For reporting week ending Sunday, October 26, 2008

Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of
The New England Independent Booksellers Association

Independent Bookstores for Independent Minds

Children's List is a combination of
Children's Fiction and Children's Illustrated Books

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
David Wroblewski, Ecco, $25.95, 9780061374227

2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Dial, $22, 9780385340991

3. A Most Wanted Man
John le Carré, Scribner, $28, 9781416594888

4. Testimony
Anita Shreve, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316059862

5. The Given Day
Dennis Lehane, Morrow, $27.95, 9780688163181

6. A Lion Among Men
Gregory Maguire, Morrow, $26.95, 9780060548926

7. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307269751

8. I See You Everywhere
Julia Glass, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780375422751

9. Rough Weather
Robert B. Parker, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399155192

10. The Brass Verdict
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $26.99, 9780316166294

11. The Other Queen
Philippa Gregory, Touchstone, $25.95, 9781416549123

12. Extreme Measures
Vince Flynn, Atria, $27.95, 9780743270427

13. The Catch
Archer Mayor, St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95, 9780312381912

14. The Lucky One
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $24.99, 9780446579933

15. The Widows of Eastwick
John Updike, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307269607

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Dewey
Vicki Myron, Grand Central, $19.99, 9780446407410

2. Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Thomas L. Friedman, FSG, $27.95, 9780374166854

3. The Snowball
Alice Schroeder, Bantam, $35, 9780553805093

4. The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401323257

5. My Stroke of Insight
Jill Bolte Taylor, Viking, $24.95, 9780670020744

6. Goodnight Bush
Erich Origen, Gan Golan, Little Brown, $14.99, 9780316040419

7. The Wordy Shipmates
Sarah Vowell, Riverhead, $25.95, 9781594489990

8. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316143479

9. Tried by War
James M. McPherson, Penguin Press, $35, 9781594201912

10. The Limits of Power
Andrew J. Bacevich, Metropolitan, $24, 9780805088151

11. Champlain's Dream
David Hackett Fischer, S&S, $40, 9781416593324

12. A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
Bill O'Reilly, Broadway, $26, 9780767928823

13. Wesley the Owl
Stacey O'Brien, Free Press, $23, 9781416551737

14. Izzy & Lenore
Jon Katz, Villard, $24, 9781400066308

15. Martha Stewart's Cooking School
Martha Stewart, Clarkson Potter, $45, 9780307396440

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. The Shack
William P. Young, Windblown, $14.99, 9780964729230

2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz, Riverhead, $14, 9781594483295

3. Out Stealing Horses
Per Petterson, Picador, $14, 9780312427085

4. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery, Europa Editions, $15, 9781933372600

5. Run
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $14.95, 9780061340642

6. Loving Frank
Nancy Horan, Ballantine, $14, 9780345495006

7. Bridge of Sighs
Richard Russo, Vintage, $14.95, 9781400030903

8. The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd, Penguin, $14, 9780142001745

9. World Without End
Ken Follett, NAL, $22, 9780451224996

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

11. The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga, Free Press, $14, 9781416562603

12. The Best American Short Stories 2008
Salman Rushdie, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Houghton Mifflin, $14, 9780618788774

13. Sarah's Key
Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95, 9780312370848

14. In the Woods
Tana French, Penguin, $14, 9780143113492

15. Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $14, 9780812971835

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

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

2. Dreams From My Father
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773

3. Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks, Vintage, $14.95, 9781400033539

4. The Nine
Jeffrey Toobin, Anchor, $15.95, 9781400096794

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

6. The Zookeeper's Wife
Diane Ackerman, Norton, $14.95, 9780393333060

7. The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9780307237705

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

9. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, Harper Perennial, $14.95, 9780060852566

10. A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle, Plume, $14, 9780452289963

11. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2009
Old Farmer's Almanac, $6.95, 9781571984531

12. Look Me in the Eye
John Elder Robison, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9780307396181

13. A Little History of the World
E.H. Gombrich, Yale Univ. Press, $12.95, 9780300143324

14. Marley & Me
John Grogan, Harper, $13.95, 9780060817091

15. A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah, FSG, $12, 9780374531263

MASS MARKET

1. Now and Then
Robert B. Parker, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425224144

2. Duma Key
Stephen King, Pocket, $9.99, 9781416552963

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

4. The Naming of the Dead
Ian Rankin, Little Brown, $7.99, 9780316018869

5. Stone Cold
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $9.99, 9780446615648

6. Nights in Rodanthe
Nicholas Sparks, Warner Vision, $7.99, 9780446612708

7. Slipknot
Linda Greenlaw, Hyperion, $6.99, 9780786891238

8. Double Cross
James Patterson, Grand Central, $9.99, 9780446198981

9. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition
Merriam-Webster (Eds.), Merriam-Webster, $7.50, 9780877799290

10. Playing for Pizza
John Grisham, Dell, $7.99, 9780440244714

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Brisingr (Inheritance, Book 3)
Christopher Paolini, Knopf, $27.50, 9780375826726

2. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2)
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $10.99, 9780316024969

3. Twilight
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $10.99, 9780316038386

4. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3)
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $19.99, 9780316160209

5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $10.95, 9780810979772

6. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4)
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $22.99, 9780316067928

7. Gallop!
Rufus Butler Seder, Workman, $12.95, 9780761147633

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

9. Swing!
Rufus Butler Seder, Workman, $12.95, 9780761151272

10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810993136

11. If You Give a Cat a Cupcake
Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illus.), Laura Geringer, $16.99, 9780060283247

12. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $17.99, 9780439023481

13. Bats at the Library
Brian Lies, Houghton Mifflin, $16, 9780618999231

14. Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $7.99, 9780140564341

15. The Way We Work
David Macaulay, Houghton Mifflin, $35, 9780618233786