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NorCal Bestsellers Northern California Independent Booksellers | Week ending June 2

Hardcover Fiction

  1. And the Mountains Echoed
    Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $28.95
  2. Inferno
    Dan Brown, Doubleday, $29.95
  3. A Delicate Truth
    John le Carré, Viking, $28.95
  4. Gone Girl
    Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25
  5. The Golem and the Jinni
    Helene Wecker, Harper, $26.99
  6. Life After Life
    Kate Atkinson, Reagan Arthur Books, $27.99
  7. The Redeemer
    Jo Nesbø, Knopf, $25.95
  8. Maya’s Notebook
    Isabel Allende, Harper, $27.99
  9. Paris
    Edward Rutherfurd, Doubleday, $32.50
  10. Little Green
    Walter Mosley, Doubleday, $25.95
  11. The Son
    Philipp Meyer, Ecco Press, $27.99
  12. The Flamethrowers
    Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $26.99
  13. Americanah
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $26.95
  14. Z
    Therese Anne Fowler, St. Martin’s, $25.99
  15. Tenth of December
    George Saunders, Random House, $26

Hardcover Nonfiction

  1. Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls
    David Sedaris, Little Brown, $27
  2. Lean In
    Sheryl Sandberg, Knopf, $24.95
  3. Cooked
    Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $27.95
  4. The Unwinding
    George Packer, FSG, $27
  5. Gulp
    Mary Roach, Norton, $26.95
  6. Vader’s Little Princess
    Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, $14.95
  7. Darth Vader and Son
    Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, $14.95
  8. Eleven Rings
    Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty, Penguin Press, $27.95
  9. I Could Pee on This
    Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle, $12.95
  10. It’s All Good
    Gwyneth Paltrow, Grand Central, $32
  11. The Drunken Botanist
    Amy Stewart, Algonquin, $19.95
  12. Help, Thanks, Wow
    Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $17.95
  13. The Billionaire and the Mechanic
    Julian Guthrie, Grove Press, $27
  14. The Guns at Last Light
    Rick Atkinson, Holt, $40
  15. Lost Cat
    Caroline Paul, Wendy Macnaughton (Illus.), Bloomsbury, $20

Trade Fiction

  1. Beautiful Ruins
    Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99
  2. The Great Gatsby
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $15
  3. The Orphan Master’s Son
    Adam Johnson, Random House, $15
  4. Where’d You Go, Bernadette
    Maria Semple, Back Bay, $14.99
  5. Bring Up the Bodies
    Hilary Mantel, Picador USA, $16
  6. World War Z
    Max Brooks, Broadway, $14.95
  7. The Art Forger
    B.A. Shapiro, Algonquin, $14.95
  8. Broken Harbor
    Tana French, Penguin, $16
  9. Istanbul Passage
    Joseph Kanon, Washington Square Press, $16
  10. Wolf Hall
    Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16
  11. The Light Between Oceans
    M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16
  12. The Black Box
    Michael Connelly, Grand Central, $14.99
  13. The Paris Wife
    Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15
  14. The Orchardist
    Amanda Coplin, Harper Perennial, $15.99
  15. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
    Rachel Joyce, Random House, $15

Trade Nonfiction

  1. Wild
    Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95
  2. Proof of Heaven
    Eben Alexander, M.D., S&S, $15.99
  3. Quiet
    Susan Cain, Broadway, $16
  4. Thinking, Fast and Slow
    Daniel Kahneman, FSG, $16
  5. Season of the Witch
    David Talbot, Free Press, $16
  6. God’s Hotel
    Victoria Sweet, Riverhead, $16
  7. The Tools
    Phil Stutz, Barry Michels, Spiegel & Grau, $16
  8. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns)
    Mindy Kaling, Three Rivers, $14
  9. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
    Jenny Lawson, Berkley, $16
  10. F in Exams
    Richard Benson, Chronicle, $9.95
  11. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
    Anna Quindlen, Random House, $15
  12. Why Does the World Exist?
    Jim Holt, Liveright Publishing Corporation, $16.95
  13. Steal Like an Artist
    Austin Kleon, Workman, $10.95
  14. Subliminal
    Leonard Mlodinow, Vintage Books, $15
  15. The Black Count
    Tom Reiss, Broadway, $16






















Bay Area Authors
Kim Addonizio
Kathryn J. Abajian
Charlie Jane Anders
Tamin Ansary
Isabel Allende
Anita Amirrezvani
Peter S. Beagle
John Bear
Dodie Bellamy
Dennis J. Bernstein
Terry Bisson
Cara Black
Jack Bowen
Rhys Bowen
Elizabeth Bradfield
Kate Braverman
S. G. Browne
David Carkeet
Chris Carlsson
Zoe Fitzgerald Carter
Terry Castle
Michael Chabon
Daniel Clowes
Kelly Corrigan
Lincoln Cushing
Lisa Dalby
Mark Danner
N.A. Diaman
Chitra B. Divakaruni
Diane di Prima
N. A. Diaman
Frances Dinkelspiel
Dossie Easton
Barry Eichengreen
Dave Eggers
Stephen Elliott 

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Timothy Ferris
Karen Joy Fowler
Joan Frank
James N. Frey
Melanie Gideon
Barry Gifford
Dana Gioia
Andrew Goldfarb
Lisa Goldstein
Daphne Gottlieb
William Gordon
Judy Grahn
Robert Graysmith
Liz Demi Green
Robert Hass
Daniel Handler
Dorothy J. Heydt
Jane Hirshfield
Adam Hochschild
Susan Schott Karr
Dacher Keltner
Maxine Hong Kingston
Derek Kirk Kim
Ellen Klages
Michael Krasny
Harry Kreisler
Alice LaPlante
Leslie Larson
Don Lattin
Tony Lazzarini
Annie Leonard
John Lescroart
Michael Lewis
Ken Light
Melanie Light



Paul R. Linde
Andrea Lingenfelter
Leo Litwak
Lisa Lutz
Mary Mackey
Shana Mahaffey
Peter Nathaniel Malae
Nick Mamatas
Micheline Marcom
Armistad Maupin
Mac Mclelland
Edie Meidav
David Meltzer
Jeffrey Meyers
Christopher Moore
Nancy Mullane
Amanda Nadelburg
Annalee Newitz
Cornelia Nixon
Katia Noyes
Charlotte Painter
Michael Parenti
Raj Patel
Elizabeth Percer
Aimee Phan
Peter Plate
Michael Pollan
Tim Pratt
Carol Queen
Lisa Quinn
Justin Raimondo
Michelle Richmond
Amy Reed
Kathryn Reiss
Barbara Jane Reyes
Kim Stanley Robinson




Mike Roselle
Rudy Rucker
Kay Ryan
Susan Schaller
Ariel Schrag
Tina Seelig
Elena Mauli Shapiro
William Shurtleff
Dave Smeds
Domenic Stansberry
Scott Sigler
Julia Flynn Siler
Daniel B. Silver
Romney Steele
Danielle Steel
Rebecca Solnit
Victoria Sweet
Mattilda B. Sycamore
Amy Tan
Michelle Tea
Daniel Terdiman
David Thomson
Melanie Thorne
James Toland
Adrian Tomine
Ayelet Waldman
Alice Walker
Alice Waters
Ethan Watters
Matt Warshaw
Chana Wilson
A.D. Winans
Tobias Wolff
David Vann
Blakey Vermeule

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Booksellers  
Alexander Book Co.
Babylon Falling
Black Oak Books
Book Passage
Books Inc.
Borderlands Books
Christopher’s Books
City Lights Booksellers
Copperfield’s Books
Deisel Books
Depot Bookstore
Firehouse Bistro/Books
Gray Wolf Books
Green Apple Books
Hicklebee’s
Ink Spell Books
Kepler’s Books
Marcus Books
M is for Mystery
Moe’s Books
Orinda Books 
Rebecca’s Books
SF Mystery Bookstore
SFMOMA Bookstore
The Booksmith
Willow Glen Books

































Publishers 

Avalon Travel
Carousel Press
Children’s Book Press
Chronicle Books
City Lights Publishers
Heydey Books
Immedium
Komenar Publishing
Lonely Planet
MacAdam/Cage
McSweeney’s
New World Library
North Atlantic Books
Nolo
O’Reilley’s
PoliPoint Press
Scarlet Tanager
Sierra Club Books
Ten Speed Press
Travelers’ Tales
University of Calif. Press
Windy Hill Publications
Wine Appreciation Guild

 
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