The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the
sales week ended Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004
The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association and Book Sense.
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth.
2. I Am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe,
3. The Final Solution, by Michael Chabon.
4. Runaway, by Alice Munro
5. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown.
6. Wolves Eat Dogs, by Martin Cruz Smith
7. The Sunday Philosophy Club, by Alexander McCall Smith
8. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
9. How We Are Hungry, by Dave Eggers
10. The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst
Hardover Nonfiction
1. America (The Book) by Jon Stewart and The Daily Show Staff
2. Chronicles, by Bob Dylan, S&S, $24, 0743228154
3. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss
4. He’s Just Not That Into You, by Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo
5. Will in the World, by Stephen Greenblatt
6. What’s the Matter With Kansas?, by Thomas Frank
7. His Excellency, by Joseph J. Ellis
8. When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin
9. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, by David Sedaris
10. In the Shadow of No Towers, by Art Spiegelman
Children’s fiction
and Illustrated
1. The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg,
2. The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events No. 11) by Lemony Snicket
3. Dragon Rider, by Cornelia Funke
4. Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown
5. The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events No. 3) by Lemony Snicket
6. This Is San Francisco, by Miroslav Sasek
7. Peter and the Starcatchers, by Dave Barry
8. Winter of the Ice Wizard (Magic Tree House No. 32) by Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.)
9. America the Beautiful, by Robert Sabuda
10. Chasing Vermeer, by Blue Balliett, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
