The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the
sales week ended Sunday, April 17
The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, April 17. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association and Book Sense.
Top 10 Hardcover Fiction
1. The Mermaid Chair, by Sue Monk Kidd
2. Saturday, by Ian McEwan, Nan A. Talese
3. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
4. Ya-Yas in Bloom, by Rebecca Wells
5. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,
by Jonathan Safran Foer
6. With No One as Witness, by Elizabeth George
7. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
8. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
9. A Stroke of Midnight, by Laurell K. Hamilton
10. Prep, by Curtis Sittenfeld
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman
2. My Life So Far, by Jane Fonda
3. Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
4. Plan B, by Anne Lamott
5. Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
6. On Bulls—, by Harry G. Frankfurt
7. And One More Thing Before You Go …, by Maria Shriver
8. Winning, by Jack Welch, with Suzy Welch
9. French Women Don’t Get Fat, by Mireille Guiliano
10. Collapse, by Jared Diamond
Paperback Fiction
1. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
3. The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
4. The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
5. Good Grief, by Lolly Winston
6. The Birth of Venus, by Sarah Dunant
7. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
8. The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
9. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
10. The Known World, by Edward P. Jones
Paperback Nonfiction
1. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
2. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, by Mark Bittner
3. Don’t Think of an Elephant, by George Lakoff
4. Truth & Beauty, by Ann Patchett
5. Bad Cat, by Jim Edgar
6. The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
7. Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
8. San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants, by Zagat Survey (Eds.)
9. Skeletons on the Zahara, by Dean King
10. The Hidden Messages in Water, by Masaru Emoto
Children’s (Fiction
and Illustrated)
1. The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, Book 4), by Eoin Colfer
2. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (The Visual Dictionary), by James Luceno
3. Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
4. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares
5. Runny Babbit, by Shel Silverstein
6. Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
7. Dragonology Handbook, by Ernest Drake
8. This Is San Francisco, by M. Sasek
9. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, by Ann Brashares
10.Girls in Pants, by Ann Brashares
