The Northern California Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and 
NCIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, September 14, 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. The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell, Random House, $30, 9781400065677
2. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $25.95, 9780385352109
3. The Children Act
Ian McEwan, Nan A. Talese, $25, 9780385539708
4. Personal
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780804178747
5. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27, 9781476746586
6. The Secret Place
Tana French, Viking, $27.95, 9780670026326
7. The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, Little Brown, $30, 9780316055437
8. Perfidia
James Ellroy, Knopf, $28.95, 9780307956996
9. Adultery
Paulo Coelho, Knopf, $24.95, 9781101874080
10. The Long Way Home
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $27.99, 9781250022066
11. We Are Not Ourselves
Matthew Thomas, S&S, $28, 9781476756660
12. The Book of Life
Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95, 9780670025596
13. 10:04
Ben Lerner, Faber & Faber, $25, 9780865478107
14. California
Edan Lepucki, Little Brown, $26, 9780316250818
15. Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, Knopf, $24.95, 9780385353304
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. What If?
Randall Munroe, Houghton Mifflin, $24, 9780544272996
2. What I Know for Sure
Oprah Winfrey, Flatiron, $24.99, 9781250054050
3. The Organized Mind
Daniel J. Levitin, Dutton, $27.95, 9780525954187
4. Diary of a Mad Diva
Joan Rivers, Berkley, $26.95, 9780425269022
5. Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book
Diane Muldrow, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307977618
6. World Order
Henry Kissinger, Penguin Press, $36, 9781594206146
7. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris, S&S, $26, 9781451636017
8. The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
Greil Marcus, Yale University Press, $28, 9780300187373
9. Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
Gary Kamiya, Bloomsbury, $27, 9781608199600
10. How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
Anne Berest, et al., Doubleday, $25, 9780385538657
11. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast, Bloomsbury, $28, 9781608198061
12. Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success: Discovering Your Gift and the Way to Life's Riches
Steve Harvey, Amistad Press, $25.99, 9780062220325
13. A Spy Among Friends
Ben Macintyre, Crown, $27, 9780804136631
14. So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
Maureen Corrigan, Little Brown, $26, 9780316230070
15. The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us
Diane Ackerman, Norton, $27.95, 9780393240740
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Broadway, $15, 9780553418361
2. Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $15.95, 9780307455925
3. The Circle
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345807298
4. The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion, S&S, $15.99, 9781476729091
5. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $14.99, 9780062255662
6. The Signature of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $17, 9780143125846
7. An Event in Autumn
Henning Mankell, Vintage, $14.95, 9780804170642
8. This Is Where I Leave You
Jonathan Tropper, Plume, $16, 9780142181713
9. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316204262
10. Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline, Morrow, $14.99, 9780061950728
11. The Redeemer
Jo Nesbo, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307742988
12. The Alchemist (25th Anniversary Edition)
Paulo Coelho, Amy Jurskis, HarperOne, $16.99, 9780062315007
13. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $18, 9781609452339
14. My Struggle, Book One
Karl Ove Knausgaard, FSG, $16, 9780374534141
15. Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan, Anchor, $15, 9780345803788
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17, 9780143125471
2. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $16, 9780812974492
3. Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307476074
4. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Reza Aslan, Random House, $18, 9780812981483
5. Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062282712
6. Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $17, 9780316154703
7. Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love
David Talbot, Free Press, $17, 9781439108246
8. One Summer: America, 1927
Bill Bryson, Anchor, $16.95, 9780767919418
9. Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
Vikram Chandra, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781555976859
10. Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket, $11.95, 9781608463862
11. How to Sit
Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press, $9.95, 9781937006587
12. Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
Nick Offerman, NAL, $15, 9780451467096
13. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo, Random House, $16, 9780812979329
14. What We See When We Read
Peter Mendelsund, Vintage, $16.95, 9780804171632
15. Cooked
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $17, 9780143125334
 
MASS MARKET
1. Outlander
Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $9.99, 9780553393699
2. Sycamore Row
John Grisham, Dell, $9.99, 9780345543240
3. W Is for Wasted
Sue Grafton, Berkley, $7.99, 9780425271575
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $6.99, 9780345514400
5. A Dance With Dragons
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553582017
6. Dragonfly in Amber
Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $9.99, 9780440215622
7. Never Go Back
Lee Child, Dell, $9.99, 9780440246329
8. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
9. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $8.99, 9780316769488
10. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Broadway, $9.99, 9780553418354
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. The Maze Runner
James Dashner, Delacorte, $10.99, 9780385385206
2. Sisters
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545540605
3. Minecraft: Combat Handbook
Scholastic, $7.99, 9780545685160
4. If I Stay
Gayle Forman, Speak, $10.99, 9780147514530
5. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Harcourt, $9.99, 9780544340688
6. The Fault in Our Stars
John Green, Speak, $12.99, 9780142424179
7. Escape from Lucien (Amulet, #6)
Kazu Kibuishi, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545433150
8. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
9. Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000
Dav Pilkey, Scholastic, $9.99, 9780545504904
10. Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $15, 9780385382984
11. Minecraft: Essential Handbook
Scholastic, $7.99, 9780545669931
12. The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel, $17.99, 9780399255373
13. Return of the Padawan (Star Wars: Jedi Academy, Book 2)
Jeffrey Brown, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545621250
14. The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, Book 2)
James Dashner, Ember, $9.99, 9780385738767
15. Uni the Unicorn
Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Random House, $17.99, 9780385375559
16. Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar
Keith Richards, Theodora Richards (Illus.), Little Brown, $18, 9780316320658
17. Where She Went
Gayle Forman, Speak, $10.99, 9780142420898
18. Looking for Alaska
John Green, Speak, $9.99, 9780142402511
19. Otis and the Scarecrow
Loren Long, Philomel, $17.99, 9780399163968
20. Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
Rick Riordan, John Rocco (Illus.), Hyperion, $24.99, 9781423183648
21. Emperor Pickletine Rides the Bus (Origami Yoda)
Tom Angleberger, Amulet, $13.95, 9781419709333
22. Wonder
R.J. Palacio, Knopf, $16.99, 9780375869020
23. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Puffin, $6.99, 9780142501122
24. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
25. Minecraft: Redstone Handbook
Scholastic, $7.99, 9780545685153