The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the
sales week ended Sunday, April 10.
The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, April 10. 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. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
7. With No One as Witness, by Elizabeth George
8. Revenge of the Sith (Star Wars), by Matthew Woodring Stover
9. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
10. A Changed Man, by Francine Prose
Top 10 Hardcover Nonfiction
1. My Life So Far, by Jane Fonda
2. The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman
3. Plan B, by Anne Lamott
4. Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
5. On Bulls—, by Harry G. Frankfurt
6. French Women Don’t Get Fat, by Mireille Guiliano
7. Collapse, by Jared Diamond
8. Winning, by Jack Welch, with Suzy Welch
9. The Purpose-Driven Life, by Rick Warren
10. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins
Top 10 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 Birth of Venus, by Sarah Dunant
4. The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
5. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
6. The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
7. The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
8. The Known World, by Edward P. Jones
9. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
10. The Full Cupboard of Life, by Alexander McCall Smith
Top 10 Paperback Nonfiction
1. Don’t Think of an Elephant, by George Lakoff
2. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, by Mark Bittner
3. Bad Cat, by Jim Edgar
4. Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
5. The Hidden Messages in Water, by Masaru Emoto
6. Truth & Beauty, by Ann Patchett
7. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Jack Weatherford
8. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
9. The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
10. The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle
Top 10 Children’s Fiction
and Illustrated
1. Runny Babbit, by Shel Silverstein
2. The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, Book 4), by Eoin Colfer
3. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares
4. Girls in Pants, by Ann Brashares
5. Carnival at Candlelight (Magic Treehouse #33), by Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.)
6. Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
7. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, by Ann Brashares
8. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary, by DK (Eds.)
9. This Is San Francisco, by M. Sasek
10. Princess in Training (The Princess Diaries, Volume VI), by Meg Cabot
