The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the
sales week ended Sunday, May 22. Based on reporting from the
independent booksellers of the NCIBA and Book Sense.
The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, May 22. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the NCIBA and Book Sense.
Top 10 Hardcover Fiction
1. Zorro, by Isabel Allende
2. The Closers, by Michael Connelly
3. The Mermaid Chair, by Sue Monk Kidd
4. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, by Alexander McCall Smith
5. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
6. Saturday, by Ian McEwan
7. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
8. Haunted, by Chuck Palahniuk
9. The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
10. Bangkok Tattoo, by John Burdett
Top 10 Hardcover Nonfiction
1. On Bulls—, by Harry G. Frankfurt
2. French Women Don’t Get Fat, by Mireille Guiliano
3. Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
4. The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman
5. Oh the Glory of It All, by Sean Wilsey
6. Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
7. You: The Owner’s Manual, by Michael F. Roizen, et al.
8. Plan B, by Anne Lamott
9. My Life So Far, by Jane Fonda
10. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell
Top 10 Paperback Fiction
1. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
2. The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
4. The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
5. The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
6. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
7. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
8. The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
9. The Master, by Colm Toibin
10. War Trash, by Ha Jin
Top 10 Paperback Nonfiction
1. What’s the Matter With Kansas? by Thomas Frank
2. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
3. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, by Mark Bittner
4. Don’t Think of an Elephant, by George Lakoff
5. Bad Cat, by Jim Edgar
6. Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
7. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Jack Weatherford
8. The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
9. San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants, by Zagat Survey (Eds.)
10. The Hidden Messages in Water, by Masaru Emoto
Top 10 Children’s (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Movie Tie-in), by Ann Brashares
2. The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, Book 4), by Eoin Colfer
3. Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
4. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (The Visual Dictionary), by James Luceno
5. Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
6. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, by Ann Brashares
7. Dragonology Handbook, by Ernest Drake
8. Runny Babbit, by Shel Silverstein
9. Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke
10. Revenge of the Sith (Star Wars, Episode 3 Junior Novel), by Patricia C. Wrede
