The following were the bestselling titles at independent bookstores in and near Chicago during the week ended Sunday, November 15:
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
3. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
4. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
5. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
2. The Audacity to Win by David Plouffe
3. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
4. You Better Not Cry by Augusten Burroughs
5. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Paperback Fiction
1. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
4. Precious by Sapphire
5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Paperback Nonfiction
1. More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman
2. Our Choice by Al Gore
3. Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis
4. My Life in France by Julia Child
5. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Children's
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 4: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
3. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
4. The Giver by Lois Lowry
5. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Reporting bookstores: Anderson's, Naperville and Downers Grove; Read Between the Lynes, Woodstock; the Book Table, Oak Park; the Book Cellar, Lincoln Square; Lake Forest Books, Lake Forest; the Bookstall at Chestnut Court, Winnetka; and 57th St. Books; Seminary Co-op; Women and Children First, Chicago.
[Many thanks to the reporting bookstores and Carl Lennertz!]
