The Northern California Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and 
NCIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, November 27, 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. Swing Time
Zadie Smith, Penguin Press, $27, 9781594203985
2. Moonglow
Michael Chabon, Harper, $28.99, 9780062225559
3. The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385542364
4. Commonwealth
Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99, 9780062491794
5. Night School
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28.99, 9780804178808
6. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Viking, $27, 9780670026197
7. The Whistler
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385541190
8. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27, 9781476746586
9. Today Will Be Different
Maria Semple, Little Brown, $27, 9780316403436
10. The Wrong Side of Goodbye
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $29, 9780316225946
11. The Spy
Paulo Coelho, Knopf, $22, 9781524732066
12. The Trespasser
Tana French, Viking, $27, 9780670026333
13. No Man's Land
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $29, 9781455586516
14. Nutshell
Ian McEwan, Nan A. Talese, $24.95, 9780385542074
15. The Mistletoe Murder: And Other Stories
P.D. James, Knopf, $24, 9780451494146
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance, Harper, $27.99, 9780062300546
2. Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
Thomas L. Friedman, FSG, $28, 9780374273538
3. Atlas Obscura
Joshua Foer, et al., Workman, $35, 9780761169086
4. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, $25, 9780812993547
5. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, Spiegel & Grau, $28, 9780399588174
6. The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $24.95, 9781771642484
7. Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen, S&S, $32.50, 9781501141515
8. Our Revolution
Bernie Sanders, Thomas Dunne Books, $27, 9781250132925
9. The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests
Chris Smith, Grand Central, $30, 9781455565382
10. Absolutely on Music: Conversations
Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa, Knopf, $27.95, 9780385354349
11. Upstream
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $26, 9781594206702
12. Settle for More
Megyn Kelly, Harper, $29.99, 9780062494603
13. Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means
Michael Krasny, Morrow, $19.99, 9780062422040
14. Strangers in Their Own Land
Arlie Russell Hochschild, The New Press, $27.95, 9781620972250
15. QB: My Life Behind the Spiral
Steve Young, Jeff Benedict, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30, 9780544845763
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16, 9781476738024
2. The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16, 9780802124944
3. The Sellout
Paul Beatty, Picador USA, $16, 9781250083258
4. The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George, Broadway, $16, 9780553418798
5. The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $16, 9780735212152
6. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256
7. My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $16, 9780812979527
8. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609450786
9. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16, 9781501115073
10. Ready Player One
Ernest Cline, Broadway, $16, 9780307887443
11. The Best American Short Stories 2016
Junot Diaz, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780544582897
12. The Japanese Lover
Isabel Allende, Atria, $16, 9781501116995
13. Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff, Riverhead, $16, 9781594634482
14. The Muralist
B.A. Shapiro, Algonquin, $15.95, 9781616206437
15. The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $16.99, 9780062315007
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20, 9780143034759
2. Barbarian Days
William Finnegan, Penguin, $17, 9780143109396
3. The Road to Little Dribbling
Bill Bryson, Anchor, $16.95, 9780804172714
4. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631492228
5. Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California
Frances Dinkelspiel, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250113894
6. The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery, Atria, $16, 9781451697728
7. The Invention of Nature
Andrea Wulf, Vintage, $17, 9780345806291
8. The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, The New Press, $19.95, 9781595586438
9. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
Tim Marshall, Scribner, $17, 9781501121470
10. Yuge!
G.B. Trudeau, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449481339
11. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17, 9780143125471
12. Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
Paul Theroux, Eamon Dolan/Mariner Books, $15.95, 9780544705173
13. We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $7.95, 9781101911761
14. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016
Amy Stewart, Tim Folger (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780544748996
15. Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $12.95, 9781608464661
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2. Tricky Twenty-Two
Janet Evanovich, Bantam, $8.99, 9780345542977
3. It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis, Signet Classics, $9.99, 9780451465641
4. The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756407919
5. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $8.99, 9780756404741
6. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441172719
7. Rogue Lawyer
John Grisham, Dell, $9.99, 9780553393484
8. A Dance With Dragons
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9781101886038
9. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $9.99, 9780441478125
10. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, HarperTorch, $7.99, 9780060853983
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $13.95, 9781419723445
2. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay (Harry Potter)
J.K. Rowling, Arthur A. Levine Books, $24.99, 9781338109061
3. Ghosts
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545540629
4. Tales from a Not-So-Friendly Frenemy (Dork Diaries, #11)
Rachel Renee Russell, Aladdin, $13.99, 9781481479202
5. The Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 2)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $19.99, 9781423160922
6. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One & Two
J.K. Rowling, et al., Arthur A. Levine Books, $29.99, 9781338099133
7. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.99, 9780545581608
8. Rad Women Worldwide
Kate Schatz, Miriam Klein Stahl (Illus.), Ten Speed Press, $15.99, 9780399578861
9. Pokemon Deluxe Essential Handbook
Scholastic, $11.99, 9780545795661
10. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780590353427
11. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $11.99, 9781594749025
12. The Princess in Black Takes a Vacation
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Candlewick Press, $14.99, 9780763665128
13. Drama
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545326995
14. Little Blue Truck's Christmas
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Harcourt, $14.99, 9780544320413
15. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $16.99, 9780394800790
16. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $13.95, 9781419717017
17. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
18. We Found a Hat
Jon Klassen, Candlewick Press, $17.99, 9780763656003
19. Ada Twist, Scientist
Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Abrams Books for Young Readers, $17.95, 9781419721373
20. The Sun Is Also a Star
Nicola Yoon, Delacorte, $18.99, 9780553496680
21. Rad American Women A-Z
Kate Schatz, Miriam Klein Stahl (Illus.), City Lights Books, $14.95, 9780872866836
22. A is for Activist
Innosanto Nagara, Triangle Square, $9.99, 9781609805395
23. The Stonekeeper's Curse (Amulet, #2)
Kazu Kibuishi, Graphix, $12.99, 9780439846837
24. Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $10.99, 9781594747359
25. Roller Girl
Victoria Jamieson, Dial, $12.99, 9780803740167