SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST-SELLERS
Jan. 21
HARDCOVER FICTION Bay Area
NONFICTION Bay Area 1. SING, UNBURIED, SING Jesmyn Ward (Scribner; $26) 2. THE POWER Naomi Alderman (Little, Brown; $26) 3. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE Celeste Ng (Penguin; $27) 4. A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW Amor Towles (Viking; $27) 5. LINCOLN IN THE BARDO George Saunders (Random House; $28) 6. MANHATTAN BEACH Jennifer Egan (Scribner; $27) 7. THE IMMORTALISTS * Chloe Benjamin (Putnam; $26) 8. ARTEMIS Andy Weir (Crown; $27) 9. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW A.J. Finn (Morrow; $26.99) 10. THE ODYSSEY Homer, Emily Wilson (Trans.) (Norton; $39.95) 1. FIRE AND FURY: Inside The Trump White House Michael Wolff (Holt; $30) 2. LEONARDO DA VINCI Walter Isaacson (S&S; $35) 3. THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F*CK Mark Manson (HarperOne; $24.99) 4. ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY Neil deGrasse Tyson (Norton; $18.95) 5. WHY WE SLEEP: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams Matthew Walker (Scribner; $27) 6. SALT, FAT, ACID, HEAT: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking Samin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton (Illus.) (S&S; $35) 7. SAPIENS Yuval Noah Harari (Harper; $35) 8. WOMEN & POWER: A Manifesto Mary Beard (Liveright; $15.95) 9. GRANT Ron Chernow (Penguin; $40) 10. BORN A CRIME Trevor Noah (Spiegel & Grau; $28)
National best-seller lists are based on computer-processed reports from bookstores and wholesalers throughout the United States.
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FICTION National
1. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW * A.J. Finn (Morrow; $26.99) 2. ORIGIN Dan Brown (Doubleday; $29.95) 3. THE ROOSTER BAR John Grishham (Doubleday; $28.95) 4. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE Celeste Ng (Penguin; $27) 5. SING, UNBURIED, SING Jesmyn Ward (Scribner; $26) 6. ROBICHEAUX * James Lee Burke (S&S; $27.99) 7. UNBOUND * Stuart Woods (Putnam; $28) 8. THE PEOPLE VS. ALEX CROSS James Patterson (Little, Brown; $29) 9. THE MIDNIGHT LINE Lee Child (Delacorte Press; $28.99) 10. BEFORE WE WERE YOURS Lisa Wingate (Ballantine; $26) NONFICTION National 1. FIRE AND FURY: Inside The Trump White House * Michael Wolff (Holt; $30) 2. ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY Neil deGrasse Tyson (Norton; $18.95) 3. LEONARDO DA VINCI Walter Isaacson (S&S; $35) 4. GRANT Ron Chernow (Penguin; $40) 5. PROMISE ME, DAD: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose Joe Biden (Flatiron; $27) 6. LET TRUMP BE TRUMP Corey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie (Center Street; $27) 7. ANDREW JACKSON AND THE MIRACLE OF NEW ORLEANS Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger (Sentinel; $28) 8. THE LAST BLACK UNICORN Tiffany Haddish (Gallery; $26) 9. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON David Grann (Doubleday; $27) 10. HILLBILLY ELEGY: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J.D. Vance (HarperCollins; $27.99) * New on list this week
PAPERBACK FICTION Bay Area
1. PACHINKO Min Jin Lee (Grand Central; $17.99) 2. THE SYMPATHIZER Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press; $16) 3. MILK AND HONEY Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel; $14.99) 4. THE HANDMAID’S TALE Margaret Atwood (Anchor; $15.95) 5. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Andre Aciman (Picador; $17) 6. READY PLAYER ONE Ernest Cline (Broadway; $16) 7. ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE Anthony Doerr (Scribner; $17) 8. THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel; $16.99) 9. HOMEGOING Yaa Gyasi (Vintage; $16) 10. A MAN CALLED OVE Fredrik Backman (Washington Square; $16) NONFICTION Bay Area 1. BEING MORTAL: Medicine and What Matters in the End Atul Gawande (Picador USA; $16) 2. THE SOUL OF AN OCTOPUS Sy Montgomery (Atria; $16) 3. EVICTED Matthew Desmond (Broadway; $17) 4. ON TYRANNY Timothy Snyder (Vintage; $16.95) 5. THE UNDOING PROJECT Michael Lewis (Norton; $16.95) 6. THE TELOMERE EFFECT: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, Dr. Elissa Epel (Grand Central; $17.99) 7. YOU ARE A BADASS Jen Sincero (Running Press; $16) 8. SOUTH AND WEST: From a Notebook * Joan Didion (Vintage; $15) 9. SEASON OF THE WITCH: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love David Talbot (Free Press; $17) 10. MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books; $12.95)
FICTION National
1. THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel; $16.99) 2. MILK AND HONEY Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel; $14.99) 3. READY PLAYER ONE Ernest Cline (Broadway; $16) 4. DARKER E. L. James (Vintage; $15.95) 5. WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES * Georgia Hunter (Penguin; $16) 6. HANDMAID’S TALE Margaret Atwood (Anchor; $15.95) 7. LILAC GIRLS Martha Hall Kelly (Ballantine; $17) 8. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME * Andre Aciman (Picador; $17) 9. THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 Ruth Ware (Scout; $16) 10. THE WOMEN IN THE CASTLE * Jessica Shattuck (Morrow; $26.99) NONFICTION National 1. HORSE SOLDIERS Doug Stanton (Scribner; $18) 2. EVICTED Matthew Desmond (Broadway; $17) 3. BEING MORTAL: Medicine and What Matters in the End Atul Gawande (Picador; $16) 4. COLLUSION Luke Harding (Vintage; $16.95) 5. THINKING, FAST AND SLOW Daniel Kahneman (FS&G; $17) 6. THE GLASS CASTLE Jeannette Walls (Scribner; $17) 7. THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD Douglas Preston (Grand Central; $15.99) 8. THE POWER OF HABIT Charles Duhigg (Random House; $17) 9. ON TYRANNY: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century Timothy Snyder (Tim Duggan; $7.99) 10. THE NEW JIM CROW Michelle Alexander (New Press; $19.95)
Bay Area rankings based on sales in independent bookstores in the Bay Area during the week ending Monday, Jan. 15. Rankings provided by the American Booksellers Association and Northern California Independent Booksellers Association.