Local Bestsellers

Book Sense is the cornerstone of an effort by the American Booksellers Association, a consortium of independent bookstores across the nation, to create a national identity for independent bookstores. Below is this week's list of bestselling paperback fiction. Local bookstores participating in Book Sense include Adventures in Crime and Space, BookPeople, and Book Woman.

1. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

2. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

3. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

4. Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

5. Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

6. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding

7. Jim the Boy by Tony Earley

8. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

9. Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

10.We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates