Local Bestsellers

Local Bestsellers

For the past 10 years, Lynn Bender has been a bookseller on the Drag ­ at Europa Books, the University Co-Op, and, most recently, at Desert Books, which he recently closed. Below is Bender's "All-time Bestsellers From 10 Years of Selling Books on the Drag, October 15, 1989-November 1, 1999." The list comes from Bender's "inventory master data file."

1. Neuromancer by William Gibson

2. Simulations by Jean Baudrillard

3. Re/Search: Angry Women

4. Too Much Coffee Man, #1 by Shannon Wheeler

5. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure, retold by Anne Rice

6. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated

Culture by Douglas Coupland

7. Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

8. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

9. Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

10. Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille