Sonoma’s Bestseller List, Nov. 14

The topselling fiction titles at Readers’ Books|

Hardcover ?fiction

1. “The Ninth Hour” by Alice McDermott

In early 1900s Brooklyn, a young Irish immigrant takes his life, leaving behind a pregnant wife, who is befriended by a local community of Catholic nuns.

2. “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles

Epic story of a former Russian aristocrat living under house arrest in a luxurious Moscow hotel following the Bolshevik Revolution.

3. “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders

Man Booker Prize winner, supernatural and philosophical tale involving the death of President Lincoln’s young son and the ghostly inhabitants of the cemetery where he is buried.

4. “Glass Houses” by Louise Penny

The 13th installment of bestselling Penny’s Inspector Gamache series.

5. “A Distant View of Everything: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel” by Alexander McCall Smith

Latest installment of the bestselling author’s series, featuring amateur sleuth/philosopher, Isabel Dalhousie.

6. “Sourdough” by Robin Sloan

San Francisco’s technology and food cultures collide in this witty send up of both worlds.

7. “My Absolute Darling” by Gabriel Tallent

Compelling and harrowing story of a 14 year old girl being raised in rural Mendocino by her brutal and charismatic father, who begins to see glimpses of a life outside of her isolated existence.

8. “Uncommon Type: Some Stories” by Tom Hanks

The Oscar winning actor’s debut of a wide ranging and whimsical collection of short stories.

9. “Manhattan Beach” by Jennifer Egan

The latest from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “A Visit From the Good Squad,” takes place in New York during the Depression and WWII.

10. “Origin” by Dan Brown

The latest, featuring the character of Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon, protagonist from “The Da Vinci Code.”

Paperback ?nonfiction

1. “News of the World” by Paulette Jiles

Post Civil War era, a former soldier reads newspapers to paying customers.

2. “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr

Pulitzer Prize winner, the story of a blind French girl and an orphaned German boy, whose lives collide in occupied Normandy, France.

3. “To Capture What We Cannot Keep” by Beatrice Colin

Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, the love story of a young Scottish widow and a French engineer, both from very different social classes.

4. “The Comet Seekers” by Helen Sedgwick

Debut novel, tale of love, loss and heartbreak, from modern Antarctica to medieval England.

5. “The Patriots” by Sana Krasikov

Multi generational and multi narrative tale of a family from New York and Cleveland in 1933, through Moscow in 2008.

6. “Good Morning, Midnight” by Lily Brooks-Dalton

A lonely scientist in the Arctic and an astronaut trying to return to Earth, grapple with love, regret and survival in a world transformed.

7. “Moonglow” by Michael Chabon

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author, in a mixture of fiction and personal family history, a dying man tells stories to his grandson that capture the intensity and history of 20th century America.

8. “Commonwealth” by Ann Patchett

Two families are blended and bonded by remarriage, a child’s death and a bestselling novel.

9. “The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again!” by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

The second installment of the adventures of the League of Pensioners, first introduced in “The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules.”

10. “Autumn” by Ali Smith

Two old friends, ages apart, in a story about aging, time and love.

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