[The Independent Bestseller List]

The Independent Bestseller List®

Click here for the Best-selling books of 1998.

January  5, 1999.
The Hardcover List

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Fiction Non-Fiction
1. Man in Full : A Novel
by Wolfe, Tom (Farrar Straus & Giroux (T))
List Price: $28.95
1. Tuesdays With Morrie : An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Nova Audio Books)
by Albom, Mitch (Brilliance Corp)
List Price: $23.95
2. Amsterdam : A Novel
by McEwan, Ian (Doubleday)
List Price: $21.00
2. The Professor and the Madman
by Winchester, Simon (Harper Audio)
List Price: $18.00
3. The Poisonwood Bible
by Kingsolver, Barbara (Harpercollins)
List Price: $26.00
3. Elegy for Iris
by Bayley, John (St Martins Pr (T))
List Price: $22.95
4. Harry Potter : And the Sorcerer's Stone
by Rowling, J. K. (Scholastic Paperbacks (T))
List Price: $16.95
4. The Greatest Generation
by Brokaw, Tom (Random House (T))
List Price: $24.95
5. The Love of a Good Woman : Stories
by Munro, Alice (Knopf)
List Price: $24.00
5. King of the World : Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
by Remnick, David (Random House (T))
List Price: $25.00
6. Blindness
by Saramago, Jose/ Pontiero, Giovanni (Trn) (Harcourt Brace)
List Price: $22.00
6. New Rules for the New Economy : 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World
by Kelly, Kevin (Viking Pr)
List Price: $19.95
7. Birds of America : Stories
by Moore, Lorrie (Knopf)
List Price: $23.00
7. Shakespeare : The Invention of the Human
by Bloom, Harold (Riverhead Books)
List Price: $35.00
8. Gates of Fire : An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
by Pressfield, Steven (Doubleday)
List Price: $23.95
8. How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci : Seven Steps to Everyday Genius
by Gelb, Michael (Delacorte Pr)
List Price: $24.95
9. The Hours
by Cunningham, Michael (Farrar Straus & Giroux (T))
List Price: $22.00
9. A Walk in the Woods
by Bryson, Bill (Broadway Books)
List Price: $25.00
10. Cloudsplitter
by Banks, Russell (Harpercollins)
List Price: $27.50
10. When Things Start to Think
by Gershenfeld, Neil (Henry Holt & Co)
List Price: $25.00
11. Marlfox (Redwall)
by Jacques, Brian/ Fangorn (Ilt) (Putnam Pub Group (T))
List Price: $22.99
11. Tibet : Through the Red Box
by Sis, Peter (Farrar Straus & Giroux (T))
List Price: $25.00
12. The Farming of Bones
by Danticat, Edwidge (Soho Pr)
List Price: $23.00
12. Lindbergh
by Berg, A. Scott (Putnam Pub Group (T))
List Price: $30.00
13. Evening
by Minot, Susan (Knopf)
List Price: $23.00
13. The Gifts of the Jews : How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Hinges of History, Vol. 2.)
by Cahill, Thomas (Doubleday)
List Price: $23.50
14. Collected Fictions : Jorge Luis Borges
by Borges, Jorge Luis/ Hurley, Andrew (Viking Pr)
List Price: $40.00
14. The Alphabet Versus the Goddess : The Conflict Between Word and Image
by Shlain, Leonard (Viking Pr)
List Price: $24.95
15. Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine : Stories
by Jones, Thom (Little Brown & Co (T))
List Price: $23.00
15. Isaiah Berlin : A Life
by Ignatieff, Michael/ Ignatieff (Metropolitan Books)
List Price: $30.00

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and a number of other stores.

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