San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLERS Jan. 24
HARDCOVER
FICTION Bay Area
1. THE VANISHING HALF
Brit Bennett (Riverhead Books; $27)
2. THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY
Matt Haig (Viking; $26)
3. READY PLAYER TWO
Ernest Cline (Ballantine; $28.99)
4. THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE
V.E. Schwab (Tor; $26.99)
5. HAMNET *
Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf; $26.95)
6. THE SEARCHER
Tana French (Viking; $27)
7. ANXIOUS PEOPLE
Fredrik Backman (Atria; $28)
8. THE PROPHETS
Robert Jones Jr. (Putnam; $27)
9. MEXICAN GOTHIC
Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; $27)
10. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
Delia Owens (Putnam; $26)
NONFICTION Bay Area
1. A PROMISED LAND
Barack Obama (Crown; $45)
2. CASTE: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson (Random House; $32)
3. A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN *
George Saunders (Random House; $28)
4. UNTAMED
Glennon Doyle (The Dial Press; $28)
5. THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE
Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne; $22.99)
6. SPIRITS OF SAN FRANCISCO: Voyages Through the Unknown City
Gary Kamiya (Bloomsbury Publishing; $28)
7. MODERN COMFORT FOOD
Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter; $35)
8. GREENLIGHTS
Matthew McConaughey (Crown; $30)
9. WINTERING
Katherine May (Riverhead Books; $24)
10. BREATH
James Nestor (Riverhead Books; $28)
PAPERBACK
FICTION Bay Area
1. THE DUTCH HOUSE
Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial; $17)
2. INTERIOR CHINATOWN
Charles Yu (Vintage; $16)
3. CIRCE
Madeline Miller (Back Bay; $16.99)
4. SHUGGIE BAIN
Douglas Stuart (Grove Press; $17)
5. HOME BODY
Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel; $16.99)
6. THE SONG OF ACHILLES
Madeline Miller (Ecco; $16.99)
7. THE OVERSTORY
Richard Powers (Norton; $18.95)
8. PARABLE OF THE SOWER *
Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central; $16.99)
9. THE ALCHEMIST *
Paulo Coelho (HarperOne; $16.99)
10. NORMAL PEOPLE
Sally Rooney (Hogarth; $17)
NONFICTION Bay Area
1. BRAIDING SWEETGRASS
Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions; $18)
2. ON TYRANNY
Timothy (Tim Duggan Books; $9.99)
3. SAPIENS: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari (Harper Perennial; $24.99)
4. THE TRUTHS WE HOLD
Kamala Harris (Penguin; $18)
5. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE
Bessel van der Kolk (Penguin; $19)
6. MY GRANDMOTHER’S HANDS
Resmaa Menakem (Central Recovery Press; $17.95)
7. MY OWN WORDS
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (S&S; $18)
8. ALL ABOUT LOVE *
Bell Hooks (Morrow; $15.99)
9. ALL THAT THE RAIN PROMISES AND MORE *
David Arora (Ten Speed Press; $17.99)
10. QUIT LIKE A WOMAN *
Holly Whitaker (Dial Press; $18)
Bay Area rankings based on sales in independent bookstores in the Bay Area during the week that ended Monday, Jan. 18. Rankings provided by the American Booksellers Association and Northern California Independent Booksellers Association.
* New on list this week