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"Death Comes to Pemberley" still leads in hardcover fiction, and "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" is at the top of the paperback fiction list. Tina Fey's "Bossypants" is #1 among nonfiction paperbacks. It's in hardcover nonfiction where some change is occurring.
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, FSG
2. Catherine the Great
Robert K. Massie, Random House
3. Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson, S&S
4. Killing Lincoln
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt
5. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Mindy Kaling, Crown Archetype
6. Blue Nights
Joan Didion, Knopf
7. Boomerang
Michael Lewis, Norton
8. Go the F**k to Sleep
Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (Illus.), Akashic
9. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House
10. American Sniper
Chris Kyle, et al., Morrow
All the lists from the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association.
Book note: Jonathan Kirsch at the Jewish Journal announced that the weekly's first book prize goes to Nancy K. Miller for her family memoir, “What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past.”