San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST-SELLERS
Bay Area rankings for Jan. 1
HARDCOVER
FICTION Bay Area
1. DEMON COPPERHEAD
Barbara Kingsolver (Harper, $32.50)
2. LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday, $29)
3. A WORLD OF CURIOSITIES
Louise Penny (Minotaur, $29.99)
4. HORSE
Geraldine Brooks (Viking, $28)
5. TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW
Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf, $28)
6. THE PASSENGER
Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, $30)
7. TRUST
Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books, $28)
8. STELLA MARIS
Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, $26)
9. BABEL *
R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager, $27.99)
10. SEA OF TRANQUILITY *
Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf, $25)
NONFICTION Bay Area
1. THE LIGHT WE CARRY: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Michelle Obama (Crown, $32.50) 2. AN IMMENSE WORLD: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong (Random House, $30) 3. WHAT IF? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe (Riverhead Books, $30)
4. GO-TO DINNERS: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter, $35)
5. THE SONG OF THE CELL: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner, $32.50)
6. A BOOK OF DAYS
Patti Smith (Random House, $28.99)
7. THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster, $45)
8. I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED
Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster, $27.99)
9. SURRENDER: 40 Songs, One Story
Bono (Knopf, $34)
10. DINNER IN ONE: Exceptional & Easy One-Pan Meals
Melissa Clark (Clarkson Potter, $29.99)
PAPERBACK
FICTION Bay Area
1. CUCKOO CLOUD LAND
Anthony Doerr (Scribner, $20)
2. CIRCE
Madeline Miller (Back Bay, $16.99) 3. THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO
Taylor Jenkins Reid (Washington Square Press, $17) 4. THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2022
Andrew Sean Greer, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.) (Mariner, $17.99)
5. THE SONGS OF ACHILLES
Madeline Miller (Ecco, $17.99)
6. THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
Richard Osman (Penguin, $17)
7. IT ENDS WITH US
Colleen Hoover (Atria, $16.99) 8. PROJECT HAIL MARY Andy Weir (Ballantine, $20)
9. THE SENTENCE
Louise Erdrich (Harper Perennial, $18) 10. THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE *
Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit, $18.99)
NONFICTION Bay Area
1. BRAIDING SWEETGRASS: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions, $20)
2. ALL ABOUT LOVE: New Visions
bell hooks (Morrow, $15.99)
3. ALL ABOUT ME!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
Mel Brooks (Ballantine, $20)
4. FUZZ: When Nature Breaks the Law
Mary Roach (Norton, $16.95)
5. THESE PRECIOUS DAYS: Essays
Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial, $18)
6. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. (Penguin, $19)
7. ENTANGLED LIFE: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake (Random House, $18) 8. THE COASTS OF CALIFORNIA: A California Field Atlas
Obi Kaufmann (Heyday Books, $55) 9. SPIRITS OF SAN FRANCISCO: Voyages Through the Unknown City
Gary Kamiya, Paul Madonna (Illus.) (Bloomsbury Publishing, $18)
10. THE 2023 OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC
Old Farmer’s Almanac (Old Farmer’s Almanac, $8.95) * New on list this week
Bay Area rankings based on sales in independent bookstores in the Bay Area during the week that ended Monday, Dec. 26. Rankings provided by the American Booksellers Association and Northern California Independent Booksellers Association.