The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and NCIBA, for the
sales week ended Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004. 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, Oct. 31, 2004. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association and Book Sense.
Top 10
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Plot Against America
Philip Roth, Houghton
Mifflin, $26
2. The Sunday Philosophy Club
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $19.95
3. Jonathan
Strange & Mr. Norrell
Susanna Clarke,
Bloomsbury, $27.95
4. The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $24.95
5. The Stupidest Angel
Christopher Moore,
William Morrow, $14.95
6. Hour Game
David Baldacci, Warner, $26.95
7. The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst,
Bloomsbury, $24.95
8. The System of the World
Neal Stephenson,
William Morrow, $27.95
9. Snow
Orhan Pamuk, Knopf, $26
10. The Unthinkable
Thoughts of Jacob Green
Joshua Braff,
Algonquin, $22.95
Top 10
Hardcover Non-fiction
1. America (The Book)
Jon Stewart and The Daily Show Staff, Warner, $24.95
2. Chronicles
Bob Dylan, S&S, $24
3. He’s Just Not That Into You
Greg Behrendt,
Liz Tuccillo, S&S, $19.95
4. Will in the World
Stephen Greenblatt,
Norton, $26.95
5. The South Beach Diet
Arthur Agatston, M.D., Rodale, $24.95
6. When Will Jesus
Bring the Pork Chops?
George Carlin,
Hyperion, $23.95
7. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Lynne Truss, Gotham, $17.50
8. In the
Shadow of No Towers
Art Spiegelman,
Pantheon, $19.95
9. Hallelujah!
The Welcome Table
Maya Angelou,
Random House, $29.95
10. Barefoot in Paris
Ina Garten,
Clarkson Potter, $35
Top 5
Mass Market
1. Angels & Demons
Dan Brown, Pocket, $7.99
2. The Sinister Pig
Tony Hillerman,
HarperTorch, $7.99
3. Pompeii
Robert Harris, Fawcett, $7.99
4. Deception Point
Dan Brown, Pocket, $7.99
5. Blow Fly
Patricia Cornwell,
Berkley, $7.99
Top 10
Children’s Fiction and Illustrated
1. The Grim Grotto (A Series
of Unfortunate Events #11)
Lemony Snicket,
HarperCollins, $11.99
2. The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg,
Houghton Mifflin, $18.95
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise
Brown, Clement Hurd
(Illus.), HarperCollins, $7.99
4. Dragon Rider
Cornelia Funke,
Chicken House, $12.95
5. America the Beautiful
Robert Sabuda,
Little Simon, $26.95
