NCIBA Bookstore Bestseller Lists
The unique character of Northern California and the independent bookstores which serve the region (the nation’s second largest book market) help shape a bestseller list different from other lists. While there is overlap with other lists, the NCIBA list reflects the special qualities which help define the West Coast—culturally independent, socially aware, high-tech, and ethnically diverse. (©NCIBA 2008)
Sales Week Ending May 4, 2008
Hardcover Fiction
- Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri, Knopf, $25 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz, Riverhead, $24.95 - The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $22.95 - The Plague of Doves
Louise Erdrich, Harper, $25.95 - The Whole Truth
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $26.99 - Our Story Begins
Tobias Wolff, Knopf, $26.95 - Lush Life
Richard Price, FSG, $26 - The Girl of His Dreams
Donna Leon, Atlantic Monthly, $24 - Sundays at Tiffany’s
James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet, Little Brown, $24.99 - The Story of a Marriage
Andrew Sean Greer, FSG, $22 - Red Bird
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $23 - A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $25.95 - The Hakawati
Rabih Alameddine, Knopf, $25.95 - The Appeal
John Grisham, Doubleday, $27.95 - People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $25.95
Hardcover Nonfiction
- The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, Hyperion, $21.95 - Just Who Will You Be?
Maria Shriver, Hyperion, $14.95 - In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $21.95 - Bonk
Mary Roach, Norton, $24.95 - A Wolf at the Table
Augusten Burroughs, St. Martin’s, $24.95 - Home
Julie Andrews, Hyperion, $26.95 - A Remarkable Mother
Jimmy Carter, S&S, $22.95 - The Wise Heart
Jack Kornfield, Bantam, $28 - Ladies of Liberty
Cokie Roberts, Morrow, $26.95 - What Now?
Ann Patchett, Harper, $14.95 - The Post-American World
Fareed Zakaria, Norton, $25.95 - Beautiful Boy
David Sheff, Houghton Mifflin, $24 - The Open Road
Pico Iyer, Knopf, $24 - The Art of Simple Food
Alice Waters, Patricia Curtan (Illus.), Clarkson Potter, $35 - Girls Like Us
Sheila Weller, Atria, $27.95
Trade Paperback Fiction
- Divisadero
Michael Ondaatje, Vintage, $13.95 - The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Michael Chabon, Harper Perennial, $15.95 - Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $13.95 - Out Stealing Horses
Per Petterson, Picador, $14 - Ten Days in the Hills
Jane Smiley, Anchor, $14.95 - The Gathering
Anne Enright, Black Cat, $14 - Loving Frank
Nancy Horan, Ballantine, $14 - The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kate Jacobs, Berkley, $14 - The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $12.95 - Suite Francaise
Irene Nemirovsky, Vintage, $14.95 - After Dark
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $13.95 - Christine Falls
Benjamin Black, Picador, $14 - What Is the What
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $15.95 - Peony in Love
Lisa See, Random House, $14 - Free Food for Millionaires
Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $13.99
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
- A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle, Plume, $14 - Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $15 - Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $15 - The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle, New World, $14 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, Harper Perennial, $14.95 - The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $16 - Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Free Press, $15 - Dreams From My Father
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95 - Little Heathens
Mildred Armstrong Kalish, Bantam, $12 - The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95 - I Was Told There’d Be Cake
Sloane Crosley, Riverhead, $14 - Marley & Me
John Grogan, Harper, $13.95 - The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins, Mariner, $15.95 - Porn for New Moms
Cambridge Women’s Pornography Co-op (Eds.), Chronicle, $12.95 - The Assault on Reason
Al Gore, Penguin, $16
Mass Market
- Suffer the Little Children
Donna Leon, Penguin, $7.99 - Bad Luck and Trouble
Lee Child, Dell, $7.99 - The Woods
Harlan Coben, Signet, $9.99 - Invisible Prey
John Sandford, Berkley, $9.99 - Up in Honey’s Room
Elmore Leonard, Harper, $9.99 - Simple Genius
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $9.99 - Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Betrayal
Eric Van Lustbader, Vision, $9.99 - High Profile
Robert B. Parker, Berkley, $9.99 - The Innocent Man
John Grisham, Dell, $7.99 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Warner, $6.99
Children’s Titles
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95 - Twilight
Stephenie Meyer, Megan Tingley, $9.99 - The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart, Little Brown, $6.99 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95 - The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
Jeanne Birdsall, Knopf, $15.99 - Outcast (Warriors: Power of Three, Book 3)
Erin Hunter, Harper, $16.99 - The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $11.99 - Gallop!
Rufus Butler Seder, Workman, $12.95 - The Penderwicks
Jeanne Birdsall, Yearling, $6.50 - New Moon
Stephenie Meyer, Megan Tingley, $19.99 - Tweak
Nic Sheff, Ginee Seo, $16.99 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99 - Alphabet
Matthew Van Fleet, S&S, $19.99 - Fancy Nancy’s Favorite Fancy Words
Jane O’Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper, $12.99 - Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3)
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown, $19.99
The NCIBA bestseller list is compiled and distributed by Book Sense and the NCIBA from sales figures provided by over 50 member stores across the region. The NCIBA bestseller list is posted in 70 independent bookstores throughout the region.
