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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
- Inferno
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $29.95 - A Delicate Truth
John le Carré, Viking, $28.95 - The Woman Upstairs
Claire Messud, Knopf, $25.95 - Maya’s Notebook
Isabel Allende, Harper, $27.99 - Life After Life
Kate Atkinson, Reagan Arthur Books, $27.99 - Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25 - Little Green
Walter Mosley, Doubleday, $25.95 - The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker, Harper, $26.99 - Z
Therese Anne Fowler, St. Martin’s, $25.99 - A Dance With Dragons
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $35 - The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer, Riverhead, $27.95 - All That Is
James Salter, Knopf, $26.95 - Dead Ever After
Charlaine Harris, Ace, $27.95 - Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $26.95 - The Flamethrowers
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $26.99
Hardcover Nonfiction
- Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls
David Sedaris, Little Brown, $27 - Cooked
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $27.95 - Lean In
Sheryl Sandberg, Knopf, $24.95 - Vader’s Little Princess
Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, $14.95 - The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
Rick Atkinson, Holt, $40 - Gulp
Mary Roach, Norton, $26.95 - I Could Pee on This
Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle, $12.95 - It’s All Good
Gwyneth Paltrow, Grand Central, $32 - The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
Paul Theroux, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 - My Beloved World
Sonia Sotomayor, Knopf, $27.95 - Darth Vader and Son
Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, $14.95 - Who Owns the Future?
Jaron Lanier, S&S, $28 - VB6
Mark Bittman, Clarkson Potter, $26 - The Drunken Botanist
Amy Stewart, Algonquin, $19.95 - The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Christopher Clark, Harper, $29.99
Trade Paperback Fiction
- The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $15 - Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99 - The Orphan Master’s Son
Adam Johnson, Random House, $15 - Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple, Back Bay, $14.99 - Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel, Picador USA, $16 - The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Ballantine, $15 - Broken Harbor
Tana French, Penguin, $16 - Istanbul Passage
Joseph Kanon, Washington Square Press, $16 - The Black Box
Michael Connelly, Grand Central, $14.99 - The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15 - The Yellow Birds
Kevin Powers, Back Bay, $14.99 - World War Z
Max Brooks, Three Rivers, $14.95 - Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16 - Phantom
Jo Nesbø, Vintage, $14.95 - The Orchardist
Amanda Coplin, Harper Perennial, $15.99
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
- Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95 - Proof of Heaven
Eben Alexander, M.D., S&S, $15.99 - Season of the Witch
David Talbot, Free Press, $16 - Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, FSG, $16 - Quiet
Susan Cain, Broadway, $16 - God’s Hotel
Victoria Sweet, Riverhead, $16 - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns)
Mindy Kaling, Three Rivers, $14 - Why Does the World Exist?
Jim Holt, Liveright Publishing Corporation, $16.95 - Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
Jenny Lawson, Berkley, $16 - Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Anna Quindlen, Random House, $15 - F in Exams
Richard Benson, Chronicle, $9.95 - Subliminal
Leonard Mlodinow, Vintage Books, $15 - Zagat 2013 San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants
Zagat Survey, $15.95 - Unlikely Friendships
Jennifer Holland, Workman, $13.95 - The First 20 Minutes
Gretchen Reynolds, Plume, $16
Mass Market
- A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99 - Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $6.99 - A Feast for Crows
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99 - A Clash of Kings
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99 - Defending Jacob
William Landay, Dell, $7.99 - A Storm of Swords
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Warner, $6.99 - The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99 - The Wise Man’s Fear
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99
Children’s Titles
- Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $17.99 - The Fault in Our Stars
John Green, Dutton, $17.99 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99 - The 5th Wave
Rick Yancey, Putnam, $18.99 - Steam Train, Dream Train
Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld (Illus.), Chronicle, $16.99 - The Dark
Lemony Snicket, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Little Brown, $16.99 - Good Night San Francisco
Adam Gamble, Santiago Cohen (Illus.), Our World of Books, $9.95 - Ivy and Bean
Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall, Chronicle, $5.99 - Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein, Hyperion, $9.99 - I Want My Hat Back
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $15.99 - Poems to Learn by Heart
Caroline Kennedy, Jon J Muth (Illus.), Hyperion, $19.99 - Divergent
Veronica Roth, Katherine Tegen Books, $9.99 - The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $16.99 - Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Stephan Pastis, Candlewick, $14.99 - 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.
