Top-Selling Titles in Chicagoland Week ending 9/20

Top-Selling Titles in Chicagoland Last Week

The following were the bestselling titles at independent bookstores in the Chicago area during the week ended Sunday, September 20:

Hardcover Fiction
1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
2. Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
3. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
4. The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
5. The Help by Katherine Stockett

Hardcover Nonfiction
1. True Compass by Edward Kennedy
2. Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
3. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
4. Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman
5. Lords of the Levee by John Coughlin

Paperback Fiction
1. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
4. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
5. Dragon House by John Shors

Paperback Nonfiction
1. My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme
2. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
3. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
4. Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck
5. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris