SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLERS

HARDCOVER FICTION Bay Area

1. THE VANISHING HALF

Brit Bennett ( Riverhead Books; $ 27)

2. READY PLAYER TWO

Ernest Cline ( Ballantine; $ 28.99)

3. HAMNET

Maggie O’Farrell ( Knopf; $ 26.95)

4. TRANSCENDENT

KINGDOM

Yaa Gyasi ( Knopf; $ 27.95)

5. THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY

Matt Haig ( Viking; $ 26)

6. THE SEARCHER

Tana French ( Viking; $ 27)

7. ANXIOUS PEOPLE

Fredrik Backman ( Atria; $ 28)

8. MEXICAN GOTHIC

Silvia Moreno- Garcia ( Del Rey; $ 27)

9. THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS

Elena Ferrante ( Europa Editions; $ 26)

10. HOMELAND ELEGIES

Ayad Akhtar ( Little, Brown; $ 28)

NONFICTION Bay Area

1. A PROMISED LAND

Barack Obama ( Crown; $ 45)

2. CASTE: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson ( Random House; $ 32)

3. THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE

Charlie Mackesy ( HarperOne;

$ 22.99)

4. BAG MAN

Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz ( Crown; $ 28)

5. THE BEST OF ME

David Sedaris ( Little, Brown; $ 30)

6. THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE

Erik Larson ( Crown; $ 32)

7. SPIRITS OF SAN FRANCISCO

Gary Kamiya, Paul Madonna ( Illus.) ( Bloomsbury Publishing; $ 28)

8. THE 99% INVISIBLE CITY

Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $ 30)

9. UNTAMED

Glennon Doyle ( The Dial Press; $ 28)

10. MODERN COMFORT FOOD

Ina Garten ( Clarkson Potter; $ 35)

PAPERBACK FICTION Bay Area

1. SHUGGIE BAIN

Douglas Stuart ( Grove Press; $ 17)

2. THE OVERSTORY

Richard Powers ( Norton; $ 18.95)

3. INTERIOR CHINATOWN

Charles Yu ( Vintage; $ 16)

4. CIRCE

Madeline Miller ( Back Bay; $ 16.99)

5. THE WATER DANCER

Ta- Nehisi Coates ( One World; $ 18)

6. HOME BODY

Rupi Kaur ( Andrews McMeel; $ 16.99)

7. THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT

Walter Tevis ( Vintage; $ 16.95)

8. DEVOTIONS

Mary Oliver ( Penguin; $ 20)

9. HOMEGOING

Yaa Gyasi ( Vintage; $ 16.95)

10. THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2020

Curtis Sittenfeld, Heidi Pitlor ( Eds.) ( Mariner; $ 16.99)

NONFICTION Bay Area

1. BRAIDING SWEETGRASS

Robin Wall Kimmerer ( Milkweed Editions; $ 18)

2. THE TRUTHS WE HOLD

Kamala Harris ( Penguin; $ 18)

3. SAPIENS: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari ( Harper Perennial; $ 24.99)

4. MY OWN WORDS

Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( S& S; $ 18)

5. BORN A CRIME

Trevor Noah ( One World; $ 18)

6. THE FORESTS OF CALIFORNIA: A California Field Atlas

Obi Kaufmann ( Heyday Books; $ 55)

7. SAPIENS: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind ( Vol. 1)

Yuval Noah Harari ( Harper Perennial; $ 25.99)

8. CONVERSATIONS WITH RGB

Jeffrey Rosen ( Picador; $ 18)

9. THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS

Isabel Wilkerson ( Vintage; $ 17.95)

10. DEAR GIRLS

Ali Wong ( Random House; $ 18)