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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Sunday, December 20, 2009

Hawaii best-sellers

Advertiser Staff

This list is a rotating compilation by local booksellers. This week: retail sales at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Kähala, for Dec. 12.

FICTION

1. "Hawai'i Snowman" by Christine and Michel Le

2. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown

3. "Divine Misdemeanors" by Laurell K. Hamilton

4. "The Fire Kimono" by Laura Joh Rowland

5. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

6. "Under the Dome" by Stephen King

7. "U is for Undertow" by Sue Grafton

8. "Pirate Latitudes" by Michael Crichton

9. "La's Orchestra Saves the World" by Alexander McCall Smith

10. "I, Alex Cross" by James Patterson

NONFICTION

1. "Among Friends" by Mary Lou Sanelli

2. "Talking Hawai'i's Story: Oral Histories of an Island People" by Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Warren S. Nishimoto, and Cynthia A. Oshiro

3. "The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War" by James Bradley

4. "The Lego Book" by Nevin Martell

5. "Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan" by Greg Mortenson

6. "O'ahu Hikes" by Yvonne Harris

7. "The Blind Side" by Michael Lewis

8. "Stories of Aloha" by Jocelyn Fujii

9. "Ben: A Memoir, From Street Kid to Governor" by Benjamin Cayetano

10. "What the Dog Saw" by Malcolm Gladwell