The following are the bestselling titles at Northern California
Independent Booksellers Association stores during the week ended
Sunday, January 8, as reported to Book Sense:
Hardcover Fiction
1. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Knopf, $20, 140004460X)
2. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton (Putnam, $26.95, 0399152970)
3. The Lighthouse by P.D. James (Knopf, $25.95, 030726291X)
4. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200637)
5. The March by E.L. Doctorow (Random House, $25.95, 0375506713)
6. Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (Putnam, $26.95, 0399153012)
7. Amazing Peace by Maya Angelou (Random House, $9.95, 1400065585)
8. The Sea by John Banville (Knopf, $23, 0307263118)
9. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95, 0385504209)
10. The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster (Holt, $24, 0805077146)
11. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (FSG, $23, 0374153892)
12. Veronica by Mary Gaitskill (Pantheon, $23, 0375421459)
13. Christ the Lord by Anne Rice (Knopf, $25.95, 0375412018)
14. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786868716)
15. The Trouble With Poetry by Billy Collins (Random House, $22.95, 037550382X)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X)
2. Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter (S&S, $25, 0743284577)
3. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
4. Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman (HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, 0060738170)
5. Healthy Aging by Andrew Weil (Knopf, $27.95, 0375407553)
6. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S&S, $35, 0684824906)
7. The Elements of Style Illustrated by William Strunk et al. (Penguin Press, $24.95, 1594200696)
8. My Friend Leonard by James Frey (Riverhead, $24.95, 1573223158)
9. Marley & Me by John Grogan (Morrow, $21.95, 0060817089)
10. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
11. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
12. Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (Scribner, $26, 0743243773)
13. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Seven Stories, $23.95, 158322713X)
14. Love Smart by Dr. Phil McGraw (Free Press, $26, 0743272099)
15. A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester (HarperCollins, $27.95, 0060571993)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
2. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (Scribner, $9.95, 0743271327)
3. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860)
4. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Vintage, $14.95, 0307275167)
5. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Vintage, $14.95, 1400079276)
6. Runaway by Alice Munro (Vintage, $14.95, 1400077915)
7. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (Regan Books, $15, 0060987103)
8. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
9. Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith (Pocket, $14, 0671775952)
10. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559)
11. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707)
12. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
13. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House, $13.95, 081297235X)
14. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Bloomsbury, $14.95, 1582346100)
15. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14, 015602943X)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (Anchor, $14.95, 0307276902)
2. Collapse by Jared Diamond (Penguin, $17, 0143036556)
3. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (Plume, $15, 0452287081)
4. Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson (Harvest, $15, 0156031442)
5. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Vintage, $14, 0679745580)
6. The End of Faith by Sam Harris (Norton, $13.95, 0393327655)
7. 365: No Repeats by Rachael Ray (Clarkson Potter, $19.95, 1400082544)
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. Chronicles by Bob Dylan (S&S, $14, 0743244583)
11. Zagat San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants (Zagat, $13.95, 1570067384)
12. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 0761136193)
13. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen, $12.95, 1878424319)
14. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95, 0393317552)
15. Bad Dog by R.D. Rosen et al. (Workman, $9.95, 0761139834)
Mass Market
1. The Broker by John Grisham (Dell, $7.99, 0440241588)
2. The Motive by John Lescroart (Signet, $7.99, 0451215729)
3. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
4. State of Fear by Michael Crichton (Avon, $7.99, 0061015733)
5. The Cat Who Went Bananas by Lilian Jackson Braun (Jove, $7.99, 0515139785)
6. In a Dark House by Deborah Crombie (Avon, $7.50, 0060525266)
7. Double Tap by Steve Martini (Jove, $7.99, 0515139734)
8. Whiteout by Ken Follett (Signet, $7.99, 0451215710)
9. The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agatston, M.D. (St. Martin's, $7.99, 0312991193)
10. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Warner, $6.99, 0316769487)
Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (children's movie tie-in) by C.S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0060765461)
2. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3) by Jonathan Stroud (Miramax Books, $17.95, 0786818611)
3. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
5. A Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy, illustrated by Jon J. Muth (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786851112)
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
7. The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall (Knopf, $15.95, 0375831436)
8. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12) by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist (HarperCollins, $11.99, 0064410153)
9. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (Del Rey, $6.99, 0345413350)
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $8.99, 0439139600)
11. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
12. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $9.99, 0439358078)
13. Dragonology by Ernest Drake, illustrated by Helen Ward and Douglas Carrel (Candlewick, $19.99, 0763623296)
14. The Chronicles of Narnia (boxed set) by C.S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $19.99, 0066238501)
15. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House, $7.99, 0439709105)
[Many thanks to Book Sense and NCIBA!]
Hardcover Fiction
1. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Knopf, $20, 140004460X)
2. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton (Putnam, $26.95, 0399152970)
3. The Lighthouse by P.D. James (Knopf, $25.95, 030726291X)
4. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200637)
5. The March by E.L. Doctorow (Random House, $25.95, 0375506713)
6. Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (Putnam, $26.95, 0399153012)
7. Amazing Peace by Maya Angelou (Random House, $9.95, 1400065585)
8. The Sea by John Banville (Knopf, $23, 0307263118)
9. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95, 0385504209)
10. The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster (Holt, $24, 0805077146)
11. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (FSG, $23, 0374153892)
12. Veronica by Mary Gaitskill (Pantheon, $23, 0375421459)
13. Christ the Lord by Anne Rice (Knopf, $25.95, 0375412018)
14. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786868716)
15. The Trouble With Poetry by Billy Collins (Random House, $22.95, 037550382X)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X)
2. Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter (S&S, $25, 0743284577)
3. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
4. Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman (HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, 0060738170)
5. Healthy Aging by Andrew Weil (Knopf, $27.95, 0375407553)
6. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (S&S, $35, 0684824906)
7. The Elements of Style Illustrated by William Strunk et al. (Penguin Press, $24.95, 1594200696)
8. My Friend Leonard by James Frey (Riverhead, $24.95, 1573223158)
9. Marley & Me by John Grogan (Morrow, $21.95, 0060817089)
10. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
11. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
12. Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (Scribner, $26, 0743243773)
13. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Seven Stories, $23.95, 158322713X)
14. Love Smart by Dr. Phil McGraw (Free Press, $26, 0743272099)
15. A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester (HarperCollins, $27.95, 0060571993)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
2. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (Scribner, $9.95, 0743271327)
3. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860)
4. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Vintage, $14.95, 0307275167)
5. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Vintage, $14.95, 1400079276)
6. Runaway by Alice Munro (Vintage, $14.95, 1400077915)
7. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (Regan Books, $15, 0060987103)
8. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
9. Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith (Pocket, $14, 0671775952)
10. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559)
11. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707)
12. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
13. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House, $13.95, 081297235X)
14. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Bloomsbury, $14.95, 1582346100)
15. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14, 015602943X)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (Anchor, $14.95, 0307276902)
2. Collapse by Jared Diamond (Penguin, $17, 0143036556)
3. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (Plume, $15, 0452287081)
4. Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson (Harvest, $15, 0156031442)
5. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Vintage, $14, 0679745580)
6. The End of Faith by Sam Harris (Norton, $13.95, 0393327655)
7. 365: No Repeats by Rachael Ray (Clarkson Potter, $19.95, 1400082544)
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. Chronicles by Bob Dylan (S&S, $14, 0743244583)
11. Zagat San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants (Zagat, $13.95, 1570067384)
12. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 0761136193)
13. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen, $12.95, 1878424319)
14. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95, 0393317552)
15. Bad Dog by R.D. Rosen et al. (Workman, $9.95, 0761139834)
Mass Market
1. The Broker by John Grisham (Dell, $7.99, 0440241588)
2. The Motive by John Lescroart (Signet, $7.99, 0451215729)
3. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
4. State of Fear by Michael Crichton (Avon, $7.99, 0061015733)
5. The Cat Who Went Bananas by Lilian Jackson Braun (Jove, $7.99, 0515139785)
6. In a Dark House by Deborah Crombie (Avon, $7.50, 0060525266)
7. Double Tap by Steve Martini (Jove, $7.99, 0515139734)
8. Whiteout by Ken Follett (Signet, $7.99, 0451215710)
9. The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agatston, M.D. (St. Martin's, $7.99, 0312991193)
10. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Warner, $6.99, 0316769487)
Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (children's movie tie-in) by C.S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0060765461)
2. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3) by Jonathan Stroud (Miramax Books, $17.95, 0786818611)
3. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
5. A Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy, illustrated by Jon J. Muth (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786851112)
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
7. The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall (Knopf, $15.95, 0375831436)
8. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12) by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist (HarperCollins, $11.99, 0064410153)
9. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (Del Rey, $6.99, 0345413350)
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $8.99, 0439139600)
11. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
12. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $9.99, 0439358078)
13. Dragonology by Ernest Drake, illustrated by Helen Ward and Douglas Carrel (Candlewick, $19.99, 0763623296)
14. The Chronicles of Narnia (boxed set) by C.S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $19.99, 0066238501)
15. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House, $7.99, 0439709105)
[Many thanks to Book Sense and NCIBA!]