The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the
sales week ended Sunday, May 1.
The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, May 1. 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. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
5. Ya-Yas in Bloom, by Rebecca Wells
6. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
7. The Innocent, by Harlan Coben
8. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer
9. With No One as Witness, by Elizabeth George
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. Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
4. Plan B, by Anne Lamott
5. Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
6. French Women Don’t Get Fat, by Mireille Guiliano
7. Garlic and Sapphires, by Ruth Reichl
8. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell
9. On Bulls—, by Harry G. Frankfurt
10. Collapse, by Jared Diamond
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 Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
4. The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler
5. The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
6. The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
7. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
8. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
9. The Penultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
10. The Birth of Venus, by Sarah Dunant
Top 10 Paperback Nonfiction
1. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, by Mark Bittner
2. Bad Cat, by Jim Edgar
3. Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
4. Don’t Think of an Elephant, by George Lakoff
5. The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
6. Truth & Beauty, by Ann Patchett
7. The Hidden Messages in Water, by Masaru Emoto
8. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
9. Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
10. You Can Do It!, by Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas
Top 10 Children’s (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, Book 4), by Eoin Colfer
2. Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
3. Dragonology Handbook, by Ernest Drake
4. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares
5. Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
6. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (The Visual Dictionary), by James Luceno
7. Killers of the Dawn (Cirque Du Freak #9), by Darren Shan
8. This Is San Francisco, by M. Sasek
9. Girls in Pants, by Ann Brashares
10. Nobody Does It Better (Gossip Girl #7), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
