The Northern California Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and 
NCIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, July 27, 2014. Based on reporting from the 
independent booksellers of the Northern California Independent Booksellers 
Association and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit 
IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION 
1. California
Edan Lepucki, Little Brown, $26, 9780316250818
2. The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, Little Brown, $30, 9780316055437
3. The Book of Life
Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95, 9780670025596
4. The Vacationers
Emma Straub, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594631573
5. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27, 9781476746586
6. The Silkworm
Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling, Mulholland, $28, 9780316206877
7. The Heist
Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99, 9780062320056
8. Midnight in Europe
Alan Furst, Random House, $27, 9781400069491
9. A Wedding in Provence
Ellen Sussman, Ballantine, $25, 9780345548955
10. The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd, Viking, $27.95, 9780670024780
11. Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Diana Gabaldon, Delacorte, $35, 9780385344432
12. The Care and Management of Lies
Jacqueline Winspear, Harper, $26.99, 9780062220509
13. The Martian
Andy Weir, Crown, $24, 9780804139021
14. William Shakespeare's Star Wars
Ian Doescher, Quirk, $14.95, 9781594746376
15. Mr. Mercedes
Stephen King, Scribner, $30, 9781476754451
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Hard Choices
Hillary Rodham Clinton, S&S, $35, 9781476751443
2. Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book
Diane Muldrow, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307977618
3. #Girlboss
Sophia Amoruso, Portfolio, $26.95, 9780399169274
4. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty, Belknap Press, $39.95, 9780674430006
5. The Mockingbird Next Door
Marja Mills, Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594205194
6. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast, Bloomsbury, $28, 9781608198061
7. Carsick
John Waters, FSG, $26, 9780374298630
8. Cool Gray City of Love
Gary Kamiya, Bloomsbury, $27, 9781608199600
9. David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $29, 9780316204361
10. Think Like a Freak
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Morrow, $28.99, 9780062218339
11. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $28, 9781400064168
12. Flash Boys
Michael Lewis, Norton, $27.95, 9780393244663
13. Blue Mind
Wallace J. Nichols, Little Brown, $27, 9780316252089
14. Deep
James Nestor, Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 9780547985527
15. Distant Neighbors
Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, Counterpoint, $30, 9781619023055
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Broadway, $15, 9780307588371
2. Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $15.95, 9780307455925
3. The Valley of Amazement
Amy Tan, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062107329
4. The Signature of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $17, 9780143125846
5. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316204262
6. The Circle
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345807298
7. The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion, S&S, $15.99, 9781476729091
8. And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $16, 9781594632389
9. Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan, Anchor, $15, 9780345803788
10. Police
Jo Nesbo, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307951168
11. The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307278265
12. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $14.99, 9780062255662
13. Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline, Morrow, $14.99, 9780061950728
14. My Struggle, Book One
Karl Ove Knausgaard, FSG, $16, 9780374534141
15. Longbourn
Jo Baker, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345806970
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17, 9780143125471
2. Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $17, 9780316154703
3. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo, Random House, $16, 9780812979329
4. Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307476074
5. Orange Is the New Black
Piper Kerman, Spiegel & Grau, $16, 9780812986181
6. Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $11.95, 9781608463862
7. Lawrence in Arabia
Scott Anderson, Anchor, $17.95, 9780307476418
8. One Summer: America, 1927
Bill Bryson, Anchor, $16.95, 9780767919418
9. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Mindy Kaling, Three Rivers, $14, 9780307886279
10. Season of the Witch
David Talbot, Free Press, $17, 9781439108246
11. Quiet
Susan Cain, Broadway, $16, 9780307352156
12. Meanwhile, in San Francisco: The City in Its Own Words
Wendy MacNaughton, Chronicle, $18.95, 9781452113890
13. The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger, $16.95, 9781572245372
14. Cooked
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $17, 9780143125334
15. The French House: An American Family, a Ruined Maison, and the Village That Restored Them All
Don Wallace, Sourcebooks, $14.99, 9781402293313
 
MASS MARKET 
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $6.99, 9780345514400
2. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
3. A Dance With Dragons
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553582017
4. A Clash of Kings
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780345535429
5. Never Go Back
Lee Child, Dell, $9.99, 9780440246329
6. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $8.99, 9780756404741
7. Outlander
Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $9.99, 9780553393699
8. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
9. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $8.99, 9780316769488
10. A Storm of Swords
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780345543981
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES
1. The Fault in Our Stars
John Green, Speak, $12.99, 9780142424179
2. If I Stay
Gayle Forman, Speak, $10.99, 9780147514530
3. Four: A Divergent Collection
Veronica Roth, Katherine Tegen Books, $17.99, 9780062345219
4. Looking for Alaska
John Green, Speak, $9.99, 9780142402511
5. Minecraft: Essential Handbook
Scholastic, $7.99, 9780545669931
6. The Maze Runner
James Dashner, Delacorte, $9.99, 9780385737951
7. Minecraft: Redstone Handbook
Scholastic, $7.99, 9780545685153
8. Divergent
Veronica Roth, Katherine Tegen Books, $9.99, 9780062289858
9. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
10. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Harcourt, $9.99, 9780544340688
11. Paper Towns
John Green, Speak, $9.99, 9780142414934
12. The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel, $17.99, 9780399255373
13. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $12.99, 9780385754729
14. Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
Veronica Roth, Katherine Tegen Books, $17.99, 9780062024046
15. A Grimm Warning (The Land of Stories, #3)
Chris Colfer, Little Brown, $18, 9780316406819
16. Frozen (Big Golden Book)
Bill Scollon, Disney Storybook Artists (Illus.), Random House/Disney, $9.99, 9780736430654
17. An Abundance of Katherines
John Green, Speak, $9.99, 9780142410707
18. The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, Book 2)
James Dashner, Ember, $9.99, 9780385738767
19. Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
Veronica Roth, Katherine Tegen Books, $19.99, 9780062024060
20. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $10.99, 9781594746031
21. Wonder
R.J. Palacio, Knopf, $15.99, 9780375869020
22. The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories, #1)
Chris Colfer, Little Brown, $8, 9780316201568
23. Wildwood (The Wildwood Chronicles, Book I)
Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $8.99, 9780062024701
24. Frozen: Anna's Act of Love/Elsa's Icy Magic
Lisa Marsoli, Joey Chou (Illus.), Random House/Disney, $4.99, 9780736430616
25. Frozen: The Junior Novelization
Random House/Disney, $4.99, 9780736431187