Thursday, July 23, 1998

North Shore Bestsellers

The following is a list of best-selling fiction and nonfiction hardcover and paperback books on the North Shore last week:

1. Point of Origin by Patricia Cornwell

6. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

1. The North Shore by Joseph E. Garland

2. A Pirate Looks At Fifty by Jimmy Buffett

3. Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

7. We Are Our Mothers' Daughters by Cokie Roberts

8. The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

9. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

10.Titan by Ronald Chernow

11.Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Cory Kinder

Paperback

1. The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

2. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

3. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

4. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

5. Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell

6. Up Island by Anne Rivers Siddons

7. Orchard by Adele C. Robertson

8. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

9. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

10.The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve

Participating stores this week include: The Book Shop of Beverly Farms; The Book Rack of Newburyport; Border's Books and Music Store, Peabody; Ipswich Bookstore; Jabberwocky of Newburyport; Spirit of '76 Bookstore, Marblehead; The Tangled Web, Salem; Toad Hall Bookstore, Rockport.