Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests. This week’s list of bestsellers is from Desert Books, 1904 Guadalupe.

1. Running Linux, Third Edition by Matt Welsh

2. Activist Cookbook: Creative Actions for a Fair Economy by Andrew Boyd

3. The Official Guide to Learning Open GL Version 1.2 by Mason Woo

4. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis

5. Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture by Simon Reynolds

6. JavaScript Pocket Reference by David Flanagan

7. Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk by Dan Sicko

8. Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis by Christian Parenti

9. Mastering Algorithms With Perl by John Orwant

10. Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web by Elizabeth Castro

This article appears in October 1 • 1999.

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