SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST-SELLERS Sept. 16

2018-09-16 -

HARDCOVER

FICTION Bay Area

1. THERE THERE

Tommy Orange (Knopf; $25.95)

2. WARLIGHT

Michael Ondaatje (Knopf; $26.95)

3. THE FALL OF GONDOLIN

J.R.R Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Ed.), Alan Lee (Illus.), (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $30)

4. FRENCH EXIT

Patrick deWitt (Ecco; $25.99)

5. LAKE SUCCESS *

Gary Shteyngart (Random House; $28) 6. CIRCE

Madeline Miller

(Little, Brown; $27)

7. MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press; $26) 8. A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW

Amor Towles (Viking; $27)

9. THE POWER

Naomi Alderman (Little Brown; $26)

10. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE Celeste Ng (Penguin Press; $27)

NONFICTION Bay Area

1. EDUCATED

Tara Westover (Random House; $28)

2. 21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY *

Yuval Noah Harari (Spiegel & Grau; $28)

3. SMALL FRY *

Lisa Brennan-Jobs (Grove Press; $26)

3. THE RESTLESS WAVE *

John McCain & Mark Salter (S&S; $30)

4. CALYPSO

David Sedaris

(Little Brown; $28)

5. BAD BLOOD: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou (Knopf; $27.95)

6. THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F*CK Mark Manson (Harper; $24.99)

7. HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND

Michael Pollan (Penguin Press; $28)

8. THE SOUL OF AMERICA: The Battle for Our Better Angels

Jon Meacham (Random House; $30)

9. ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY

Neil deGrasse Tyson (Norton; $18.95)

10. THE DEATH OF TRUTH

Michiko Kakutani (Tim Duggan Books; $22)

FICTION National

1. THE FALL OF GONDOLIN *

J.R.R Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Ed.), Alan Lee (Illus.), (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $30)

2. TEXAS RANGER James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle (Little, Brown; $28)

3. THE PRESIDENT IS

MISSING

Bill Clinton and James Patterson (Little Brown; $30)

4. THE OUTSIDER

Stephen King (Scribner; $30)

5. TAILSPIN

Sandra Brown (Grand Central; $27)

6. PIECES OF HER

Karin Slaughter (Morrow; $27.99)

7. CIRCE

Madeline Miller

(Little, Brown; $27)

8. STYGIAN *

Sherrilyn Kenyon (Tor Books; $27.99)

9. BEFORE WE WERE YOURS

Lisa Wingate (Ballantine; $26)

10. THERE THERE

Tommy Orange (Knopf; $25.95)

NONFICTION National

1. THE RESTLESS WAVE John McCain & Mark Salter (S&S; $30)

2. THE RUSSIAN HOAX Gregg Jarrett (Broadside; $28.99)

3. EDUCATED

Tara Westover (Random House; $28)

4. AWARE * Daniel Siegel (TarcherPerigee; $28)

5. UNHINGED: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House

Omarosa Manigault Newman (Gallery; $28) 6. LIARS, LEAKERS AND LIBERALS

Jeanine Pirro

(Center Street; $27)

7. ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY

Neil deGrasse Tyson (Norton; $18.95)

8. WINNER TAKES ALL: The Elite Charade of Changing the World *

Anand Giridharadas (Knopf; $26.95)

9. HOUSE OF TRUMP, HOUSE OF PUTIN Craig Unger (Dutton; $30)

10. BETWEEN YOU AND ME

Ta-nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau; $30) Bay Area rankings based on sales in independent bookstores in the Bay Area during the week ending Monday, Sept. 10. Rankings provided by the American Booksellers Association and Northern California Independent Booksellers Association.

PAPERBACK

FICTION Bay Area

1. CRAZY RICH ASIANS Kevin Kwan (Anchor; $16) 2. LESS

Andrew Sean Greer (Back Bay; $15.99)

3. CHINA RICH GIRLFRIEND

Kevin Kwan (Anchor; $16) 4. RICH PEOPLE PROBLEMS

Kevin Kwan (Anchor; $16.95)

5. PACHINKO

Min Jin Lee (Grand Central; $17.99)

6. ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE

Gail Honeyman

(Penguin; $16)

7. MANHATTAN BEACH

Jennifer Egan (Scribner; $17)

8. ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE Anthony Doerr (Scribner; $17)

9. NORSE MYTHOLOGY *

Neil Gaiman(Norton; $15.95)

10. HOPE NEVER DIES

Andrew Shaffer (Quirk Books; $14.99)

NONFICTION Bay Area

1. SAPIENS: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari (Harper Perennial; $22.99)

2. KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL Anthony Bourdain (Ecco; $16.99)

3. CALL THEM BY THEIR TRUE NAMES: American Crises (and Essays) Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books; $15.95) 4. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann (Vintage; $16.95)

5. WHY WE SLEEP

Matthew Walker (Scribner; $17)

6. WHITE FRAGILITY: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin DiAngelo (Beacon Press; $16)

7. HILLBILLY ELEGY: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis *

J.D. Vance (Harper; $16.99)

8. THE WOMAN WHO SMASHED CODES * Jason Fagone (Dey Street Books; $16.99) 9. BEING MORTAL

Atul Gawande (Picador; $17)

10. YOU ARE A BADASS

Jen Sincero (Running Press; $16) National best-seller lists are based on computer-processed reports from bookstores and wholesalers throughout the United States.

FICTION National

1. CRAZY RICH ASIANS Kevin Kwan (Anchor; $16) 2. CHINA RICH GIRLFRIEND

Kevin Kwan (Anchor; $16) 3. RICH PEOPLE PROBLEMS

Kevin Kwan (Anchor; $16.95)

4. SHARP OBJECTS Gillian Flynn (Broadway; $16)

5. ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE

Gail Honeyman (Penguin; $16)

6. LESS

Andrew Sean Greer (Back Bay; $15.99)

7. THE HANDMAID’S TALE

Margaret Atwood (Anchor; $15.95)

8. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY