The Mercury News

Best-sellers

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Data from the Northern California Independen­t Bookseller­s Associatio­n for the week ending Dec. 24.

FICTION

1. A Gentleman in Moscow: Amor Towles

2. Lincoln in the Bardo: George Saunders

3. Artemis: Andy Weir

4. Manhattan Beach:

Jennifer Egan 5. Uncommon Type: Tom Hanks

6. Sing, Unburied, Sing: Jesmyn Ward

7. Origin: Dan Brown

8. Little Fires Everywhere: Celeste Ng

9. In the Midst of Winter: Isabel Allende

10. Devotions: Mary Oliver

NONFICTION

1. Obama: An Intimate Portrait: Pete Souza 2. Leonardo da Vinci: Walter Isaacson

3. Astrophysi­cs for People in a Hurry:

Neil de Grasse Tyson 4. Grant: Ron Chernow 5. Atlas Obscura: Joshua Foer, et al. 6. Born a Crime: Trevor Noah

7. We Were Eight Years in Power: TaNehisi Coates 8. Sapiens: Yuval

Noah Harari

9. Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit: Chris Matthews 10. The Book of Joy:

The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu

TRADE FICTION

1. Ready Player One: Ernest Cline 2. The Sympathize­r: Viet Thanh Nguyen

3. All the Light We Cannot See: Anthony Doerr

4. The Sun and Her Flowers: Rupi Kaur

5. Pachinko: Min Jin Lee 6. A Man Called Ove: Fredrik Backman 7. The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho

8. The Best American Short Stories 2017: Meg Wolitzer, Heidi Pitlor, editors

9. Milk and Honey:

Rupi Kaur 10. Homegoing: Yaa Gyasi

TRADE NONFICTION

1. The Undoing Project: Michael Lewis

2. The Soul of an Octopus: Sy Montgomery

3. Being Mortal: Atul Gawande

4. The Genius of Birds: Jennifer Ackerman

5. Thank You for Being Late: Thomas L. Friedman

6. Golden: The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry: Marcus Thompson

7. We Should All Be Feminists: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

8. Holidays on Ice:

David Sedaris 9. Barbarian Days: William Finnegan

10. Season of the Witch: Enchantmen­t, Terror, and Deliveranc­e in the City of Love: David Talbot

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