Top-Selling Titles in Chicagoland Last Week
The following were
the bestselling titles at independent bookstores in and around Chicago
during the week ended Sunday, December 20:
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
3. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
4. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
5. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
2. Stones into Schools by Greg Mortensen
3. Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
4. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
5. SuperFreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
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. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Paperback Nonfiction
1. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
2. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
3. Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis
4. American Lion by Jon Meacham
5. My Life in France by Julia Child
Children's
1. Maze Runner by James Dashner
2. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
4. Crocodile Tears by Anthony Horowitz
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #1 by Jeff Kinney
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!]
