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 April 10, 2000 from sales the week ending April 2 Online at www.bookweb.org Thursday, April 6 Published in Bookselling This Week Monday, April 10 HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Daughter Of Fortune, Isabelle Allende HarperCollins, 24.95, 006019491X A beautiful, ambitious novel about a brave and independent woman whose journey from Chile to a new life in California in the mid 1800's during the gold rush forever changes her destiny. 2. The Brethren, John Grisham Doubleday, 27.95, 0385497466 Set in a minimum security prison for "white collar" criminals, the title refers to three inmates, former judges whose latest scam goes terrible awry . . . 3. Back Roads -- 1st Week On List, Tawni O'Dell Viking, 24.95, 0670894184 Oprah's latest selection, about a family in poor, rural Pennsylvania where the eldest child, Harley, has the job of raising his three sisters when his mother is sent to jail for murdering their abusive father. 4. Girl With A Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier Dutton, 21.95, 052594527X Wonderful historical fiction of Vermeer's household, and the relationship between the artist and a young servant woman. 5. Bridget Jones: the Edge Of Reason, Helen Fielding Viking, 24.95, 0670892963 Everywoman's favorite modern heroine is back, and with her fabulous new life comes a host of hilarious new troubles. 6. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, Seamus Heaney FSG, 25.00, 0374111197 A brilliant new translation of the ancient, epic poem that earned Nobel Laureate Heaney Britain's Whitbread Prize. 7. Gap Creek, Robert Morgan Algonquin, 22.95, 1565122968 A heartbreaking but unsentimental story of a young woman in turn-of-the-century Appalachia. 8. Carolina Moon, Nora Roberts Putnam, 24.95, 0399145923 A woman returns to her small southern hometown where her best friend was murdered in this suspenseful romance. 9. Deep South, Nevada Barr Putnam, 23.95, 0399145869 The latest in the Anna Pigeon mystery series finds park ranger Pigeeon traveling to Mississippi where she discovers a gruesome murder fraught with racial implications. 10. In America -- 1st Week On list, Susan Sontag FSG, 26.00, 0374175403 A sweeping, grand and literary hisorical novel set in the 19th century. 11. Plainsong, Kent Haruf Knopf, 25.00, 0375406182 12. Lion's Game, Nelson DeMille Warner, 26.95, 0446520659 13. City Of God, E.L. Doctorow Random House, 25.00, 0679447830 14. Losing Julia, Jonathon Hull Delacorte, 24.95, 0385333757 15. The Gates Of the Alamo -- 1st Week On List; A 'Book Sense 76 Pick', Stephen Harrigan Knopf, 25.00, 0679447172 ON THE RISE 21. In the Fall, Jeffrey Lent Atlantic Monthly, 25.00, 0871137658 A beautifully written and epic first novel beginning at the end of the Civil War and spanning three generations. A Top Ten '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.