Local Scene

Current best-sellers at Island Books, 3014 78th Ave. S.E., Mercer Island (206-232-6920)

Fiction

1. Gone, Mo Hayder

2. Rules of Civility, Amor Towles

3. The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes

4. The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach

5. Istanbul Passage, Joseph Kanon

Nonfiction

1. Destiny of the Republic,

Candice Millard

2. Wild, Cheryl Strayed

3. Maphead: Charting the Wide,

Weird World of Geography Wonks,

Ken Jennings

4. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree

of Forgetfulness, Alexandra Fuller

5. The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat: Craig Claiborne and the American Food Renaissance, Thomas McNamee