The Mercury News

Northern California Best-sellers

Data from the Northern California Independen­t Bookseller­s Associatio­n for the week ending July 31.

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FICTION

1. The Girls by Emma Cline 2. Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers 3. Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty 4. Sweetbitte­r by Stephanie Danler 5. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 6. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 7. Barkskins by Annie Proulx 8. The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney 9. The Black Widow by Daniel Silva 10. Undergroun­d Airlines by Ben Winters

NONFICTION

1. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 2. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo 3. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovell 5. Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach 6. Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter 7. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez 8. White Trash by Nancy Isenberg 9. Tribe by Sebastian Junger 10. Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

TRADE FICTION

1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 2. The Sympathize­r by Viet Thanh Nguyen 3. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 4. The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende 5. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George 6. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 7. My Grandmothe­r Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman 8. The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny 9. After You by Jojo Moyes 10. Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

TRADE NONFICTION

1. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan 2. The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery 3. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari 4. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow 5. H Is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald 6. Dead Wake by Erik Larson 7. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown 8. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson 9. Season of the Witch: Enchantmen­t, Terror, and Deliveranc­e in the City of Love by David Talbot 10. Yuge!: 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump by G.B. Trudeau

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