The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the
sales week ended Sunday, May 15. Based on reporting from the
independent booksellers of the Northern California Independent
Booksellers Association 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 15. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association and Book Sense.
Top 10 Hardcover Fiction
1. Zorro, by Isabel Allende
2. The Mermaid Chair, by Sue Monk Kidd
3. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, by Alexander McCall Smith
4. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
5.Saturday, by Ian McEwan
6.The Hot Kid, by Elmore Leonard
7. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
8. Bangkok Tattoo, by John Burdett
9. The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
10. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
Top 10 Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman
2. Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
3. Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
4. You: The Owner’s Manual, by Michael F. Roizen, M.D., Mehmet Oz, M.D.
5. On Bulls—, by Harry G. Frankfurt
6. Plan B, by Anne Lamott
7. My Life So Far, by Jane Fonda
8. Garlic and Sapphires, by Ruth Reichl
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 Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler
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. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
8. Good Grief, by Lolly Winston
9. The Master, by Colm Toibin
10. The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
Top 10 Paperback Nonfiction
1. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, by Mark Bittner
2. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
3. What’s the Matter With Kansas?, by Thomas Frank
4. Bad Cat, by Jim Edgar
5. The Hidden Messages in Water, by Masaru Emoto
6. Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
7. San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants, by Zagat Survey (Eds.)
8. The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
9. Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
10. Don’t Think of an Elephant, by George Lakoff
Top 10 Children’s Fiction and Illustrated
1. The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, Book 4), by Eoin Colfer
2. Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
3. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares
4. Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
5. Dragonology Handbook, by Ernest Drake
6. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (The Visual Dictionary), by James Luceno
7. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, by Ann Brashares
8. This Is San Francisco, by M. Sasek
9. Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke
10. Dragonology, by Ernest Drake, Helen Ward (Illus.), Douglas Carrel (Illus.)
