Hardcover Fiction Based on sales from independent bookstores across America. For the Book Sense store nearest you, call 1-888-BOOKSENSE Independent Bookstores for Independent Minds Bestseller List for March 20, 2000 from sales the week ending March 12 Online at www.bookweb.org Thursday, March 16 Published in Bookselling This Week Monday, March 20 HARDCOVER FICTION 1 The Brethren, John Grisham $27.95, Doubleday, 0385497466 Newest Grisham stays at #1. 2 Daughter Of Fortune, Isabelle Allende $24.95, HarperCollins, 006019491X The latest Oprah pick, a beautiful, ambitious novel by the renowned Chilean author. 3 Girl With A Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier $21.95, Dutton, 052594527X Wonderful historical fiction of Vermeer's household, and the relationship between the artist and a young servant woman. 4 Bridget Jones: the Edge Of Reason, Helen Fielding $24.95, Viking, 0670892963 Bridget is back! 5 Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, Seamus Heany $25.00, FSG, 0374111197 A brilliant new translation by the award winning poet. 6 Carolina Moon -- 1st Week On List, Nora Roberts $24.95, Putnam, 0399145923 7 Gap Creek, Robert Morgan $22.95, Algonquin, 1565122968 8 City Of God, E.LDoctorow $25.00, Random House, 0679447830 9 Plainsong, Kent Haruf $25.00, Knopf, 0375406182 10 Gertrude and Claudius, John Updike $23.00, Knopf, 0375409084 11 Lion's Game, Nelson DeMille $26.95, Warner, 0446520659 12 Tough Cookie -- 1st Week On List, Diane Mott Davidson $23.95, Bantam, 0553107232 13 Sick Puppy, Carl Hiaasen $25.00, Knopf, 0679454454 14 Losing Julia, Jonathon Hull $24.95, Delacorte, 0385333757 15 Waiting, Ha Jin $24.00, Pantheon, 0375406530   ON THE RISE 18 The Gates Of the Alamo, Stephen Harrigan $25.00, Knopf, 0679447172 A huge, riveting, deeply imagined novel about the siege and fall of the Alamo; A 'Book Sense 76' Pick. The Book Sense Bestseller List is copyrighted and cannot be reprinted without permission from the American Booksellers Association. For information, please contact Michael Hoynes, Marketing Officer, at: (914) 591-2665 ext. 1204, 828 Broadway, Tarrytown NY. Reprint Guidelines.