Trade Paperback Fiction Bestseller List for November 20, 2000 from sales the week ending November 12 Online at www.bookweb.org Thursday, November 16 Published in Bookselling This Week Monday, November 20 For the Book Sense store nearest you, call 1-888-BOOKSENSE   TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION last week / # of weeks 1 Plainsong Kent Haruf, 0375705856, Vintage, $13.00 A heartstrong story of family and romance, set on the High Plains of Colorado. A Top Ten 'Book Sense 76' Pick. 1/12 2 The Poisonwood Bible - A Top Ten 'Book Sense 76' Pick Barbara Kingsolver, 0060930535, HarperPerennial, $14.00 Set in the Belgian Congo, an ambitious, beautifully written novel by an indie-bookseller favorite. 3/51 3 Girl In Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland, 014029628X, Penguin, $12.00 Eight vibrant stories that trace the history of a Vermeer painting through its various owners. A Top Ten 'Book Sense 76' Pick. 2/6 4 The Red Tent Anita Diamant, 0312195516, Picador, $14.00 A fascinating re-imagining of the biblical Dinah, daughter to Jacob and Leah, as well as the lives of all women during that time. 4/45 5 Waiting Ha Jin, 0375706410, Vintage, $13.00 Just out in paperback, this winner of the National Book Award is an austere and affecting novel about love and politics. 5/8 6 Ahab's Wife Sena Jeter Naslund, 0688177859, HarperPerennial, $15.00 A grand work of historical fiction that looks at the epic of Moby Dick from another perspective. A Top Ten 'Book Sense 76' Pick. 6/6 7 Disgrace - 1st Week on List J. M. Coetzee, 0140296409, Penguin, $13.00 The 1999 winner of the Booker prize, just out in paperback. -/1 8 Daughter Of Fortune Isabel Allende, 0060932759, HarperPerennial, $14.00 An elegant, ambitious novel where a brave and independent woman's mid-1800's journey from Chile to a new life in California also becomes a spiritual journey. 7/11 9 Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem, 0375724834, Vintage, $13.00 The brilliantly imaginative Lethem riffs on the classic detective novel in this story of an orphaned Tourette's sufferer working for a small time mobster in Brooklyn. 11/3 10 Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri, 039592720X, Mariner, $12.00 A Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of stories set in both India and America. 8/30 11 The Hours Michael Cunningham, 0312243022, Picador, $13.00 10/29 12 Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind Ann B. Ross, 0688177751, HarperPerennial, $13.00 9/29 13 Chocolat Joanne Harris, 0140282033, Penguin, $12.95 -/43 14 A Gesture Life Chang Rae Lee, 1573228281, Riverhead, $13.00 12/4 15 The Map Of Love Ahdaf Soueif, 0385720114, Anchor, $14.00 -/2   ON THE RISE   34 The Persian Pickle Club Sandra Dallas, 0312147015, St. Martin's, $11.95 This favorite of independent booksellers since 1996 tells the memorable story of a group of Kansas women in the 1930s who meet to quilt and share their lives. 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.