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Art & Books

Alt Best-Seller List

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FICTION

1 WHITE TEETH,by Zadie Smith (Hamilton) — UK sensation’s first novel about culture clash in London is a winner.

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2 ANIL’S GHOST, by Michael Ondaatje (McClelland & Stewart) — Follow-up to The English Patient is still going strong.

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3 DISGRACE, by J.M. Coetzee (Vintage) — Brilliant Booker winner turns into popular summer reading.

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4 AFFINITY, by Sarah Waters (Riverhead) — Excellent follow-up to Tipping The Velvet unfolds in a women’s prison.

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5 KIT’S LAW, by Donna Morrissey (Penguin) — Fourteen year-old lives in Newfoundland with her mentally handicapped mother.

NON-FICTION

1 EXPERIENCE, by Martin Amis (Knopf) — UK novelist pens a moving memoir.

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2 NOW CITY GUIDE, by Steven Davey (McLelland & Stewart) — Tourist season gooses sales of NOW’s alt-guide to Toronto.

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3 TOO CLOSE TO THE FALLS, by Catherine Gildener (ECW) — Recollections of a very unconventional childhood in the shadow of Niagara Falls.

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4 IN A SUNBURNED COUNTRY, by Bill Bryson (Duke) — Whip-smart travel guru goes to Australia.

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5 A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS, by Dave Eggers (Simon & Schuster) — Memoir tracks powerful tale of a young orphan.

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