Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests. This week’s list of bestsellers is from Congress Avenue Booksellers, 716 Congress.

1. Gypsy Songman by Jerry Jeff Walker

2. Texas Cattle Barons: Their Families, Land & Legacy by Elmer Kelton and Kathleen Jo Ryan

3. Maps of Texas & the Southwest, 1513-1900 by James C. Martin and Robert Sidney Martin

4. ESPN SportsCentury by Michael MacCambridge

5. And the Crowd Goes Wild by Joe Garner

6. First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty by Bill Minutaglio

7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

8. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

9. Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

10. The Professor & the Madman by Simon Winchester

This article appears in December 17 • 1999.

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