Best-sellers
Data from the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association for the week ending Oct. 1:
FICTION
1. A Legacy of Spies: John le Carré 2. My Absolute Darling: Gabriel Tallent
3. A Gentleman in Moscow: Amor Towles
4. Little Fires Everywhere: Celeste Ng
5. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: David Lagercrantz 6. Forest Dark: Nicole Krauss 7. Sing, Unburied, Sing: Jesmyn Ward 8. The Golden House: Salman Rushdie 9. Glass Houses: Louise Penny 10. A Column of Fire: Ken Follett
NONFICTION
1. What Happened: Hillary Rodham Clinton
2. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry: Neil deGrasse Tyson
3. The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck: Mark Manson
4. Braving the Wilderness: Brene Brown
5. Hillbilly Elegy: J.D. Vance 6. Fantasyland: Kurt Andersen
7. Coming to My Senses — The Making of a Counterculture Cook: Alice Waters
8. Unbelievable: Katy Tur
9. Why Buddhism Is True:
Robert Wright
10. Between the World and Me: Ta-Nehisi Coates
TRADE FICTION
1. The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood
2. Homegoing: Yaa Gyasi 3. Milk and Honey: Rupi Kaur
4. All the Light We Cannot See: Anthony Doerr
5. The Girl from Venice: Martin Cruz Smith 6. Commonwealth: Ann
Patchett 7. It: Stephen King
8. The Sympathizer: Viet
Thanh Nguyen 9. A Man Called Ove: Fredrik Backman
10. The Woman in Cabin 10: Ruth Ware
TRADE NONFICTION
1. Being Mortal: Atul Gawande 2. SnyderOn Tyranny: Timothy 3. Evicted: Matthew Desmond 4. Born to Run: Bruce Springsteen 5. The Glass Castle: Jeannette Walls 6. Hero of the Empire: Candice Millard 7. The Soul of an Octopus: Sy Montgomery
8. The Four Agreements — A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom: Don Miguel Ruiz 9. You Are a Badass: Jen Sincero
10. The Lion in the Living Room: Abigail Tucker