The following were the bestselling titles at Chicago area bookstores during the week ended Sunday, February 16 (with an extended hardcover fiction list):

Hardcover Fiction
 
1. The Women by T.C. Boyle
2. Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
3. Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon
4. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
5. The Associate by John Grisham
6. Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
7. Fool by Christopher Moore
8. Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
9. 2666 by Roberto Bolano
10. The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich
 
Hardcover Nonfiction
 
1. The Inaugural Address 2009 by Barack Obama
2. Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson
3. Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik
4. Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
5. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
 
Paperback Fiction
 
1. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
2. The Shack by William P. Young
3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
4. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini
 
Paperback Nonfiction
 
1. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
2. Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
3. Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama
4. Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander
5. The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
 
Children's
 
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
2. Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems
3. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
4. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
5. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Reporting bookstores: Anderson's, Naperville and Downers Grove; Read Between the Lynes, Woodstock; the Book Cellar, Lincoln Square; Lake Forest Books, Lake Forest; the Bookstall at Chestnut Court, Winnetka; 57th St. Books; Seminary Co-op; Unabridged Books; Women and Children First, Chicago.

[Many thanks to Carl Lennertz!]