The following were the bestselling titles at City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, Calif., during October:
Hardcover
- Poetry as Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (New Directions)
- War Dances: Stories by Sherman Alexie (Grove)
- The Beats: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar (FSG)
- Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne (Viking)
- You're A Genius All the Time by Jack Kerouac (Chronicle)
- Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
- 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick (MIT Press)
- Thelonious Monk by Robin Kelley (Free Press)
- Street Art San Francisco by Annice Jacoby (Abrams)
- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (McSweeney's)
Paperback
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Knopf)
- Bang Ditto by Amber Tamblyn (Manic D)
- Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin (Melville House)
- Best American Non-required Reading edited by Dave Eggers (Houghton Mifflin)
- Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin (City Lights)
- 2666 by Roberto Bolano (St. Martin's)
- A Mercy by Toni Morrison (Knopf)
- The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (Riverhead)
- Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst (Riverhead)
- The Awakener by Helen Weaver (City Lights)