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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Sunday, August 21, 2005

Hawai'i's best-sellers

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This list is a rotating compilation by local booksellers. This week: retail sales for Bookends, Kailua for Aug. 11-17.

FICTION

1. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

2. "House of Thieves" by Kaui Hemmings

3. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

4. "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown

5. "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova

6. "In the Company of Cheerful Ladies" by Alexander McCall Smith

7. "The Mermaid Chair" by Sue Monk Kidd

8. "The Folks You Meet in Longs" by Lee Cataluna

9. "Lifeguard" by James Patterson and Andrew Gross

10. "Skinny Dip" by Carl Hiaasen

NONFICTION

1. "Honor Killing" by David E. Stannard

2. "1776" by David McCullough

3. "The Perricone Promise" by Nichols Perricone

4. "How to Buy & Sell Your Home in Hawai'i" by Frances Lee Britten

5. "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman

6. "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

7. "The True Power of Water" by Masaru Emoto

8. "Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You to Know About" by Kevin Trudeau

9. "A Tropical Garden Flora" by George Staples and Derrel Herbst

10. "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America" by Bernard Goldberg