The Indie Music Bestseller List

Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide, for the eight-week period ending September 14, 2010. 

1. This Is Your Brain on Music
Daniel J. Levitin, Plume, $15, 9780452288522

2. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $27, 9780066211312

3. Composed: A Memoir
Rosanne Cash, Viking, $26.95, 9780670021963

4. Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks, Vintage, $14.95, 9781400033539

5. The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824
Harvey Sachs, Random House, $26, 9781400060771

6. The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
Eric Siblin, Atlantic Monthly, $24, 9780802119292

7. Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon – And the Journey of a Generation
Sheila Weller, Washington Square Press, $17, 9780743491488

8. The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger
Alec Wilkinson, Vintage, $14, 9780307390981

9. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Alex Ross, Picador, $18, 9780312427719

10. You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup
Peter Doggett, Harper, $24.99, 9780061774461

11. The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
Victor L. Wooten, Berkley, $15, 9780425220931

12. Miles to Go
Miley Cyrus, Hyperion, $12.99, 9781423134787

13. Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits
Barney Hoskyns, Broadway, $19.99, 9780767927093

14. Scar Tissue
Anthony Kiedis, Hyperion, $15.99, 9781401307455

15. The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
Daniel J. Levitin, Plume, $16, 9780452295483

16. The Soloist
Steve Lopez, Berkley, $15, 9780425226001

17. Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter
Randy Schmidt, Chicago Review Press, $26.95, 9781556529764

18. Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life
Steve Almond, Random House, $23, 9781400066209

19. The Road to Woodstock
Michael Lang, Ecco, $14.99, 9780061576584

20. 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List
Tom Moon, Workman, $19.95, 9780761139638

21. When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison
Greil Marcus, PublicAffairs, $22.95, 9781586488215

22. Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Terry Teachout, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30, 9780151010899

23. Bob Marley: The Untold Story
Chris Salewicz, Faber & Faber, $27.50, 9780865479999

24. R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country
Stephen Calt, R. Crumb (Illus.), Abrams, $19.95, 9780810930865

25. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
Thaddeus Carhart, Random House, $15, 9780375758621