Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests. This week’s list of bestsellers is from Mitchie’s Fine Black Art & Gift Gallery, 323-6901.

1. Hot Johnny (And the Women Who Loved Him) by Sandra Jackson-Opoku

2. How To Make Black America Better: Leading African-Americans Speak Out by Tavis Smily

3. Casting the First Stone by Kimberla Lawson Roby

4. The Slaughter: An American Atrocity by Carroll Case

5. The Haunting of Hip-Hop by Bertice Berry

6. Angel on My Shoulder by Natalie Cole

7. The Great Investment: Faith, Family and Finance by T.D. Jakes

8. Sacred Woman by Queen Afua

9. The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Century by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West

10. Blind Ambitions by Lotita Files

This article appears in February 16 • 2001.

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