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Read Into This: Copperfield's 2013 North Bay Best Seller List

See what your neighbors have been reading this year in Copperfield's Book's 2013 bestseller list.

It’s been less than two months since Copperfield’s Books opened the doors of its downtown San Rafael store to great fanfare, and the small North Bay indie bookstore chain has already developed quite a following.

Copperfield's has seven North Bay stores in Napa, Sonoma and Marin counties.

What have your neighbors been reading?

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Copperfield’s provided Patch a list of the top 10 bestsellers at its San Rafael store. Note that since the store just opened on Nov. 11, the list reflects an unusually small sample size.

 

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SAN RAFAEL:

1. Dear Life by Alice Munro (fiction) 283 books sold

2. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell (nonfiction) 275 sold

3. Goldfinch by Donna Tart (fiction) 188 books sold

4. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett (nonfiction)

5. Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair by Anne Lamott (nonfiction)

6. Dog Songs by Mary Oliver (poetry)

7. The Circle by Dave Eggers (fiction)

8. I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai (nonfiction)

9. S by Doug Dorst (fiction)

10. The Bully Pulpit by Doris Goodwin (nonfiction)

 

 

Here are the Top 10 Bestselling Adult Books in 2013 for all seven of the company’s North Bay stores:

1. Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Near-Death Experience and Journey into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander (trade paper nonfiction)

2. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (hardcover fiction)

3. Wild by Cheryl Strayed (trade paper nonfiction)

4. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (hardcover fiction)

5. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (trade paper fiction)

6. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris (hardcover nonfiction)

7. Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple (trade paper fiction)

8. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (trade paper fiction)

9. Inferno by Dan Brown (hardcover fiction)

10. Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan (hardcover nonfiction)

 

Honorable mentions:

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (fiction)

Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg (nonfiction)

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain (nonfiction)

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (fiction)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (fiction)

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Marin (fiction)

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (fiction)

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan (nonfiction)

Joyland by Stephen King (fiction)

The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart (nonfiction)

Dear Life by Alice Munro (fiction)

The Art Forger by BA Shapiro (fiction)

The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin (fiction)

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell (nonfiction)

The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan (fiction)

I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai (nonfiction)

Goldfinch by Donna Tart (fiction)

 

 

 

 

 

 


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