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Bestseller List

The Northern California Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and the NCIBA. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the NCIBA and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org. (©NCIBA 2013)

Sales Week Ending May 19, 2013

Hardcover Fiction

  1. Inferno
    Dan Brown, Doubleday, $29.95
  2. A Delicate Truth
    John le Carré, Viking, $28.95
  3. The Woman Upstairs
    Claire Messud, Knopf, $25.95
  4. Maya’s Notebook
    Isabel Allende, Harper, $27.99
  5. Life After Life
    Kate Atkinson, Reagan Arthur Books, $27.99
  6. Gone Girl
    Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25
  7. Little Green
    Walter Mosley, Doubleday, $25.95
  8. The Golem and the Jinni
    Helene Wecker, Harper, $26.99
  9. Z
    Therese Anne Fowler, St. Martin’s, $25.99
  10. A Dance With Dragons
    George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $35
  11. The Interestings
    Meg Wolitzer, Riverhead, $27.95
  12. All That Is
    James Salter, Knopf, $26.95
  13. Dead Ever After
    Charlaine Harris, Ace, $27.95
  14. Americanah
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $26.95
  15. The Flamethrowers
    Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $26.99

Hardcover Nonfiction

  1. Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls
    David Sedaris, Little Brown, $27
  2. Cooked
    Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $27.95
  3. Lean In
    Sheryl Sandberg, Knopf, $24.95
  4. Vader’s Little Princess
    Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, $14.95
  5. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
    Rick Atkinson, Holt, $40
  6. Gulp
    Mary Roach, Norton, $26.95
  7. I Could Pee on This
    Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle, $12.95
  8. It’s All Good
    Gwyneth Paltrow, Grand Central, $32
  9. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
    Paul Theroux, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27
  10. My Beloved World
    Sonia Sotomayor, Knopf, $27.95
  11. Darth Vader and Son
    Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, $14.95
  12. Who Owns the Future?
    Jaron Lanier, S&S, $28
  13. VB6
    Mark Bittman, Clarkson Potter, $26
  14. The Drunken Botanist
    Amy Stewart, Algonquin, $19.95
  15. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
    Christopher Clark, Harper, $29.99

Trade Paperback Fiction

  1. The Great Gatsby
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $15
  2. Beautiful Ruins
    Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99
  3. The Orphan Master’s Son
    Adam Johnson, Random House, $15
  4. Where’d You Go, Bernadette
    Maria Semple, Back Bay, $14.99
  5. Bring Up the Bodies
    Hilary Mantel, Picador USA, $16
  6. The Language of Flowers
    Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Ballantine, $15
  7. Broken Harbor
    Tana French, Penguin, $16
  8. Istanbul Passage
    Joseph Kanon, Washington Square Press, $16
  9. The Black Box
    Michael Connelly, Grand Central, $14.99
  10. The Paris Wife
    Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15
  11. The Yellow Birds
    Kevin Powers, Back Bay, $14.99
  12. World War Z
    Max Brooks, Three Rivers, $14.95
  13. Wolf Hall
    Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16
  14. Phantom
    Jo Nesbø, Vintage, $14.95
  15. The Orchardist
    Amanda Coplin, Harper Perennial, $15.99

Trade Paperback Nonfiction

  1. Wild
    Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95
  2. Proof of Heaven
    Eben Alexander, M.D., S&S, $15.99
  3. Season of the Witch
    David Talbot, Free Press, $16
  4. Thinking, Fast and Slow
    Daniel Kahneman, FSG, $16
  5. Quiet
    Susan Cain, Broadway, $16
  6. God’s Hotel
    Victoria Sweet, Riverhead, $16
  7. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns)
    Mindy Kaling, Three Rivers, $14
  8. Why Does the World Exist?
    Jim Holt, Liveright Publishing Corporation, $16.95
  9. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
    Jenny Lawson, Berkley, $16
  10. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
    Anna Quindlen, Random House, $15
  11. F in Exams
    Richard Benson, Chronicle, $9.95
  12. Subliminal
    Leonard Mlodinow, Vintage Books, $15
  13. Zagat 2013 San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants
    Zagat Survey, $15.95
  14. Unlikely Friendships
    Jennifer Holland, Workman, $13.95
  15. The First 20 Minutes
    Gretchen Reynolds, Plume, $16

Mass Market

  1. A Game of Thrones
    George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99
  2. Ender’s Game
    Orson Scott Card, Tor, $6.99
  3. A Feast for Crows
    George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99
  4. A Clash of Kings
    George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99
  5. Defending Jacob
    William Landay, Dell, $7.99
  6. A Storm of Swords
    George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99
  7. 1984
    George Orwell, Signet, $9.99
  8. The Catcher in the Rye
    J.D. Salinger, Warner, $6.99
  9. The Diary of a Young Girl
    Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99
  10. The Wise Man’s Fear
    Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99

Children’s Titles

  1. Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    Dr. Seuss, Random House, $17.99
  2. The Fault in Our Stars
    John Green, Dutton, $17.99
  3. Goodnight Moon
    Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99
  4. The 5th Wave
    Rick Yancey, Putnam, $18.99
  5. Steam Train, Dream Train
    Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld (Illus.), Chronicle, $16.99
  6. The Dark
    Lemony Snicket, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Little Brown, $16.99
  7. Good Night San Francisco
    Adam Gamble, Santiago Cohen (Illus.), Our World of Books, $9.95
  8. Ivy and Bean
    Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall, Chronicle, $5.99
  9. Code Name Verity
    Elizabeth Wein, Hyperion, $9.99
  10. I Want My Hat Back
    Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $15.99
  11. Poems to Learn by Heart
    Caroline Kennedy, Jon J Muth (Illus.), Hyperion, $19.99
  12. Divergent
    Veronica Roth, Katherine Tegen Books, $9.99
  13. The One and Only Ivan
    Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $16.99
  14. Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
    Stephan Pastis, Candlewick, $14.99
  15. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
    Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99

Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association and the American Booksellers Association. For information on more titles, please visit IndieBound.org.

San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday Book Reviews

Sunday, May 26, 2013

  • And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
  • The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
  • Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center by Ray Monk
  • A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
  • Is This Tomorrow by Caroline Leavitt
  • Paper: An Elegy by Ian Sansom
  • The End of San Francisco by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Top Shelf Picks

From Green Apple Books, San Francisco

Fiction

  • A Guide to Being Born by Ramona Ausubel. A whimsical and touching collection of stories that explores the real and the fantastic.
  • The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. If this book were music, it would be a blend of Hebrew and Middle Eastern, with bass notes of impending danger underneath the harmonies.
  • A Questionable Shape by Bennett Sims. Yes, it’s a zombie novel, but also an emotionally resonant meditation on memory and loss.
  • Pacific by Tom Drury. An engaging novel, full of drive, following two distinct story lines, both edged with mystery and longing, sorrow and hope.

Nonfiction

  • Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson. Sets out to prove that some of the creatures alive right now are as fantastic as anything dreamt up by a fabulist.
  • I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane. A timely reissue of a classic work of memoir. Intense, crackling and unapologetic.
  • The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber. A gripping examination of a nurse’s 15-year-long murder spree.
  • Bas Jan Ader: Death is Elsewhere by Alexander Dumbadze. The first full-length biography of the conceptual artist who disappeared at sea in an attempt to cross the Atlantic in a 13-foot sailboat.

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