The following were the bestselling titles at Southern California
Booksellers Association stores during the week ended Sunday, November
5, as reported to Book Sense:
Hardcover Fiction
1. For One More Day by Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $21.95, 1401303277)
2. Echo Park by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26.99, 0316734950)
3. The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford (Knopf, $26.95, 0679454683)
4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, $24, 0307265439)
5. Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier (Random House, $26.95, 0375509321)
6. Hundred-Dollar Baby by Robert B. Parker (Putnam, $24.95, 0399153764)
7. Paint It Black by Janet Fitch (Little, Brown, $24.99, 0316182745)
8. What Came Before He Shot Her by Elizabeth George (HarperCollins, $26.95, 0060545623)
9. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.99, 0446528056)
10. What Is the What by Dave Eggers (McSweeney's, $26, 1932416641)
11. Lisey's Story by Stephen King (Scribner, $28, 0743289412)
12. The Collectors by David Baldacci (Warner, $26.99, 044653109X)
13. Under Orders by Dick Francis (Putnam, $25.95, 0399154000)
14. One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown, $24.99, 0316154849)
15. H.R.H. by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press, $27, 0385338295)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (Crown, $25, 0307237699)
2. You: On a Diet by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz (Free Press, $25, 0743292545)
3. State of Denial by Bob Woodward (S&S, $30, 0743272234)
4. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (Knopf, $19.95, 0307264556)
5. The Innocent Man by John Grisham (Doubleday, $28.95, 0385517238)
6. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Houghton Mifflin, $27, 0618680004)
7. I Like You by Amy Sedaris (Warner, $27.99, 0446578843)
8. Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway, $26, 0767920929)
9. Life After Death by Deepak Chopra (Harmony, $24, 0307345785)
10. French Women for All Seasons by Mireille Guiliano (Knopf, $24.95, 0307265234)
11. A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 by Annie Leibovitz (Random House, $75, 0375505091)
12. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris (Knopf, $16.95, 0307265773)
13. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (Broadway, $25, 076791936X)
14. Walt Disney by Neal Gabler (Knopf, $35, 067943822X)
15. Thunderstruck by Erik Larson (Crown, $25.95, 1400080665)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14, 0143037145)
2. Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (Ballantine, $14.95, 034546401X)
3. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860)
4. The Lighthouse by P.D. James (Vintage, $13.95, 0307275736)
5. March by Geraldine Brooks (Penguin, $14, 0143036661)
6. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Random House, $13.95, 0812968069)
7. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Back Bay, $15.99, 0316154547)
8. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperSanFrancisco, $13.95, 0061122416)
9. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Grove, $14, 0802142818)
10. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
11. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (Riverhead, $15, 1594482306)
12. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707)
13. Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee (Penguin, $14, 0143037897)
14. Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric Nylund (Tor, $12.95, 0765315688)
15. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (Picador, $14, 0312425414)
2. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Penguin, $15, 0143036939)
3. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14, 074324754X)
4. Zagat Survey: Los Angeles/Southern California Restaurants 2007 (Zagat, $14.95, 1570068119)
5. Bad President by R.D. Rosen, Harry Prichett and Rob Battles (Workman, $8.95, 0761146202)
6. 1491 by Charles C. Mann (Vintage, $14.95, 1400032059)
7. 100 Words to Make You Sound Smart by American Heritage Dictionaries editors (Houghton Mifflin, $4.95, 061871488X)
8. Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser (Anchor, $16.95, 0307277747)
9. Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky (Owl, $13, 0805076883)
10. Spook by Mary Roach (Norton, $13.95, 0393329127)
11. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris (Back Bay, $8.95, 0316779237)
12. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
13. The River of Doubt by Candice Millard (Broadway, $14.95, 0767913736)
14. What to Expect When You're Expecting by Heidi E. Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg and Sandee Hathaway (Workman, $13.95, 0761121323)
15. Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (Scribner, $15, 0743243781)
Mass Market
1. Valley of Silence by Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99, 0515141674)
2. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Warner, $7.99, 0446616451)
3. Mary, Mary by James Patterson (Warner, $9.99, 0446619035)
4. The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard (HarperTorch, $9.99, 0060724234)
5. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (HarperTorch, $7.99, 0060515198)
6. The Ambler Warning by Robert Ludlum (St. Martin's, $9.99, 0312990693)
7. Predator by Patricia D. Cornwell (Berkley, $9.99, 0425210278)
8. Death and Judgment by Donna Leon (Penguin, $7.99, 0143035827)
9. The Camel Club by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 0446615625)
10. Thanksgiving by Janet Evanovich (HarperTorch, $7.99, 0060598808)
Children's Titles
1. The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13) by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist (HarperCollins, $12.99, 0064410161)
2. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Laurel-Leaf, $6.99, 044023848X)
3. Mommy? by Arthur Yorinks and Maurice Sendak (Michael Di Capua, $24.95, 0439880505)
4. Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic, $4.99, 0439376149)
5. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
6. Pirateology by Captain William Lubber (Candlewick, $19.99, 0763631434)
7. The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist (HarperCollins, $19.99, 0060586583)
8. The Night Before Thanksgiving by Tammie Lyon, illustrated by Natasha Wing (Grosset & Dunlap, $3.99, 0448425297)
9. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins, $16.95, 0060254920)
10. Blizzard of the Blue Moon (Magic Tree House #36) by Mary Pope Osborne, illustrated by Sal Murdocca (Random House, $11.95, 0375830375)
11. Mythic Vision: The Making of Eragon by Mark Cotta Vaz (Knopf, $12.95, 0375839178)
12. The English Roses, Too Good to Be True by Madonna (Callaway Editions, $19.95, 0670061476)
13. Tails by Matthew Van Fleet (Red Wagon, $13.95, 0152167730)
14. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving by Charles M. Schulz (Little Simon, $5.99, 0689850271)
15. Your Personal Penguin by Sandra Boynton (Workman, $6.95, 0761143726)
[Many thanks to Book Sense and SCBA!]
Hardcover Fiction
1. For One More Day by Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $21.95, 1401303277)
2. Echo Park by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26.99, 0316734950)
3. The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford (Knopf, $26.95, 0679454683)
4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, $24, 0307265439)
5. Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier (Random House, $26.95, 0375509321)
6. Hundred-Dollar Baby by Robert B. Parker (Putnam, $24.95, 0399153764)
7. Paint It Black by Janet Fitch (Little, Brown, $24.99, 0316182745)
8. What Came Before He Shot Her by Elizabeth George (HarperCollins, $26.95, 0060545623)
9. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.99, 0446528056)
10. What Is the What by Dave Eggers (McSweeney's, $26, 1932416641)
11. Lisey's Story by Stephen King (Scribner, $28, 0743289412)
12. The Collectors by David Baldacci (Warner, $26.99, 044653109X)
13. Under Orders by Dick Francis (Putnam, $25.95, 0399154000)
14. One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown, $24.99, 0316154849)
15. H.R.H. by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press, $27, 0385338295)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (Crown, $25, 0307237699)
2. You: On a Diet by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz (Free Press, $25, 0743292545)
3. State of Denial by Bob Woodward (S&S, $30, 0743272234)
4. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (Knopf, $19.95, 0307264556)
5. The Innocent Man by John Grisham (Doubleday, $28.95, 0385517238)
6. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Houghton Mifflin, $27, 0618680004)
7. I Like You by Amy Sedaris (Warner, $27.99, 0446578843)
8. Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway, $26, 0767920929)
9. Life After Death by Deepak Chopra (Harmony, $24, 0307345785)
10. French Women for All Seasons by Mireille Guiliano (Knopf, $24.95, 0307265234)
11. A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 by Annie Leibovitz (Random House, $75, 0375505091)
12. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris (Knopf, $16.95, 0307265773)
13. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (Broadway, $25, 076791936X)
14. Walt Disney by Neal Gabler (Knopf, $35, 067943822X)
15. Thunderstruck by Erik Larson (Crown, $25.95, 1400080665)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14, 0143037145)
2. Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (Ballantine, $14.95, 034546401X)
3. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860)
4. The Lighthouse by P.D. James (Vintage, $13.95, 0307275736)
5. March by Geraldine Brooks (Penguin, $14, 0143036661)
6. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Random House, $13.95, 0812968069)
7. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Back Bay, $15.99, 0316154547)
8. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperSanFrancisco, $13.95, 0061122416)
9. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Grove, $14, 0802142818)
10. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
11. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (Riverhead, $15, 1594482306)
12. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316010707)
13. Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee (Penguin, $14, 0143037897)
14. Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric Nylund (Tor, $12.95, 0765315688)
15. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (Picador, $14, 0312425414)
2. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Penguin, $15, 0143036939)
3. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14, 074324754X)
4. Zagat Survey: Los Angeles/Southern California Restaurants 2007 (Zagat, $14.95, 1570068119)
5. Bad President by R.D. Rosen, Harry Prichett and Rob Battles (Workman, $8.95, 0761146202)
6. 1491 by Charles C. Mann (Vintage, $14.95, 1400032059)
7. 100 Words to Make You Sound Smart by American Heritage Dictionaries editors (Houghton Mifflin, $4.95, 061871488X)
8. Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser (Anchor, $16.95, 0307277747)
9. Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky (Owl, $13, 0805076883)
10. Spook by Mary Roach (Norton, $13.95, 0393329127)
11. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris (Back Bay, $8.95, 0316779237)
12. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
13. The River of Doubt by Candice Millard (Broadway, $14.95, 0767913736)
14. What to Expect When You're Expecting by Heidi E. Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg and Sandee Hathaway (Workman, $13.95, 0761121323)
15. Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (Scribner, $15, 0743243781)
Mass Market
1. Valley of Silence by Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99, 0515141674)
2. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Warner, $7.99, 0446616451)
3. Mary, Mary by James Patterson (Warner, $9.99, 0446619035)
4. The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard (HarperTorch, $9.99, 0060724234)
5. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (HarperTorch, $7.99, 0060515198)
6. The Ambler Warning by Robert Ludlum (St. Martin's, $9.99, 0312990693)
7. Predator by Patricia D. Cornwell (Berkley, $9.99, 0425210278)
8. Death and Judgment by Donna Leon (Penguin, $7.99, 0143035827)
9. The Camel Club by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 0446615625)
10. Thanksgiving by Janet Evanovich (HarperTorch, $7.99, 0060598808)
Children's Titles
1. The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13) by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist (HarperCollins, $12.99, 0064410161)
2. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Laurel-Leaf, $6.99, 044023848X)
3. Mommy? by Arthur Yorinks and Maurice Sendak (Michael Di Capua, $24.95, 0439880505)
4. Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic, $4.99, 0439376149)
5. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
6. Pirateology by Captain William Lubber (Candlewick, $19.99, 0763631434)
7. The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist (HarperCollins, $19.99, 0060586583)
8. The Night Before Thanksgiving by Tammie Lyon, illustrated by Natasha Wing (Grosset & Dunlap, $3.99, 0448425297)
9. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins, $16.95, 0060254920)
10. Blizzard of the Blue Moon (Magic Tree House #36) by Mary Pope Osborne, illustrated by Sal Murdocca (Random House, $11.95, 0375830375)
11. Mythic Vision: The Making of Eragon by Mark Cotta Vaz (Knopf, $12.95, 0375839178)
12. The English Roses, Too Good to Be True by Madonna (Callaway Editions, $19.95, 0670061476)
13. Tails by Matthew Van Fleet (Red Wagon, $13.95, 0152167730)
14. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving by Charles M. Schulz (Little Simon, $5.99, 0689850271)
15. Your Personal Penguin by Sandra Boynton (Workman, $6.95, 0761143726)
[Many thanks to Book Sense and SCBA!]