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The Book Sense Holiday Bestseller List
Printer-friendly versionHere are the top 50 of ALL bestsellers -- hardcover, paperback, and children's combined -- at America's independent bookstores from November 25 to December 29, 2002.
Of note: The top two bestsellers, both novels, summarize the independent bookstores' power to sell both the literary surprises of the year, as well as the commercial blockbusters thought to be the province of the mass merchandisers.
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The Top 50 of ALL Holiday Bestsellers
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From November 25 to December 29, 2002:
An asterisk (*) indicates that the book was a Book Sense 76 Pick.
| 1. | The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Little Brown, $21.95) * |
| 2. | Prey, Michael Crichton (HarperCollins, $26.95) |
| 3. | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Sijie Dai (Anchor, $10) * |
| 4. | Bel Canto, Ann Patchett (Perennial, $13.95) * |
| 5. | Skipping Christmas, John Grisham (Doubleday, $14.95) |
| 6. | Peace Like a River, Leif Enger (Grove, $13) * |
| 7. | Bush at War, Bob Woodward (S&S, $28) |
| 8. | The Night Before Christmas, Robert Sabuda (Little Simon, $24.95) |
| 9. | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor, $11.95) * |
| 10. | Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve?, Jan Brett (Putnam, $16.99) |
| 11. | Stupid White Men, Michael Moore (Regan, $24.95) |
| 12. | Esther's Gift, Jan Karon (Viking, $10.95) |
| 13. | The Summons, John Grisham (Dell, $7.99) |
| 14. | Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand (Ballantine, $15.95) * |
| 15. | Empire Falls, Richard Russo (Vintage, $14.95) * |
| 16. | The Carnivorous Carnival, Lemony Snicket (HarperCollins, $10.99) * |
| 17. | Life of Pi, Yann Martel (Harcourt, $25) * |
| 18. | Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $8.99) |
| 19. | The Christmas Train, David Baldacci (Warner, $19.95) |
| 20. | My Losing Season, Pat Conroy (Doubleday, $27.95) * |
| 21. | Leadership, Rudolph Giuliani (Miramax Books, $25.95) |
| 22. | The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2003, (St. Martin's, $11.95) |
| 23. | Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (Perennial, $13.95) * |
| 24. | Stranger in the Woods, Carl R. Sams II, Jean Stoick (Carl R. Sams, $19.95) * |
| 25. | John Adams, David McCullough (Touchstone, $18.95) |
| 26. | The Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke (Chicken House/Scholastic, $16.95) * |
| 27. | Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (Owl, $13) * |
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Everyday Grace, Marianne Williamson (Riverhead, $19.95) |
| 29. | The Old Farmer's Almanac 2003 (Yankee, $5.95) |
| 30. | You Shall Know Our Velocity, Dave Eggers (McSweeney's, $22) |
| 31. | The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle (New World, $22.95) * |
| 32. | Portrait of a Killer, Patricia Cornwell (Putnam, $27.95) |
| 33. | I Don't Know How She Does It, Allison Pearson (Knopf, $23) * |
| 34. | Onion Ad Nauseum (Three Rivers, $17) |
| 35. | The Piano Tuner, Daniel Philippe Mason (Knopf, $24) * |
| 36. | The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (Picador, $15) * |
| 37. | Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris (Back Bay, $8.95) |
| 38. | Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook, Dawn Ranck (Good Books, $16.95) * |
| 39. | The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket (HarperTrophy, $10.99) * |
| 40. | More George W. Bushisms, Jacob Weisberg (Fireside, $9.95) |
| 41. | Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris (Perennial, $13.95) * |
| 42. | The Conquerors, Michael Beschloss (S&S, $26.95) |
| 43. | The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin, $18.95) |
| 44. | Four Blind Mice, James Patterson (Little Brown, $27.95) |
| 45. | Hoot, Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $15.95) * |
| 46. | The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien (Ballantine, $7.99) |
| 47. | Silent Night, Stanley Weintraub (Plume, $14) |
| 48. | A Long Way From Home, Tom Brokaw (Random House, $24.95) |
| 49. | The Little Friend, Donna Tartt (Knopf, $26) * |
| 50. | Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Dr. Robert C. Atkins (Avon, $7.99) |
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