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This time, I thought we'd compare Southern California's book-buying to that in the Pacific Northwest. Just looking at the stats from independent booksellers, here's how we compare.
| Southern California | Pacific Northwest |
| Hardcover fiction | |
| The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes Death Comes to Pemberley, The Wolf Gift, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories, Taken, | Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James The Wolf Gift, The Sense of an Ending, A Dance With Dragons, |
Pretty close. Let's look at nonfiction. Hint: Steve Jobs is not as popular up in the land of Microsoft.
| Southern California | Pacific Northwest |
| Hardcover nonfiction | |
| Bringing Up Bébé, Pamela Druckerman Behind the Beautiful Forevers, All There Is, Steve Jobs, The End of Illness, | Quiet, Susan Cain All There Is, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Go the F**k to Sleep, In the Garden of Beasts, |
More SoCal bestsellers for the week through February 19
More Pacific Northwest bestsellers the same week