The Northern California Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and 
NCIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, August 24, 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. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $25.95, 9780385352109
2. The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, Little Brown, $30, 9780316055437
3. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27, 9781476746586
4. California
Edan Lepucki, Little Brown, $26, 9780316250818
5. The Magician's Land
Lev Grossman, Viking, $27.95, 9780670015672
6. We Are Not Ourselves
Matthew Thomas, S&S, $28, 9781476756660
7. The Silkworm
Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling, Mulholland, $28, 9780316206877
8. Adultery
Paulo Coelho, Knopf, $24.95, 9781101874080
9. Lucky Us
Amy Bloom, Random House, $26, 9781400067244
10. The Book of Life
Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95, 9780670025596
11. The Heist
Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99, 9780062320056
12. Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $26.95, 9780399167065
13. Sweetness #9
Stephan Eirik Clark, Little Brown, $26, 9780316278751
14. The Husband's Secret
Liane Moriarty, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $25.95, 9780399159343
15. The Vacationers
Emma Straub, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594631573
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book
Diane Muldrow, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307977618
2. A Spy Among Friends
Ben Macintyre, Crown, $27, 9780804136631
3. The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Daniel J. Levitin, Dutton, $27.95, 9780525954187
4. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast, Bloomsbury, $28, 9781608198061
5. Carsick
John Waters, FSG, $26, 9780374298630
6. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty, Belknap Press, $39.95, 9780674430006
7. #Girlboss
Sophia Amoruso, Portfolio, $26.95, 9780399169274
8. I Knead My Mommy
Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle, $12.95, 9781452132914
9. Goodnight Darth Vader
Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, $14.95, 9781452128306
10. In the Kingdom of Ice
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535373
11. David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $29, 9780316204361
12. Flash Boys
Michael Lewis, Norton, $27.95, 9780393244663
13. My Drunk Kitchen
Hannah Hart, Dey Street Books, $22.99, 9780062293039
14. Hard Choices
Hillary Rodham Clinton, S&S, $35, 9781476751443
15. Lean In
Sheryl Sandberg, Knopf, $24.95, 9780385349949
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion, S&S, $15.99, 9781476729091
2. Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $15.95, 9780307455925
3. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Broadway, $15, 9780307588371
4. The Valley of Amazement
Amy Tan, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062107329
5. The Circle
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345807298
6. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316204262
7. An Event in Autumn
Henning Mankell, Vintage, $14.95, 9780804170642
8. Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan, Anchor, $15, 9780345803788
9. The Signature of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $17, 9780143125846
10. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $14.99, 9780062255662
11. The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307278265
12. Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline, Morrow, $14.99, 9780061950728
13. The Hundred-Foot Journey
Richard C. Morais, Scribner, $15, 9781476765853
14. Me Before You
Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16, 9780143124542
15. My Struggle, Book One
Karl Ove Knausgaard, FSG, $16, 9780374534141
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17, 9780143125471
2. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $16, 9780812974492
3. Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $17, 9780316154703
4. Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307476074
5. Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket, $11.95, 9781608463862
6. Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love
David Talbot, Free Press, $17, 9781439108246
7. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Mindy Kaling, Three Rivers, $14, 9780307886279
8. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo, Random House, $16, 9780812979329
9. Orange Is the New Black
Piper Kerman, Spiegel & Grau, $16, 9780812986181
10. What We See When We Read
Peter Mendelsund, Vintage, $16.95, 9780804171632
11. Lawrence in Arabia
Scott Anderson, Anchor, $17.95, 9780307476418
12. The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
Margaret MacMillan, Random House, $20, 9780812980660
13. The French House
Don Wallace, Sourcebooks, $14.99, 9781402293313
14. Show Your Work!
Austin Kleon, Workman, $11.95, 9780761178972
15. Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Russell Shorto, Vintage, $16.95, 9780307743756
 
MASS MARKET 
1. Outlander
Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $9.99, 9780553393699
2. W Is for Wasted
Sue Grafton, Berkley, $7.99, 9780425271575
3. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $8.99, 9780316769488
4. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Grand Central, $8.99, 9780446310789
6. Sycamore Row
John Grisham, Dell, $9.99, 9780345543240
7. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $6.99, 9780345514400
8. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
9. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Merriam-Webster, $6.50, 9780877799306
10. A Clash of Kings
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780345535429
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES
1. If I Stay
Gayle Forman, Speak, $10.99, 9780147514530
2. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Harcourt, $9.99, 9780544340688
3. The Maze Runner
James Dashner, Delacorte, $10.99, 9780385385206
4. The Fault in Our Stars
John Green, Speak, $12.99, 9780142424179
5. Return of the Padawan (Star Wars: Jedi Academy, Book 2)
Jeffrey Brown, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545621250
6. Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
Rick Riordan, John Rocco (Illus.), Hyperion, $24.99, 9781423183648
7. Emperor Pickletine Rides the Bus (Origami Yoda)
Tom Angleberger, Amulet, $13.95, 9781419709333
8. Sisters
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545540605
9. The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel, $17.99, 9780399255373
10. Minecraft: Essential Handbook
Scholastic, $7.99, 9780545669931
11. Divergent
Veronica Roth, Katherine Tegen Books, $9.99, 9780062289858
12. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
13. Four: A Divergent Collection
Veronica Roth, Katherine Tegen Books, $17.99, 9780062345219
14. Minecraft: Combat Handbook
Scholastic, $7.99, 9780545685160
15. Frozen (Little Golden Book)
Victoria Saxon, Grace Lee (Illus.), Random House/Disney, $3.99, 9780736430517
16. Good Night San Francisco
Adam Gamble, Santiago Cohen (Illus.), Our World of Books, $9.95, 9780977797950
17. Minecraft: Redstone Handbook
Scholastic, $7.99, 9780545685153
18. The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, Book 2)
James Dashner, Ember, $9.99, 9780385738767
19. Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
Veronica Roth, Katherine Tegen Books, $17.99, 9780062024046
20. Looking for Alaska
John Green, Speak, $9.99, 9780142402511
21. Wonder
R.J. Palacio, Knopf, $15.99, 9780375869020
22. Where She Went
Gayle Forman, Speak, $10.99, 9780142420898
23. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99, 9781423134947
24. The Death Cure (The Maze Runner, Book 3)
James Dashner, Delacorte, $9.99, 9780385738781
25. The School for Good and Evil
Soman Chainani, Harper, $6.99, 9780062104908