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. Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose

2. The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan

3. The Hours by Michael Cunningham

4. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

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

6. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

7. Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel

8. Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen by Larry McMurtry

9. Texas Curiosities by John Kelso

10. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

This article appears in March 17 • 2000.

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