The following are the bestselling books at Southern California
Booksellers Association stores during the week ended Sunday, November
6, as reported to Book Sense:
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Camel Club by David Baldacci (Warner, $26.95, 0446577383)
2. Christ the Lord by Anne Rice (Knopf, $25.95, 0375412018)
3. Predator by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam, $26.95, 0399152830)
4. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $26.95, 0060548932)
5. Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (Putnam, $26.95, 0399153012)
6. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26.95, 0316734934)
7. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Knopf, $20, 140004460X)
8. Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan (Tor, $29.95, 0312873077)
9. Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow (FSG, $25, 0374184216)
10. A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte, $28, 0385324162)
11. The March by E. L. Doctorow (Random House, $25.95, 0375506713)
12. The Sea by John Banville (Knopf, $23, 0307263118)
13. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200637)
14. The Trouble With Poetry by Billy Collins (Random House, $22.95, 037550382X)
15. The Scorpion's Gate by Richard A. Clarke (Putnam, $24.95, 0399152946)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X)
2. The Truth (With Jokes) by Al Franken (Dutton, $25.95, 0525949062)
3. Healthy Aging by Andrew Weil (Knopf, $27.95, 0375407553)
4. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S&S, $35, 0684824906)
5. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
6. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200580)
7. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
8. Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter (S&S, $25, 0743284577)
9. The Elements of Style Illustrated by William Strunk et al. (Penguin Press, $24.95, 1594200696)
10. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
11. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Dutton, $24.95, 0525948023)
12. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Seven Stories, $23.95, 158322713X)
13. 700 Sundays by Billy Crystal (Warner, $21.95, 0446578673)
14. Tab Hunter Confidential by Tab Hunter (Algonquin, $24.95, 1565124669)
15. Dean and Me by Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan (Doubleday, $26.95, 0767920864)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
2. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $15, 0060987103)
3. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707)
4. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Vintage, $14.95, 1400079497)
5. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Bloomsbury, $14.95, 1582346100)
6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
7. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Vintage, $14.95, 0679781587)
8. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14, 0142001740)
9. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
10. Shopgirl by Steve Martin (Hyperion, $11.95, 1401308279)
11. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559)
12. Night Game by Christine Feehan (Jove, $9.99, 0515139769)
13. Dark Watch by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul (Berkley, $16, 0425205592)
14. The Chronicles of Narnia (movie tie-in adult) by C. S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $19.99, 0060765453)
15. How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers (Vintage, $13, 1400095565)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (Anchor, $14.95, 0307276902)
2. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Vintage, $14, 0679745580)
3. Chronicles by Bob Dylan (S&S, $14, 0743244583)
4. Bad Dog by R. D. Rosen et al. (Workman, $9.95, 0761139834)
5. Zagat Los Angeles/Southern California Restaurants (Zagat Survey, $13.95, 1570067422)
6. Sudoku Easy, Volume 1 by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355025)
7. Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner et al. (Three Rivers, $12.95, 1400082315)
8. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624)
9. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
10. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 0761136193)
11. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2006 edited by Ken Park (World Almanac, $12.95, 0886879647)
12. Su Doku for Dummies by Andrew Heron and Edmund James (Wiley, $9.99, 0470018925)
13. Why I Write by George Orwell (Penguin, $8.95, 0143036351)
14. Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff (Chelsea Green, $10, 1931498717)
15. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn (Norton, $13.95, 0393329402)
Mass Market
1. State of Fear by Michael Crichton (Avon, $7.99, 0061015733)
2. The Winds of Change by Martha Grimes (Signet, $7.99, 0451216962)
3. Jarhead by Anthony Swofford (Pocket, $7.99, 141651340X)
4. London Bridges by James Patterson (Warner, $7.99, 0446613355)
5. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
6. Whiteout by Ken Follett (Signet, $7.99, 0451215710)
7. Hour Game by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 0446616494)
8. Life Expectancy by Dean R. Koontz (Bantam, $7.99, 0553588249)
9. Night Fall by Nelson DeMille (Warner, $7.99, 0446616621)
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. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (movie tie-in, children's) by C. S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0060765461)
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
5. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
6. Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black (S&S, $24.95, 0689859414)
7. Junie B., First Grader: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May) by Barbara Park, illustrated by Denise Brunkus (Random House, $11.95, 0375828087)
8. Napoleon Dynamite: The Complete Quote Book (Simon Spotlight, $7.95, 1416913912)
9. Dragonology by Ernest Drake, illustrated by Helen Ward and Douglas Carrel (Candlewick, $19.99, 0763623296)
10. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House, $19.99, 0439554004)
11. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $8.95, 0375829164)
12. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
13. Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth (Scholastic, $16.95, 0439339111)
14. Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (Laurel-Leaf, $6.50, 0553272586)
15. The Chronicles of Narnia (Boxed set) by C. S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $19.99, 0066238501)
[Many thanks to Book Sense and the SCBA!]
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Camel Club by David Baldacci (Warner, $26.95, 0446577383)
2. Christ the Lord by Anne Rice (Knopf, $25.95, 0375412018)
3. Predator by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam, $26.95, 0399152830)
4. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $26.95, 0060548932)
5. Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (Putnam, $26.95, 0399153012)
6. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26.95, 0316734934)
7. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Knopf, $20, 140004460X)
8. Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan (Tor, $29.95, 0312873077)
9. Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow (FSG, $25, 0374184216)
10. A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte, $28, 0385324162)
11. The March by E. L. Doctorow (Random House, $25.95, 0375506713)
12. The Sea by John Banville (Knopf, $23, 0307263118)
13. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200637)
14. The Trouble With Poetry by Billy Collins (Random House, $22.95, 037550382X)
15. The Scorpion's Gate by Richard A. Clarke (Putnam, $24.95, 0399152946)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X)
2. The Truth (With Jokes) by Al Franken (Dutton, $25.95, 0525949062)
3. Healthy Aging by Andrew Weil (Knopf, $27.95, 0375407553)
4. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S&S, $35, 0684824906)
5. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
6. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200580)
7. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
8. Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter (S&S, $25, 0743284577)
9. The Elements of Style Illustrated by William Strunk et al. (Penguin Press, $24.95, 1594200696)
10. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
11. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Dutton, $24.95, 0525948023)
12. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Seven Stories, $23.95, 158322713X)
13. 700 Sundays by Billy Crystal (Warner, $21.95, 0446578673)
14. Tab Hunter Confidential by Tab Hunter (Algonquin, $24.95, 1565124669)
15. Dean and Me by Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan (Doubleday, $26.95, 0767920864)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
2. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $15, 0060987103)
3. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707)
4. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Vintage, $14.95, 1400079497)
5. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Bloomsbury, $14.95, 1582346100)
6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
7. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Vintage, $14.95, 0679781587)
8. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14, 0142001740)
9. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
10. Shopgirl by Steve Martin (Hyperion, $11.95, 1401308279)
11. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559)
12. Night Game by Christine Feehan (Jove, $9.99, 0515139769)
13. Dark Watch by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul (Berkley, $16, 0425205592)
14. The Chronicles of Narnia (movie tie-in adult) by C. S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $19.99, 0060765453)
15. How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers (Vintage, $13, 1400095565)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (Anchor, $14.95, 0307276902)
2. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Vintage, $14, 0679745580)
3. Chronicles by Bob Dylan (S&S, $14, 0743244583)
4. Bad Dog by R. D. Rosen et al. (Workman, $9.95, 0761139834)
5. Zagat Los Angeles/Southern California Restaurants (Zagat Survey, $13.95, 1570067422)
6. Sudoku Easy, Volume 1 by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355025)
7. Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner et al. (Three Rivers, $12.95, 1400082315)
8. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624)
9. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
10. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 0761136193)
11. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2006 edited by Ken Park (World Almanac, $12.95, 0886879647)
12. Su Doku for Dummies by Andrew Heron and Edmund James (Wiley, $9.99, 0470018925)
13. Why I Write by George Orwell (Penguin, $8.95, 0143036351)
14. Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff (Chelsea Green, $10, 1931498717)
15. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn (Norton, $13.95, 0393329402)
Mass Market
1. State of Fear by Michael Crichton (Avon, $7.99, 0061015733)
2. The Winds of Change by Martha Grimes (Signet, $7.99, 0451216962)
3. Jarhead by Anthony Swofford (Pocket, $7.99, 141651340X)
4. London Bridges by James Patterson (Warner, $7.99, 0446613355)
5. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
6. Whiteout by Ken Follett (Signet, $7.99, 0451215710)
7. Hour Game by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 0446616494)
8. Life Expectancy by Dean R. Koontz (Bantam, $7.99, 0553588249)
9. Night Fall by Nelson DeMille (Warner, $7.99, 0446616621)
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. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (movie tie-in, children's) by C. S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0060765461)
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
5. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
6. Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black (S&S, $24.95, 0689859414)
7. Junie B., First Grader: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May) by Barbara Park, illustrated by Denise Brunkus (Random House, $11.95, 0375828087)
8. Napoleon Dynamite: The Complete Quote Book (Simon Spotlight, $7.95, 1416913912)
9. Dragonology by Ernest Drake, illustrated by Helen Ward and Douglas Carrel (Candlewick, $19.99, 0763623296)
10. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House, $19.99, 0439554004)
11. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $8.95, 0375829164)
12. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
13. Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth (Scholastic, $16.95, 0439339111)
14. Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (Laurel-Leaf, $6.50, 0553272586)
15. The Chronicles of Narnia (Boxed set) by C. S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $19.99, 0066238501)
[Many thanks to Book Sense and the SCBA!]