The following are the bestselling titles during the week ended Sunday,
October 23, at Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
stores and reported to Book Sense.
Hardcover Fiction
1. Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (Putnam, $26.95, 0399153012)
2. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200637)
3. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $26.95, 0060548932)
4. Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan (Tor, $29.95, 0312873077)
5. The March by E. L. Doctorow (Random House, $25.95, 0375506713)
6. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26.95, 0316734934)
7. A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte, $28, 0385324162)
8. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (Morrow, $26.95, 006051518X)
9. Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley (Little, Brown, $24.95, 0316073024)
10. Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie (Random House, $25.95, 0679463356)
11. The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060515104)
12. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $21.95, 0375422994)
13. A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316738999)
14. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316011770)
15. Consent to Kill by Vince Flynn (Atria, $25.95, 0743270363)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester (HarperCollins, $27.95, 0060571993)
2. Healthy Aging by Andrew Weil (Knopf, $27.95, 0375407553)
3. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
4. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X)
5. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200580)
6. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
7. Spook by Mary Roach (Norton, $24.95, 0393059626)
8. Mao by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (Knopf, $35, 0679422714)
9. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
10. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Dutton, $24.95, 0525948023)
11. What Remains by Carole Radziwill (Scribner, $25.95, 0743276949)
12. Don't Try This at Home edited by Kimberly Witherspoon (Bloomsbury, $24.95, 1596910704)
13. California by Kevin Starr (Modern Library, $24.95, 0679642404)
14. The Universe in a Single Atom by the Dalai Lama (Random House, $24.95, 076792066X)
15. The Assassins' Gate by George Packer (FSG, $26, 0374299633)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
2. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860)
3. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $15, 0060987103)
4. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Vintage, $14.95, 1400079497)
5. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
6. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Bloomsbury, $14.95, 1582346100)
7. How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers (Vintage, $13, 1400095565)
8. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury, $15.95, 1582346038)
9. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707)
10. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559)
11. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14, 015602943X)
12. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
13. I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe (Picador, $15, 0312424442)
14. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (Perennial, $13.95, 0060529709)
15. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 0743454537)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (Anchor, $14.95, 0307276902)
2. Chronicles by Bob Dylan (S&S, $14, 0743244583)
3. Zagat San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants (Zagat Survey, $13.95, 1570067384)
4. The End of Faith by Sam Harris (Norton, $13.95, 0393327655)
5. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624)
6. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
7. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Vintage, $14, 0679745580)
8. The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers, $14, 1400098343)
9. Bad Dog by R. D. Rosen et al. (Workman, $9.95, 0761139834)
10. Imperial Ambitions by Noam Chomsky (Metropolitan, $15, 080507967X)
11. Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner et al. (Three Rivers, $12.95, 1400082315)
12. Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs (Picador, $14, 0312315953)
13. People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (HarperCollins, $18.95, 0060838655)
14. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 0761136193)
15. When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin (Hyperion, $13.95, 140130821X)
Mass Market
1. Dressed for Death by Donna Leon (Penguin, $7.99, 0143035843)
2. The Constant Gardener by John le Carre (Pocket, $7.99, 1416503900)
3. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (HarperTorch, $7.99, 0060502932)
4. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
5. London Bridges by James Patterson (Warner, $7.99, 0446613355)
6. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Dell, $7.99, 0440241359)
7. Twisted by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine, $7.99, 0345465261)
8. Hour Game by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 0446616494)
9. Good Morning, Midnight by Reginald Hill (Avon, $7.99, 0060528087)
10. The Colorado Kid by Stephen King (Hard Case Crime, $5.99, 0843955848)
Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12) by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist (HarperCollins, $11.99, 0064410153)
2. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
3. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House, $19.99, 0439554004)
4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
6. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
7. High Rhulain (Redwall #18) by Brian Jacques, illustrated by David Elliot (Philomel, $23.99, 0399242082)
8. Dragonology by Ernest Drake, illustrated by Helen Ward and Douglas Carrel (Candlewick, $19.99, 0763623296)
9. A Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy, illustrated by Jon J. Muth (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786851112)
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $8.99, 0439139600)
11. Flush by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $16.95, 0375821821)
12. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (children's movie tie-in edition) by C. S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0060765461)
13. Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Puffin, $6.99, 0142501123)
14. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $9.99, 0439358078)
15. One Witch by Laura Leuck (Walker, $6.95, 0802777295
Hardcover Fiction
1. Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (Putnam, $26.95, 0399153012)
2. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200637)
3. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $26.95, 0060548932)
4. Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan (Tor, $29.95, 0312873077)
5. The March by E. L. Doctorow (Random House, $25.95, 0375506713)
6. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26.95, 0316734934)
7. A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte, $28, 0385324162)
8. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (Morrow, $26.95, 006051518X)
9. Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley (Little, Brown, $24.95, 0316073024)
10. Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie (Random House, $25.95, 0679463356)
11. The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060515104)
12. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $21.95, 0375422994)
13. A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316738999)
14. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316011770)
15. Consent to Kill by Vince Flynn (Atria, $25.95, 0743270363)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester (HarperCollins, $27.95, 0060571993)
2. Healthy Aging by Andrew Weil (Knopf, $27.95, 0375407553)
3. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
4. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X)
5. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200580)
6. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
7. Spook by Mary Roach (Norton, $24.95, 0393059626)
8. Mao by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (Knopf, $35, 0679422714)
9. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
10. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Dutton, $24.95, 0525948023)
11. What Remains by Carole Radziwill (Scribner, $25.95, 0743276949)
12. Don't Try This at Home edited by Kimberly Witherspoon (Bloomsbury, $24.95, 1596910704)
13. California by Kevin Starr (Modern Library, $24.95, 0679642404)
14. The Universe in a Single Atom by the Dalai Lama (Random House, $24.95, 076792066X)
15. The Assassins' Gate by George Packer (FSG, $26, 0374299633)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
2. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860)
3. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $15, 0060987103)
4. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Vintage, $14.95, 1400079497)
5. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
6. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Bloomsbury, $14.95, 1582346100)
7. How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers (Vintage, $13, 1400095565)
8. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury, $15.95, 1582346038)
9. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707)
10. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559)
11. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14, 015602943X)
12. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
13. I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe (Picador, $15, 0312424442)
14. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (Perennial, $13.95, 0060529709)
15. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 0743454537)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (Anchor, $14.95, 0307276902)
2. Chronicles by Bob Dylan (S&S, $14, 0743244583)
3. Zagat San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants (Zagat Survey, $13.95, 1570067384)
4. The End of Faith by Sam Harris (Norton, $13.95, 0393327655)
5. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624)
6. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
7. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Vintage, $14, 0679745580)
8. The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers, $14, 1400098343)
9. Bad Dog by R. D. Rosen et al. (Workman, $9.95, 0761139834)
10. Imperial Ambitions by Noam Chomsky (Metropolitan, $15, 080507967X)
11. Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner et al. (Three Rivers, $12.95, 1400082315)
12. Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs (Picador, $14, 0312315953)
13. People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (HarperCollins, $18.95, 0060838655)
14. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 0761136193)
15. When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin (Hyperion, $13.95, 140130821X)
Mass Market
1. Dressed for Death by Donna Leon (Penguin, $7.99, 0143035843)
2. The Constant Gardener by John le Carre (Pocket, $7.99, 1416503900)
3. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (HarperTorch, $7.99, 0060502932)
4. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
5. London Bridges by James Patterson (Warner, $7.99, 0446613355)
6. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Dell, $7.99, 0440241359)
7. Twisted by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine, $7.99, 0345465261)
8. Hour Game by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 0446616494)
9. Good Morning, Midnight by Reginald Hill (Avon, $7.99, 0060528087)
10. The Colorado Kid by Stephen King (Hard Case Crime, $5.99, 0843955848)
Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12) by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist (HarperCollins, $11.99, 0064410153)
2. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
3. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House, $19.99, 0439554004)
4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
6. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
7. High Rhulain (Redwall #18) by Brian Jacques, illustrated by David Elliot (Philomel, $23.99, 0399242082)
8. Dragonology by Ernest Drake, illustrated by Helen Ward and Douglas Carrel (Candlewick, $19.99, 0763623296)
9. A Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy, illustrated by Jon J. Muth (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786851112)
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $8.99, 0439139600)
11. Flush by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $16.95, 0375821821)
12. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (children's movie tie-in edition) by C. S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0060765461)
13. Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Puffin, $6.99, 0142501123)
14. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $9.99, 0439358078)
15. One Witch by Laura Leuck (Walker, $6.95, 0802777295