The following were the bestselling titles at City Lights Books, San Francisco, Calif., during July, as reported in the bookshop's e-newsletter:

Paperback

1. On the Road: Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
2. Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
3. San Francisco Noir 2 edited by Peter Maravelis
4. Smash the Church, Smash the State! edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca
5. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
6. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
7. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
8. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
9. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
10. The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon

Hardcover

1. Poetry as Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2. Poets edited by Carmela Ciuraru
3. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs
4. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick
5. The Beats: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar
6. This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
7. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales by Kurt Schwitters
8. How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
9. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
10. Burn This Book edited by Toni Morrison