Hardcover Nonfiction 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 June 5, 2000 from sales the week ending May 28 Online at www.bookweb.org Thursday, May 30   HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. Flags Of Our Fathers - 1st Week at #1, James Bradley, Ron Powers (Contributor) Bantam, $24.95, 0553111337 Bradley captures the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. 2. 10 Things I Wish I'd Known, Maria Shriver Warner, $19.95, 0446526126 Expanded from Shriver's acclaimed College of the Holy Cross commencement address, this is a down-to-earth -- and at times laugh-out-loud -- book that will help people of all ages on all roads of life. 3. In the Heart Of the Sea - Up From #9 Last Week, Nathaniel Philbrick Viking, $24.95, 0670891576 In a harrowing page-turner, Philbrick brings to life the incredible story of the wreck of the whale ship Essex. 4. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris Little Brown, $22.95, 0316777722 Sedaris's incredibly funny and witty new collection, recounting, in inimitable fashion, the story of his unconventional life. 5. Who Moved My Cheese, Spencer Johnson Putnam, $19.95, 0399144463 Johnson teaches "An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life." 6. Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom Doubleday, $21.00, 0385484518 The longtime bestseller about the life lessons taught to the author by his dying mentor. 7. Soul Stories, Gary Zukav S&S, $24.00, 0743204077 The latest by the author of SEAT OF THE SOUL. 8. How To Read and Why, Harold Bloom Scribner, $25.00, 0684859068 A beautiful, impassioned book on reading well as only Bloom could say it. 9. How to Know God, Deepak Chopra Harmony, $24.00, 0609600788 Chopra's most ambitious and important work yet -- an exploration of the idea that everyone can have the direct experience of divinity. 10. A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers S&S, $23.00, 0684863472 Heartbreaking, yes, but brilliant, and funny, too, the memoir of a young man who at the age of 21 lost both parents to cancer and raised his 7-year-old brother. 11. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell Little Brown, $24.95, 0316316962 12. From Dawn To Decadence, Jacques Barzun HarperCollins, $36.00, 0060175869 13. Body For Life, Bill Phillips & Michael D'Orso HarperCollins, $25.00, 0060193395 14. Eating Well For Optimum Health, Andrew Weil, M.D. Knopf, $25.00, 0375407545 15. Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying - 1st Week on List, Ram Dass Putnam, $22.22, 1573220493   ON THE RISE 19. Bobos in Paradise : The New Upper Class and How They Got There, David Brooks S&S, $25.00, 0684853779 A funny and on-target look at borgeois bohemians, or "bobo's," the new dominant class of the information economy, who combine the values of the counterculture sixties with those of the achieving eighties. 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.