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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST-SELLERS
Bay Area rankings for Nov. 6
HARDCOVER
FICTION Bay Area
1. THE
PASSENGER *
Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, $30)
2. DEMON COPPERHEAD Barbara Kingsolver (Harper, $32.50)
3. OUR MISSING
HEARTS
Celeste Ng (Penguin Press, $29)
4. LIBERATION DAY: Stories
George Saunders (Random House, $28)
5. FAIRY TALE
Stephen King (Scribner, $32.50)
6. HORSE
Geraldine Brooks (Viking, $28)
7. NO PLAN B *
Lee Child, Andrew Child (Delacorte Press, $28.99)
8. THE BOYS FROM BILOXI
John Grisham (Doubleday, $29.95)
9. LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday, $29)
10. THE LAST CHAIRLIFT
John Irving (Simon & Schuster, $38)
NONFICTION Bay Area
1. I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED
Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster, $27.99)
2. GO-TO DINNERS: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook *
Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter, $35)
3. THE MYTH OF NORMAL: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Gabor Maté, M.D., Daniel Maté (Avery, $30)
4. WHAT IF? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe (Riverhead Books, $30)
5. SOLITO: A Memoir
Javier Zamora (Hogarth, $28)
6. THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF AN ORDINARY MAN: A Memoir
Paul Newman (Knopf, $32)
7. AND THERE WAS LIGHT: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jon Meacham (Random House, $40)
8. DINNERS WITH RUTH: A Memoir on the Power of Friendship
Nina Totenberg (Simon & Schuster, $27.99)
9. THE SONG OF THE CELL: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human *
Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner, $32.50) 10. STARRY MESSENGER: Cosmic
Perspectives on Civilization *
Neil deGrasse Tyson (Henry Holt and Co., $28.99)
PAPERBACK
FICTION Bay Area
1. IT STARTS
WITH US
Colleen Hoover (Atria, $17.99)
2. CLOUD CUCKOO LAND Anthony Doerr (Scribner, $20)
3. THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO
Taylor Jenkins Reid (Washington Square Press, $17)
4. THE SENTENCE
Louise Erdrich (Harper Perennial, $18)
5. PROJECT HAIL MARY
Andy Weir (Ballantine, $20)
6. THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN *
Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray (Berkley, $17)
7. OH WILLIAM!
Elizabeth Strout (Random House, $18)
8. IT ENDS WITH US
Colleen Hoover (Atria, $16.99)
9. A LINE TO KILL *
Anthony Horowitz (Harper Perennial, $18)
10. WHERE THE CRAWDADS
SING
Delia Owens (Putnam, $18)
NONFICTION Bay Area
1. BRAIDING SWEETGRASS: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions, $20)
2. FUZZ: When Nature Breaks the Law
Mary Roach (Norton, $16.95)
3. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. (Penguin, $19)
4. ZEN AND THE ART OF SAVING THE PLANET
Thich Nhat Hanh (HarperOne, $17.99)
5. ALL ABOUT LOVE: New Visions
bell hooks (Morrow, $15.99)
6. HOW TO FOCUS (Mindfulness Essentials #9) *
Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press, $9.95)
7. FINDING THE MOTHER TREE: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Suzanne Simard (Vintage, $17)
8. ORWELL’S ROSES
Rebecca Solnit (Penguin Books, $18)
9. THE SECRET NETWORK OF NATURE: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things — Stories From Science and Observation *
Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books, $17.95)
10. EJACULATE RESPONSIBLY: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion
Gabrielle Blair (Workman, $14.99)