Here are the top 10 bestsellers from three local bookstores. Data is most recent available.
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1. Being Dead Is No Excuse
Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays
2. She’s Got Next
Melissa King
3. Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
Gordon Livingston
4. The World Is Flat
Thomas Freidman
5. The Grail Bird
Tim Gallagher
6. Arkansas Politics and Government
Jay Barth
7. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt
8. Eventide
Kent Haruf
9. Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork
Gov. Mike Huckabee
10. The Queen of the Turtle Derby
Julia Reed
Barnes and Noble
1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (pre-order)
J.K. Rowling
2. 1776
David McCullough
3. The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
4. Natural Cures ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know About
Kevin Trudeau
5. The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman
6. Eleven on Top (A Stephanie Plum Novel)
Janet Evanovich
7. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt
8. Eldest (Inheritance Trilogy No. 2)
Christopher Paolini
9. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Ann Brashares
10. Lifeguard
James Patterson
That Bookstore in Blytheville
1. Being Dead Is No Excuse
Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays
2. Twilight
Katherine Mosby
3. Puttin’ on the Grits: A Southern Guide to Entertaining
Deborah Ford
4. Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork
Gov. Mike Huckabee
5. Gods in Alabama
Joshilyn Jackson
6. The Summer We Got Saved
Pat Cunningham Devoto
7. Arkansas Spring: Dogwoods, Waterfalls, and Wildflowers
Tim Ernst
8. The Ladies of Garrison Gardens
Louise Shaffer
9. Paula Deen and Friends: Living It Up, Southern Style
Paula Deen, Martha Nesbit
10. Cotton Field of Dreams
Janis Kearney

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