The following were the bestselling titles at independent bookstores in
and around Chicago during the week ended Sunday, December 13:
Hardcover Fiction
1. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
3. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
4. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
5. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
2. The Imperial Cruise by James Bradley
3. SuperFreakonomics by Steven Leavitt and Stephen Dubner
4. True Compass by Edward Kennedy
5. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Paperback Fiction
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
2. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
3. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Paperback Nonfiction
1. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
2. Blind Side by Michael Lewis
3. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
4. American Lion by Jon Meacham
5. My Life in France by Julia Child
Children's
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
2. Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
3. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
4. Crocodile Tears by Alex Horowitz
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
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 booksellers and to Carl Lennertz!]
