The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the
sales week ended Sunday, April 24.
The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, April 24. 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. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer
5. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Ya-Yas in Bloom, by Rebecca Wells
7. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
8. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
9. With No One as Witness, by Elizabeth George
10. Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami
Top 10 Hardcover Nonfiction
1. My Life So Far, by Jane Fonda
2. Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
3. The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman
4. Plan B, by Anne Lamott
5. On Bulls—, by Harry G. Frankfurt
6. Searching for the Sound, by Phil Lesh
7. Garlic and Sapphires, by Ruth Reichl
8. Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
9. Collapse, by Jared Diamond
10. French Women Don’t Get Fat, by Mireille Guiliano
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 Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
4. The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
5. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
6. The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
7. The Birth of Venus, by Sarah Dunant
8. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
9. The Master, by Colm Toibin
10. 1906, by James Dalessandro,
Top 10 Paperback Nonfiction
1. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, by Mark Bittner
2. Don’t Think of an Elephant, by George Lakoff
3. What’s the Matter with Kansas?, by Thomas Frank
4. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
5. Bad Cat, by Jim Edgar
6. Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
7. Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
8. The Bookseller of Kabul, by Asne Seierstad
9. Skeletons on the Zahara, by Dean King
10. The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
Top 10 Children’s (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, Book 4), by Eoin Colfer
2. Dragonology Handbook: A Practical Course in Dragons, by Ernest Drake
3. Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
4. Runny Babbit, by Shel Silverstein
5. Girls in Pants, by Ann Brashares
6. Nobody Does It Better (Gossip Girl #7), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
7. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (The Visual Dictionary), by James Luceno
8. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, by Ann Brashares
9. This Is San Francisco, by M. Sasek
10. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares
