The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the
sales week ended Sunday, May 8.
The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, May 8. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association and Book Sense.
Top 10 Hardcover Fiction
1. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, by Alexander McCall Smith
2. The Mermaid Chair, by Sue Monk Kidd
3. Saturday, by Ian McEwan
4. Zorro, by Isabel Allende
5. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
7. Ya-Yas in Bloom, by Rebecca Wells
8. Haunted, by Chuck Palahniuk
9. 4th of July, by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
10. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
Top 10 Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman
2. My Life So Far, by Jane Fonda
3. Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
4. Plan B, by Anne Lamott
5. Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
6. Garlic and Sapphires, by Ruth Reichl
7. On Bulls—, by Harry G. Frankfurt
8. Collapse, by Jared Diamond
9. You: The Owner’s Manual, by Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet Oz, M.D.
10. French Women Don’t Get Fat, by Mireille Guiliano
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 Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
6. The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
7. The Penultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
8. The Birth of Venus, by Sarah Dunant
9. The Master, by Colm Toibin
10. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith
Top 10 Paperback Nonfiction
1. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, by Mark Bittner
2. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
3. Don’t Think of an Elephant, by George Lakoff
4. What’s the Matter With Kansas? by Thomas Frank
5. Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
6. Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
7. Truth & Beauty, by Ann Patchett
8. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Jack Weatherford
9. Bad Cat, by Jim Edgar
10. The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
Top 10 Children’s (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
2. The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, Book 4), by Eoin Colfer
3. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (The Visual Dictionary), by James Luceno
4. Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
5. Dragonology Handbook, by Ernest Drake
6. Dragonology, by Ernest Drake, Helen Ward (Illus.), Douglas Carrel (Illus.)
7. Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke
8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares
9. Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
10. Nobody Does It Better (Gossip Girl #7), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
