deception Point" by Dan Brown
8. "The future scrolls" by Fern Michaels
9. "chasing the dime" by Michael Connelly
10. "Full Speed" by Janet Evanovich