The Northern California Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and 
NCIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, September 18, 2016. 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. Commonwealth
Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99, 9780062491794
2. The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385542364
3. Nutshell
Ian McEwan, Nan A. Talese, $24.95, 9780385542074
4. Razor Girl
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $27.95, 9780385349741
5. The Girls
Emma Cline, Random House, $27, 9780812998603
6. The Nix
Nathan Hill, Knopf, $27.95, 9781101946619
7. A Great Reckoning
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250022134
8. Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer, FSG, $28, 9780374280024
9. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Viking, $27, 9780670026197
10. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27, 9781476746586
11. Heroes of the Frontier
Dave Eggers, Knopf, $28.95, 9780451493804
12. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $26.95, 9781101947135
13. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $27.99, 9780312577223
14. The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $26, 9781501132933
15. Truly Madly Guilty
Liane Moriarty, Flatiron, $26.99, 9781250069795
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance, Harper, $27.99, 9780062300546
2. Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $30, 9781627790628
3. The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer, Gallery, $28, 9781501139888
4. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, $25, 9780812993547
5. Love Warrior
Glennon Doyle Melton, Flatiron, $25.99, 9781250075727
6. Scorched Earth: Restoring the Country After Obama
Michael Savage, Center Street, $27, 9781455568246
7. When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi, Random House, $25, 9780812988406
8. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press, $16.99, 9781607747307
9. American Heiress
Jeffrey Toobin, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385536714
10. The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $24.95, 9781771642484
11. The Pigeon Tunnel
John le Carre, Viking, $28, 9780735220775
12. White Trash
Nancy Isenberg, Viking, $28, 9780670785971
13. Being Mortal
Atul Gawande, Metropolitan, $26, 9780805095159
14. The Trainable Cat: A Practical Guide to Making Life Happier for You and Your Cat
John Bradshaw, Sarah Ellis, Basic Books, $27.99, 9780465050901
15. The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics
Maureen Dowd, Twelve, $30, 9781455539260
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $16, 9780735212152
2. A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16, 9781476738024
3. The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16, 9780802124944
4. The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George, Broadway, $16, 9780553418798
5. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16, 9781501115073
6. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609450786
7. The Japanese Lover
Isabel Allende, Atria, $16, 9781501116995
8. Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff, Riverhead, $16, 9781594634482
9. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256
10. The Alchemist (25th Anniversary Edition)
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $16.99, 9780062315007
11. The Story of a New Name
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $18, 9781609451349
12. Purity
Jonathan Franzen, Picador USA, $17, 9781250097101
13. Ready Player One
Ernest Cline, Broadway, $16, 9780307887443
14. A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin, Picador USA, $16, 9781250094735
15. The Girl in the Spider's Web
David Lagercrantz, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $16.95, 9781101872000
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631492228
2. Barbarian Days
William Finnegan, Penguin, $17, 9780143109396
3. Yuge!
G.B. Trudeau, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449481339
4. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17, 9780143125471
5. M Train
Patti Smith, Vintage, $16, 9781101910160
6. The Road to Character
David Brooks, Random House, $18, 9780812983418
7. Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20, 9780143034759
8. Modern Romance
Aziz Ansari, Penguin, $17, 9780143109259
9. H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald, Grove Press, $16, 9780802124739
10. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
David Talbot, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780062276179
11. My Life on the Road
Gloria Steinem, Random House, $18, 9780345408167
12. The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery, Atria, $16, 9781451697728
13. Dead Wake
Erik Larson, Broadway, $17, 9780307408877
14. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $16, 9780812984965
15. How to Raise an Adult
Julie Lythcott-Haims, St. Martin's Griffin, $15.99, 9781250093639
 
MASS MARKET 
1. The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $9.99, 9780735212169
2. X
Sue Grafton, Putnam, $9.99, 9781101981870
3. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062472106
4. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
5. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441172719
6. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $8.99, 9780316769488
7. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $8.99, 9780756404741
8. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
9. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $7.99, 9780345391803
10. Sully
Chesley Sullenberger, Jeffrey Zaslow, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062564320
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One & Two
J.K. Rowling, et al., Arthur A. Levine Books, $29.99, 9781338099133
2. Ghosts
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545540629
3. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $11.99, 9781594749025
4. Ada Twist, Scientist
Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Abrams, $17.95, 9781419721373
5. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.99, 9780545581608
6. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K.Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780590353427
7. Tales of the Peculiar (Companion to Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
Ransom Riggs, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $24.99, 9780399538537
8. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Puffin, $6.99, 9780142501122
9. Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books, $18.99, 9781619636071
10. Pokemon Deluxe Essential Handbook
Scholastic, $11.99, 9780545795661
11. The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories, #1)
Chris Colfer, Little Brown, $9.99, 9780316201568
12. Smile
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545132060
13. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
14. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
15. The Reader
Traci Chee, Putnam, $19.99, 9780399176777
16. Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780544772533
17. A New Class (Star Wars: Jedi Academy, #4)
Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545875738
18. Sisters
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545540605
19. Eek! Halloween!
Sandra Boynton, Workman, $6.95, 9780761193005
20. San Francisco: A Book of Numbers
Ashley Evanson, Grosset & Dunlap, $6.99, 9780448489148
21. Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $10.99, 9781594747359
22. Good Night San Francisco
Adam Gamble, Santiago Cohen (Illus.), Our World of Books, $9.95, 9780977797950
23. Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $6.99, 9780547248288
24. Kristy's Great Idea (Baby-Sitters Club Graphix, #1)
Ann M. Martin, Raina Telgemeier (Illus.), Graphix, $10.99, 9780545813877
25. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $7.99, 9780399230035