The following were the bestselling titles at independent bookstores in
and around Chicago during the week ended Sunday, December 6:
Hardcover Fiction
- Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
- Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
- A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Hardcover Nonfiction
- Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
- Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- Open by Andre Agassi
- Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
Paperback Fiction
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- Push by Sapphire
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Paperback Nonfiction
- The Best American Non-required Reading by Dave Eggers
- Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis
- Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- American Lion by Jon Meacham
- The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
Children's
- The Guinness Book of World Records 2010
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- Fancy Nancy's Splendiferous Christmas by Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser
- Sugar Cookies by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
- The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
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 booksellers and Carl Lennertz!]