San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
HARDCOVER PAPERBACK
FICTION Bay Area
1. DEMON
COPPERHEAD
CURIOSITIES
Barbara Kingsolver (Harper, $32.50)
2. LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday, $29)
3. A WORLD OF
Louise Penny (Minotaur, $29.99)
4. STELLA MARIS *
Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, $26) 5. HORSE
Geraldine Brooks (Viking, $28)
6. THE PASSENGER
Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, $30)
7. TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW
Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf, $28)
7. OUR MISSING HEARTS
Celeste Ng (Penguin Press, $29)
8. A DANGEROUS BUSINESS *
Jane Smiley (Knopf, $28)
9. TRUST
Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books, $28)
10. DESERT STAR
Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $29) * New on list this week
Bay Area rankings based on sales in independent bookstores in the Bay Area during the week that ended Monday, Dec. 12. Rankings provided by the American Booksellers Association and Northern California Independent Booksellers Association.
NONFICTION Bay Area
1. THE LIGHT WE CARRY: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Michelle Obama (Crown, $32.50)
2. AN IMMENSE WORLD: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around
Us
Ed Yong (Random House, $30)
3. A BOOK OF DAYS
Patti Smith (Random House, $28.99)
4. GO-TO DINNERS: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter, $35)
5. I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED
Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster, $27.99)
6. THE SONG OF THE CELL: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner, $32.50)
7. WHAT IF? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe (Riverhead Books, $30)
8. THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG
Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster, $45)
9. SMITTEN KITCHEN KEEPERS: New Classics for Your Forever Files
Deb Perelman (Knopf, $35)
10. DINNER IN ONE: Exceptional & Easy One-Pan Meals
Melissa Clark (Clarkson Potter, $29.99)
Bay Area
1. CLOUD CUCKOO LAND
Anthony Doerr (Scribner, $20) 2. THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO
Taylor Jenkins Reid (Washington Square Press, $17)
3. IT STARTS WITH US
Colleen Hoover (Atria, $17.99)
4. THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
Richard Osman (Penguin, $17)
5. THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2022
Andrew Sean Greer, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.) (Mariner, $17.99)
6. IT ENDS WITH US
Colleen Hoover (Atria, $16.99)
7. CIRCE
Madeline Miller (Back Bay, $16.99)
8. BEWILDERMENT
Richard Powers (Norton, $17.95)
9. PROJECT HAIL MARY
Andy Weir (Ballantine, $20)
10. THE SENTENCE
Louise Erdrich (Harper Perennial, $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. ALL ABOUT LOVE: New Visions
bell hooks (Morrow, $15.99)
4. ALL ABOUT ME!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
Mel Brooks (Ballantine, $20)
5. THESE PRECIOUS DAYS: Essays
Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial, $18)
6. SPIRITS OF SAN FRANCISCO: Voyages Through the Unknown City
Gary Kamiya, Paul Madonna (Illus.) (Bloomsbury Publishing, $18)
7. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. (Penguin, $19)
8. THE YEARS
Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer (Transl.) (Seven Stories Press, $19.95)
9. ENTANGLED LIFE: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake (Random House, $18)
10. TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS (10th Anniversary Edition): Advice From Dear Sugar *
Cheryl Strayed (Vintage, $17)