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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 2010)
Sales Week Ending January 31, 2010
Hardcover Fiction
- The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95 - The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $26.99 - The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $25.95 - The Swan Thieves
Elizabeth Kostova, Little Brown, $26.99 - Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, Holt, $27 - Where the God of Love Hangs Out
Amy Bloom, Random House, $25 - The Godfather of Kathmandu
John Burdett, Knopf, $25.95 - Noah’s Compass
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $25.95 - Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $26 - 36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Pantheon, $27.95 - Too Much Happiness
Alice Munro, Knopf, $25.95 - Day Out of Days
Sam Shepard, Knopf, $25.95 - Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffenegger, Scribner, $26.99 - The Unnamed
Joshua Ferris, Reagan Arthur Books, $24.99 - The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $29.95
Hardcover Nonfiction
- Game Change
John Heilemann, Mark Halperin, Harper, $27.99 - Committed
Elizabeth Gilbert, Viking, $26.95 - Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $27 - The Empathic Civilization
Jeremy Rifkin, Tarcher, $27.95 - Stones Into Schools
Greg Mortenson, Viking, $26.95 - Drive
Daniel H. Pink, Riverhead, $26.95 - Nurtureshock
Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman, Twelve, $24.99 - The Kind Diet
Alicia Silverstone, Rodale, $29.99 - Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $27.99 - Open
Andre Agassi, Knopf, $28.95 - The Happiness Project
Gretchen Craft Rubin, Harper, $25.99 - What the Dog Saw
Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $27.99 - What Is God?
Jacob Needleman, Jeremy P. Tarcher, $24.95 - Half the Sky
Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Knopf, $27.95 - The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
Norton, $24.95
Trade Paperback Fiction
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $14.95 - Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $14 - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery, Europa Editions, $15 - Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann, Random House, $15 - Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95 - The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein, Harper, $14.99 - A Reliable Wife
Robert Goolrick, Algonquin, $14.95 - Sarah’s Key
Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin’s Griffin, $13.95 - The Piano Teacher
Janice Y.K. Lee, Penguin, $15 - When Will There Be Good News?
Kate Atkinson, Back Bay, $13.99 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Dial, $14 - City of Thieves
David Benioff, Plume, $15 - The Women
T.C. Boyle, Penguin, $16 - The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
David Wroblewski, Ecco, $16.99 - The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold, Back Bay, $14.99
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
- Food Rules
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $11 - Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $16 - How We Decide
Jonah Lehrer, Mariner, $14.95 - In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $15 - A People’s History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper, $18.95 - Animals Make Us Human
Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson, Mariner, $15.95 - The Value of Nothing
Rajeev Charles Patel, Picador, $14 - Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder, Random House, $15.95 - The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $16 - Zagat San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants 2010
Zagat, Zagat, $14.95 - The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15 - My Life in France
Julia Child, Anchor, $15 - Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $15 - The Lost City of Z
David Grann, Vintage, $15.95 - The Blind Side
Michael Lewis, Norton, $13.95
Mass Market
- The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Warner, $6.99 - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $7.99 - The Scarecrow
Michael Connelly, Grand Central, $9.99 - Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $6.99 - Dear John
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $7.99 - The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold, Little Brown, $7.99 - Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $6.99 - Ender in Exile
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $7.99 - To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Warner, $7.99 - The Charlemagne Pursuit
Steve Berry, Ballantine, $9.99
Children’s Titles
- The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan, Miramax, $7.99 - The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 2)
Rick Riordan, Miramax, $7.99 - The Lion & the Mouse
Jerry Pinkney, Little Brown, $16.99 - The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 4)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99 - The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $17.99 - The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion Books for Children, $7.99 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99 - Leprechaun in Late Winter (Magic Tree House #43)
Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca (Illus.), Random House, $12.99 - Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4)
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $22.99 - Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3)
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $9.99 - The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $11.99 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $13.95 - Juliet the Valentine Fairy
Daisy Meadows, Little Apple, $6.99 - When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead, Wendy Lamb, $15.99 - Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $17.99
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 Review
Sunday, January 31, 2010
- Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend by James S. Hirsch
- Union Atlantic a novel by Adam Haslett
- Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
- What Is God? by Jacob Needleman
- The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason
- Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews by Oscar Wilde, Matthew Hofer (Editor), Gary Scharnhorst (Editor)
- Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
- Inside Obama’s Brain by Sasha Abramsky
- Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Top Shelf Picks
From Spectator Books, Oakland
Fiction
- First Rule by Robert Crais. This new thriller features both PIs Joe Pike and Elvis Cole. A family execution, violent robberies, and Eastern European organized crime all lead to a game of intrigue among dangerous LA crooks.
- The Godfather of Kathmandu by John Burdett. The fourth adventure of Sonchai Jitpleecheep has an array of off kilter storylines full of moral ambiguity and cultural richness. The exotic narrative will captivate readers.
- The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent. A engrossing coming of age saga set against the Salem witch trials of 1752, bringing history to life through one family’s travails. New in paper.
- The Women by T C Boyle. This novel features Frank Lloyd Wright and the four significant women in his life. The story is told in reverse chronological order, emphasizing the strength of Boyle’s prose and vivid description.
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. A sweeping novel that follows several characters and their children from India to Africa and finally New York. The narrative combines the practice of medicine with extraordinary storytelling to captivate the reader. New in paper.
Nonfiction
- Charles Darwin’s On The Origin Of The Species by Michael Keller. Don’t have time to read the lengthy original? Try this graphic adaptation that adds images to Darwin’s words and summarizes his ideas in a dramatic way.
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. The author spent a year trying to be happier, using techniques both ancient and modern. Her blog of that year has been turned into an entertaining, insightful book.
- Shark’s Fin And Sichuan Pepper – A Sweet-Sour Memoir Of Eating In China by Fuchsia Dunlop. Asian food expert Dunlop recreates her travels in China in this fascinating cultural memoir which maintains that to understand China one must understand its cuisine. Now in paper.
- The Tattooed Lady: A History by Amelia Klem Osterud. Written by a tattooed librarian from Milwaukee, this is a wonderfully illustrated history of a popular art form.
- You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier. Berkeley internet pioneer Lanier has issued a passionate manifesto calling for a re-examination of how the structure of the internet influences our daily lives.
