SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST-SELLERS
FICTION Bay Area
1. A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW Amor Towles (Viking; $27) 2. THE LATE SHOW Michael Connelly (Little Brown; $28) 3. THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS Arundhati Roy (Knopf; $28.95) 4. CAMINO ISLAND John Grisham (Doubleday; $28.95) 5. MAGPIE MURDERS Anthony Horowitz (Harper; $27.99) 6. LESS Andrew Sean Greer (Lee Boudreaux Books; $26) 7. HOUSE OF SPIES Daniel Silva (Harper; $28.99) 8. INTO THE WATER Paula Hawkins (Riverhead; $28) 9. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Colson Whitehead (Doubleday; $26.95) 10. MEN WITHOUT WOMEN Haruki Murakami (Knopf; $25.95)
NONFICTION Bay Area
1. ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY Neil Degrasse Tyson (Norton; $18.95) 2. HILLBILLY ELEGY J.D. Vance (Harper; $27.99) 3. AL FRANKEN, GIANT OF THE SENATE Al Franken (Twelve; $28) 4. DEVIL’S BARGAIN: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency Joshua Green (Penguin Press; $27) 5. THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F*CK Mark Manson (HarperOne; $24.99) 6. THE BOOK OF JOY The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Avery; $26) 7. THEFT BY FINDING: Diaries (1977-2002) David Sedaris (Little Brown; $28) 8. BORN A CRIME Trevor Noah, (Spiegel & Grau; $28) 9. YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME Sherman Alexie (Little Brown; $28) 10. OPTION B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant (Knopf; $25.95)
FICTION National
1. THE LATE SHOW * Michael Connelly (Little Brown; $28) 2. CAMINO ISLAND John Grisham (Doubleday; $28.95) 3. HOUSE OF SPIES Daniel Silva (Harper; $28.99) 4. INTO THE WATER Paula Hawkins (Riverhead; $28) 5. MURDER GAMES James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little Brown; $28) 6. THE IDENTICALS Elin Hilderbrand (Little Brown; $28) 7. A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW Amor Towles (Viking; $27) 8. USE OF FORCE Brad Thor (Atria/Emily Bestler; $27.99) 9. THE DUCHESS Danielle Steel (Delacorte; $28.99) 10. THE BREAKDOWN * B.A. Paris (St. Martin’s; $25.99)
NONFICTION National
1. DEVIL’S BARGAIN * Joshua Green (Penguin Press; $27) 2. ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY Neil Degrasse Tyson (Norton; $18.95) 3. HILLBILLY ELEGY J.D. Vance (Harper; $27.99) 4. AL FRANKEN, GIANT OF THE SENATE Al Franken (Twelve; $28) 5. DANGEROUS Milo Yiannopoulos (Dangerous Books; $30) 6. REDISCOVERING AMERICANISM Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions; $27) 7. UNDERSTANDING TRUMP Newt Gingrich (Center Street; $27) 8. OPTION B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant (Knopf; $25.95) 9. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON David Grann (Doubleday; $28.95) 10. YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME Sherman Alexie (Little Brown; $28)
FICTION Bay Area
1. ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE Anthony Doerr (Scribner; $17) 2. COMMONWEALTH Ann Patchett (Haper Perennial; $16.99) 3. THE HANDMAID’S TALE Margaret Atwood (Anchor; $15.95) 4. A MAN CALLED OVE Fredrik Backman (Washington Square Press; $16) 5. HOMEGOING Yaa Gyasi (Vintage; $16) 6. MILK AND HONEY Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel; $14.99) 7. THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 Ruth Ware (Gallery/Scout Press; $16) 8. READY PLAYER ONE Ernest Cline (Broadway; $16) 9. THE SYMPATHIZER Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press; $16) 10. THE ALCHEMIST Paulo Coelho (HarperOne; $16.99)
NONFICTION Bay Area
1. ON TYRANNY: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century Timothy Snyder (Tim Duggan Books; $7.99) 2. NO IS NOT ENOUGH: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need Naomi Klein (Haymarket Books; $16.95) 3. EVICTED Matthew Desmond (Broadway; $17) 4. THE SOUL OF AN OCTOPUS Sy Montgomery (Atria; $16) 5. THE GLASS CASTLE * Jeannette Walls (Scribner; $17) 6. THE GENIUS OF BIRDS Jennifer Ackerman (Penguin; $17) 7. THE BAD-ASS LIBRARIANS OF TIMBUKTU Josh Hammer (S&S; $16) 8. WHITE TRASH Nancy Isenberg (Penguin; $17) 9. ALEXANDER HAMILTON Ron Chernow (Penguin; $20) 10. JUST MERCY Bryan Stevenson (Spiegel & Grau; $16)
FICTION National
1. THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 Ruth Ware (Scout; $16) 2. MILK AND HONEY Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel; $14.99) 3. THE HANDMAID’S TALE Margaret Atwood (Anchor; $15.95) 4. LILAC GIRLS Martha Hall Kelly (Ballantine; $17) 5. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS B.A. Paris (St. Martin’s Griffin; $16.99) 6. THE WHISTLER John Grisham (Bantam; $9.97) 7. THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR Shari Lapena (Penguin; $16) 8. ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE Anthony Doerr (Scribner; $17) 9. A MAN CALLED OVE Fredrik Backman (Washington Square; $16) 10. THE NIGHTINGALE Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Griffin; $16.99)
NONFICTION National
1. THE GLASS CASTLE Jeannette Walls (Scribner; $17) 2. DUNKIRK Joshua Levine (Morrow/ HarperCollins; $16.99) 3. ON TYRANNY: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century Timothy Snyder (Tim Duggan; $7.99) 4. THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY Erik Larson (Vintage; $16.95) 5. THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE: A War Story Diane Ackerman (Norton; $15.95) 6. ALEXANDER HAMILTON Ron Chernow (Penguin; $20) 7. JUST MERCY Bryan Stevenson (Spiegel & Grau; $16) 8. HIDDEN FIGURES Margot Lee Shetterly (Morrow; $15.99) 9. OUTLIERS Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/Little, Brown; $16.99) 10. THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS Rebecca Skloot (Broadway; $16)