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Bestsellers of the week in SoCal bookstores

Last week's number one fiction work in the Pacific Northwest — "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes — is our top book this week. Steve Jobs and Walter Isaacson hold the spot in nonfiction, but the lineup shakes up a bit beneath them. Lists are below.

Hardcover fiction

1. The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes, Knopf, $23.95, 9780307957122
2. Gods Without Men
Hari Kunzru, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307957115
3. The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316126694
4. Poison Flower
Thomas Perry, Mysterious Press, $24, 9780802126054
5. The Wolf Gift
Anne Rice, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307595119
6. Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307959850
7. A Dance With Dragons
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $35, 9780553801477
8. The Expats
Chris Pavone, Crown, $26, 9780307956354
9. Lone Wolf
Jodi Picoult, Atria, $28, 9781439102749
10. An American Spy
Olen Steinhauer, Minotaur, $25.99, 9780312622893


Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781451648539
2. The End of Illness
David B. Agus, M.D., Free Press, $26, 9781451610178
3. Go the F**k to Sleep
Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (Illus.), Akashic, $14.95, 9781617750250
4. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo, Random House, $27, 9781400067558
5. Quiet
Susan Cain, Crown, $26, 9780307352149
6. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier
Ree Drummond, Morrow, $29.99, 9780061997181
7. The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg, Random House, $28, 9781400069286
8. Bringing Up Bébé
Pamela Druckerman, Penguin Press, $25.95, 9781594203336
9. New American Haggadah
Jonathan Safran Foer, Little Brown, $29.99, 9780316069861
10. When I Was a Child I Read Books
Marilynne Robinson, FSG, $24, 9780374298784

Trade Paperback Fiction

1. The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht, Random House, $15, 9780385343848
2. The Great Gatsby
F.Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $15, 9780743273565
3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307454560
4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré, Penguin, $16, 9780143120933
5. The Weird Sisters
Eleanor Brown, Berkley, $15, 9780425244142

Trade Paperback Nonfiction

1. Bossypants
Tina Fey, Reagan Arthur Books, $15.99, 9780316056878
2. The Grand Design
Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow, Bantam, $18, 9780553384666
3. Moonwalking With Einstein
Joshua Foer, Penguin, $16, 9780143120537
4. Unlikely Friendships
Jennifer S. Holland, Workman, $13.95, 9780761159131
5. Heaven Is for Real
Todd Burpo, Thomas Nelson, $16.99, 9780849946158

Lists reflect sales through Sunday, March 18 in bookstores of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association. Full lists


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