Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests. This week’s list of bestsellers is from Book Woman, 918 W. 12th.

1. Blanche Passes Go by Barbara Neely

2. Ladies’ Night at Finbar’s Hotel: A Novel devised and edited by Maere Bincy, et al.

3. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

4. The Not So Big House by Sarah Susanka

5. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

6. Sleeping Bones by Katherine V. Forrest

7. Best Lesbian Erotica 2000 edited by Tristan Taormino

8. Post-Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

9. Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin by Alice Echols

10. Barbara Jordan: American Hero by Mary Beth Rogers

This article appears in September 1 • 2000.

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