The bestseller cont

Paperback Fiction

1. Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
2. Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
3. True Grit by Charles Portis
4. Vestments by John Reimringer
5. Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark
6. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachmann
7. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
8. Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
9. All the Living by C.E. Morgan
10. The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
11. Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
12. In Caddis Wood by Mary Rockcastle
13. The Room by Emma Donoghue
14. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
15. Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr

Paperback Non-Fiction
1. Through No Fault Of My Own by Coco Irvine
2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
3. The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
4. A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink
5. Cleopatra by Stacey Schiff
6. The Tiger by John Vaillant
7. The Grace of Silence by Michelle Norris
8. Sheepish by Catherine Friend
9. Just Kids by Patti Smith
10. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
11. Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
12. At Home by Bill Bryson
13. 1491 by Charles Mann
14. Wicked River by Lee Sandlin
15. The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

2011 Bestsellers by Category

Hardcover Fiction
1. The Long-Shining Waters by Danielle Sosin
2. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
3. Gryphon by Charles Baxter
4. Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
5. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
6. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
7. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
8. Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
9. The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
10. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
11. Open City by Teju Cole
12. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
13. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
14. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
15. Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell

Hardcover Non-Fiction

1. The Social Animal by David Brooks
2. In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
3. Twelve Owls by Betsy Bowen and Laura Erickson
4. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
5. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
6. The Greater Journey by David McCullough
7. Bossypants by Tina Fey
8. Rin Tin Tin by Susan Orlean
9. Destiny of the Republic by Candace Millard
10. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
11. 1493 by Charles Mann
12. Blood Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
13. The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
14. Blue Nights by Joan Didion
15. Voyageur Skies by Don Brenneman and Mark Seeley

Out with the old and in with the very old

Tomorrow I'll be posting our bestselling titles from 2011 as we're finishing off inventory and year-end miscellany today. However, on Monday the 2nd of 2012 we had a customer redeem a gift certificate that was issued on 12/19/1997. That's almost six years before we took over this store. And over fourteen years past the issue date.

List #35 Stephanie Anderson

Stephanie Anderson: WORD. Brooklyn, NY. 11222.

Here are her self-imposed rules for the following list:I feel like I need to qualify this list with the rules I made for myself, which was the only way to get it under 50. For a book to be a favorite handsell, it must meet the following criteria:

1. It is a book that a reader is unlikely to have bought on their own (this is a rule I broke on several occasions)
2. It is a book that has several odd yet appealing characteristics that make it a very good fit with a certain sort of person
3. It is a book which, if successfully handsold, leaves me with the feeling that I have done A Good Deed

I also did not include any books published this year, as otherwise the list would be made up half of them and that seems somehow wrong. They need to age a bit, don't you think? Hi, I'm crazy. Also also, I tried to spread the love across as many sections of the store as I could, but of course fiction got the lion's share.

1. 33 1/3: CELINE DION'S LET'S TALK ABOUT LOVE by Carl Wilson
2. ALEC: THE YEARS HAVE PANTS by Eddie Campbell
3. AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD by Annie Dillard
4. APPETITES by Carolyn Knapp
5. THE BEST OF EVERYTHING by Rona Jaffe
6. BIG RABBIT'S BAD MOOD by Ramona Badescu, illustrated by Delphine Durand
7. BOMBARDIERS by Po Bronson
8. BORN TO RUN by Christopher McDougall
9. THE CITY & THE CITY by China Mieville
10. CLOWN GIRL by Monica Drake
11. THE CURSE OF THE APPROPRIATE MAN by Lynn Freed
12. THE DARK IS RISING by Susan Cooper
13. THE DAYS OF ABANDONMENT by Elena Ferrante
14. FATHERS AND SONS by Alexander Waugh
15. FLATLAND by Edwin Abbott
16. THE GONE-AWAY WORLD by Nick Harkaway
17. GETTING THINGS DONE by David Allen
18. GRACELING by Kristin Cashore
19. HOW TO COOK EVERYTHING by Mark Bittman
20. HOW TO BE A DOMESTIC GODDESS by Nigella Lawson
21. INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace
22. THE INTUITIONIST by Colson Whitehead
23. IT'S USEFUL TO HAVE A DUCK by Isol
24. K BLOWS TOP by Peter Carlson
25. KING DORK by Frank Portman
26. LAST NIGHT IN MONTREAL by Emily St. John Mandel
27. LAST SUMMER OF THE DEATH WARRIORS by Francisco X. Stork
28. LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN by James Agee
29. LOOK AT ME by Jennifer Egan
30. MATTERHORN by Karl Marlantes
31. MONEY by Martin Amis
32. THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY by Trenton Lee Stewart
33. OUT by Natsuo Kirino
34. NINE RULES TO BREAK WHEN ROMANCING A RAKE by Sarah Maclean
35. NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
36. THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster
37. PROMETHEA by Alan Moore
38. RAYMOND CARVER by Carol Sklenicka
39. RUMSPRINGA by Tom Shachtman
40. THE SELECTED STORIES OF DEBORAH EISENBERG by, well, Deborah Eisenberg
41. STONER by John Williams
42. TENDER MORSELS by Margo Lanagan
43. TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS by H. W. Brands
44. TWENTY FRAGMENTS OF A RAVENOUS YOUTH by Xiaolu Guo
45. VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray
46. THE WESTING GAME by Ellen Raskin
47. WHAT IT TAKES by Richard Ben Cramer
48. WHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca Stead
49. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD by Jincy Willett
50. WRITTEN LIVES by Javier Marias

List #34 Tracy Wynne

Tracy Wynne: Books Inc, Alameda. Alameda, CA 94501.
Secret Garden-Frances Hodgson Burnett
I, Claudius-Robert Graves
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler-E.L. Konigsburg
Dalva-Jim Harrison
5 Children and It-Edith Nesbit
Alice in Wonderland-Lewis Carroll
Ralph S. Mouse-Beverly Cleary
Henry V-William Shakespeare
Hobbit-JRR Tolkien
Omnivore's Dilemma-Michael Pollan
Roget's International Thesaurus
Death Comes for the Archbishop-Willa Cather
Stranger In a Strange Land-Robert Heinlein
Thurber Carnival-James Thurber
Collected Wodehouse-P.G. Wodehouse
1 Fish 2 Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish-Dr. Seuss
Once and Future King-T.H. White
Baron in the Trees-Italo Calvino
Cold Comfort Farm-Stella Gibbons
Rebecca-Daphne Du Maurier
Pillow Book of Sei Shonegon-Arthur Waley
Mastering the Art of French Cooking-Julia Child
Dune-Frank Herbert
Portable Dorthy Parker-Dorothy Parker
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down-Anne Fadiman
Living the Good Life-Linda Cockburn
Boggs: A Comedy of Values-Lawrence Weschler
Bury Me Standing-Isabel Fonseca
Wide Sargasso Sea-Jean Rhys
Wind In the Door-Madeline L'Engle
Chess Garden-Brooks Hansen
Witch of Blackbird Pond-Elizabeth George Speare
You Can't Say You Can't Play-Vivian Paley
High Wind In Jamaica-Richard Hughes
Silver Palate Cookbook-Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins
Ubik-Philip K. Dick
Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy-Sigird Undset
Fingersmith-Sarah Waters
Island of the Blue Dolphin-Scott O'Dell
Member of the Wedding-Carson McCullers
Comedians-Graham Greene
Killer Inside Me-Jim Thompson
Most of S. J. Perleman
Dracula-Bram Stoker
Zuleika Dobson-Max Beerbohm
Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor-Flannery O'Connor
Egg & I-Betty MacDonald
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler-Italo Calvino
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie-Muriel Spark

List #33 Terry Whittaker

Terry Whittaker: Viewpoint Books. Columbus, IN. 47201
Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
Year of Wonders-Geraldine Brooks
March-Geraldine Brooks
A Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess
In Cold Blood-Truman Capote
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay-Michael Chabon
An Arsonist’s Guide to the Writer’s Homes of New England-Brock Clarke
The Brothers Karamazov-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Middlesex-Jeffrey Eugenides
A Fan’s Notes-Frederick Exley
White Oleander-Janet Fitch
Everything is Illuminated-Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close-Jonathan Safran Foer
The Corrections-Jonathan Franzen
Ellen Foster-Kaye Gibbons
Chaos: Making a New Science-James Gleick
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History-Stephen Jay Gould
The Tin Drum-Gunter Grass
Snow Falling on Cedars-David Guterson
Riddley Walker-Russell Hoban
The Posionwood Bible-Barbara Kingsolver
Into the Wild-Jon Krakauer
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold-John LeCarre
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
The Fixer-Bernard Malamud
Chronicle of a Death Foretold-Garbrel Garcia Marquez
Killing Mr. Watson-Peter Mathiesson
The Road-Cormac McCarthy
Let the Great World Spin-Colum McCann
Atonement-Ian McEwan
Lonesome Dove-Larry McMurtry
The River of Doubt-Candace Millard
Beloved-Toni Morrison
The Shipping News-E.Annie Proulx
The Milagro Bean Field War-John Nichols
Going After Caciatto-Tim O’Brien
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance-Robert Pirsig
Empire Falls-Richard Russo
White Teeth-Zadie Smith
Longitude-Dava Sobel
The Confessions of Nat Turner-William Styron
The Mosquito Coast-Paul Theroux
War and Peace-Leo Tolstoy
A Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole
Fathers and Sons-Ivan Turgenev
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant-Anne Tyler
Cutting For Stone-Abraham Verghese
The Book Thief-Markus Zusak

List #32 Josh Christie

Josh Christie: Sherman's Books and Stationery in Freeport: 128 Main St, Freeport, ME 04032(Their Bar Harbor store has been open since 1886).
Doctor Olaf van Schuler’s Brain by Kirsten Menger-Anderson
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The Story of Sugarloaf by John Christie
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Nightly News by Jonathan Hickman
1984 by George Orwell
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Naked Pint by Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune
Active Liberty by Stephen Breyer
Speaking Freely by Floyd Abrams
Local by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan Howard
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Extra Lives by Tom Bissell
One and the Same by Abigail Pogrebin
Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
Wednesday Comics
I Found This Funny by Judd Apatow
Guide to Getting It On by Paul Joannides
Actual Air by David Berman
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Last Call by Daniel Okrent
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
Phonogram, The Singles Club by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
I Married You for Happiness by Lily Tuck
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
The Vikings by Robert Ferguson
Bonk by Mary Roach
Good Eggs by Phoebe Potts
K Blows Top by Peter Carlson
The Citizen’s Constitution by Seth Lipsky
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel M. Klein
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil
The Ridiculous Race by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran
All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House by David Giffels
Socrates Café by Christopher Phillips
Live from New York by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E. Bowman
This Life is in Your Hands by Melissa Coleman
Red, White and Brew by Brian Yaeger
The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore


Also, feel free to keep those lists coming to us at micawbers@popp.net
It is easiest if they comes as text in the e-mail but can come as an attachment.