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Harper: Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay

The Book Sense/SIBA List

The following were the bestselling titles at member bookstores of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance during the week ended Sunday, December 31, as reported to Book Sense:

Hardcover Fiction

1. Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier (Random House, $26.95, 9780375509322)
2. Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $25.95, 9780307262998)
3. For One More Day by Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401303273)
4. Next by Michael Crichton (HarperCollins, $27.95, 9780060872984)
5. True Evil by Greg Iles (Scribner, $25.95, 9780743292498)
6. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.99, 9780446528054)
7. Cross by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.99, 9780316159791)
8. Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris (Delacorte, $27.95, 9780385339414)
9. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $23.95, 9781565124998)
10. The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford (Knopf, $26.95, 9780679454687)
11. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, $24, 9780307265432)
12. Treasure of Khan by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Putnam, $27.95, 9780399153693)
13. The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, $25.95, 9780743272506)
14. What Came Before He Shot Her by Elizabeth A. George (HarperCollins, $26.95, 9780060545628)
15. The Machiavelli Covenant by Allan Folsom (Forge, $25.95, 9780765313058)

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (Crown, $25, 9780307237699)
2. The Innocent Man by John Grisham (Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385517232)
3. The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim (Rodale, $22.50, 9781594865138)
4. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (Knopf, $19.95, 9780307264558)
5. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Houghton Mifflin, $27, 9780618680009)
6. You: On a Diet by Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. (Free Press, $25, 9780743292542)
7. Joy of Cooking (75th Anniversary Edition) by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker (Scribner, $30, 9780743246262)
8. Marley & Me by John Grogan (Morrow, $21.95, 9780060817084)
9. Palestine by Jimmy Carter (S&S, $27, 9780743285025)
10. Barefoot Contessa at Home by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter, $35, 9781400054343)
11. Thunderstruck by Erik Larson (Crown, $25.95, 9781400080663)
12. Cesar's Way by Cesar Millan and Melissa Jo Peltier (Harmony, $24.95, 9780307337337)
13. Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook by Martha Stewart (Clarkson Potter, $45, 9780517577004)
14. The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene (S&S, $26, 9781416540663)
15. Saving Graces by Elizabeth Edwards (Broadway, $24.95, 9780767925372)

Trade Paperback Fiction

1. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14, 9780143037149)
2. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Random House, $13.95, 9780812968064)
3. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Grove, $14, 9780802142818)
4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 9781594480003)
5. March by Geraldine Brooks (Penguin, $14, 9780143036661)
6. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay, $13.95, 9780316010702)
7. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (Regan Books, $16, 9780060987107)
8. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (Norton, $13.95, 9780393328622)
9. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 9780375706868)
10. Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos (Plume, $14, 9780452287891)
11. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 9780143034902)
12. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperSanFrancisco, $13.95, 9780061122415)
13. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 9780743454537)
14. The Lighthouse by P.D. James (Vintage, $13.95, 9780307275738)
15. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks (Warner, $14.99, 9780446697439)

Trade Paperback Nonfiction

1. The Iraq Study Group Report (Vintage, $10.95, 9780307386564)
2. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2007 (World Almanac, $12.99, 9780886879952)
3. Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773)
4. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 9780375725609)
5. The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner (Amistad, $14.95, 9780060744878)
6. Bad President by R.D. Rosen, Harry Prichett, Rob Battles and James Friedman (Workman, $8.95, 9780761146209)
7. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 9780761136194)
8. An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (Rodale, $21.95, 9781594865671)
9. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14, 9780743247542)
10. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 9780316346627)
11. 1491 by Charles C. Mann (Vintage, $14.95, 9781400032051)
12. The Old Farmer's Almanac (Old Farmer's Almanac, $6.95, 9781571983909)
13. The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman (Penguin, $15, 9780143038788)
14. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95, 9780393317558)
15. America (The Book) by Jon Stewart and the Daily Show Staff (Warner, $15.99, 9780446691864)

Mass Market

1. The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury (Signet, $9.99, 9780451219954)
2. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton (Berkley, $7.99, 9780425212691)
3. Turning Angel by Greg Iles (Pocket, $9.99, 9780743454162)
4. The Hunt Club by John Lescroart (Signet, $9.99, 9780451220103)
5. The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell by Lilian Jackson Braun (Jove, $7.99, 9780515142419)
6. Sweetwater Creek by Anne Rivers Siddons (HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780060837013)
7. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Fourth Edition (Merriam-Webster, $7.50, 9780877799290)
8. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Warner, $7.99, 9780446616454)
9. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin's, $7.99, 9780312938857)
10. The Camel Club by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 9780446615624)

Children's Titles

1. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Laurel-Leaf, $6.99, 9780440238485)
2. The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13) by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Brett Helquist (HarperCollins, $12.99, 9780064410168)
3. Eldest (Limited Edition) by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $24, 9780375840609)
4. Pirateology by Captain William Lubber (Candlewick, $19.99, 9780763631437)
5. Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser (HarperCollins, $16.99, 9780060542092)
6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (children's movie tie-in) by C.S. Lewis (HarperCollins, $7.99, 9780060765460)
7. Christmas by Robert Sabuda (Orchard, $12.99, 9780439845687)
8. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (Megan Tingley, $8.99, 9780316015844)
9. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $10.95, 9780375840548)
10. The Snowmen by Caralyn Buehner and Mark Buehner (Dial, $21.99, 9780803731806)
11. Sunset (Warriors, The New Prophecy Series #6) by Erin W. Hunter (HarperCollins, $16.99, 9780060827694)
12. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss (Random House, $14, 9780394800790)
13. Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz (Puffin, $7.99, 9780142406120)
14. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (Megan Tingley, $17.99, 9780316160193)
15. Season of the Sandstorms (Magic Tree House Series #34) by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, $4.99, 9780375830327)

[Many thanks to Book Sense and SIBA!]



 

 

 


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