SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLERS

Oct. 11

HARDCOVER

FICTION Bay Area

1. THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS Elena Ferrante ( Europa Editions; $ 26)

2. THE VANISHING HALF Brit Bennett ( Riverhead Books; $ 27)

3. TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM Yaa Gyasi ( Knopf; $ 27.95)

4. ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE Louise Penny ( Minotaur; $ 28.99)

5. THE EVENING AND THE MORNING Ken Follett ( Viking; $ 36)

6. MEXICAN GOTHIC Silvia Moreno- Garcia ( Del Rey; $ 27)

7. SQUEEZE ME Carl Hiaasen ( Knopf; $ 28.95)

8. JACK * Marilynne Robinson ( FSG; $ 27)

9. PIRANESI Susanna Clarke ( Bloomsbury Publishing; $ 27)

10. ANXIOUS PEOPLE Fredrik Backman ( Atria; $ 28)

NONFICTION Bay Area

1. CASTE: The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel House; Wilkerson $ 32) ( Random

2. RAGE Bob Woodward ( S& S; $ 30)

3. UNTAMED Glennon Doyle ( The Dial Press; $ 28)

4. HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST Ibram X. Kendi ( One World; $ 27)

5. DISLOYAL Michael Cohen ( Skyhorse; $ 32.50)

6. ALL WE CAN SAVE: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson ( Eds.) ( One World; $ 29)

7. THE MEANING OF MARIAH CAREY * Mariah Carey ( Andy Cohen Books; $ 29.99)

8. SOLUTIONS AND OTHER PROBLEMS Allie Brosh ( Gallery Books; $ 30)

9. WHERE LAW ENDS: Inside the Mueller Investigation * Andrew Weismann ( Randon House; $ 30)

10. BREATH: The New Science of a Lost Art James Nestor ( Riverhead Books; $ 28)

PAPERBACK

FICTION Bay Area

1. CIRCE Madeline Miller ( Back Bay; $ 16.99)

2. THE TESTAMENTS * Margaret Atwood ( Anchor; $ 16.95)

3. THE OVERSTORY Richard Powers ( Norton; $ 18.95)

4. NORMAL PEOPLE Sally Colson

5. THE Rooney NICKEL Whitehead ( Hogarth; BOYS ( Anchor; $ 17) $ 15.95)

6. HOMEGOING Yaa Gyasi ( Vintage; $ 16.95)

7. THE TOPEKA SCHOOL * Ben Lerner ( Picador; $ 17)

8. THE SONG OF ACHILLES Madeline Miller ( Ecco; $ 16.99)

9. PARABLE OF THE SOWER Octavia E. Butler ( Grand Central; $ 16.99)

10. THE STARLESS SEA * Erin Morgenstern ( Anchor; $ 16.95)

NONFICTION Bay Area

1. WHITE FRAGILITY Robin Di Angelo ( Beacon Press; $ 16)

2. MY OWN WORDS Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( S& S; $ 18)

3. BORN A CRIME Trevor Noah ( One World; $ 18)

4. BRAIDING SWEETGRASS * Robin Wall Kimmerer ( Milkweed Editions; $ 18)

5. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE * Bessel van der Kolk ( Penguin; $ 19)

6. MY GRANDMOTHER’S HANDS Resmaa Menakem ( Central Recovery Press; $ 17.95)

7. THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS Isabel Wilkerson ( Vintage; $ 17.95)

8. SAPIENS Yuval Noah Harari ( Harper Perennial; $ 24.99)

9. THE TRUTHS WE HOLD * Kamala Harris ( Penguin; $ 18)

10. THE COLOR OF LAW Richard Rothstein ( Liveright; $ 17.95)