The Best-Selling Books of 2013 in Petaluma

Here are the Top 10 for the Petaluma store, 140 Kentucky St.: 

1. Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Near-Death Experience and Journey into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander (trade paper nonfiction)
2. Wild by Cheryl Strayed (trade paper nonfiction)
3. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (hardcover fiction)
4. The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan (fiction) (came out late Fall, store event drove sales)
5. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (trade paper fiction)
6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (fiction)
7. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris (hardcover nonfiction)
8. Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan (hardcover nonfiction)
9. Inferno by Dan Brown (hardcover fiction)
10. Never Say Die: The San Francisco Giants by Brian Murphy (nonfiction) (store event)

Petaluma’s Honorable mentions:

1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (fiction)
2. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (fiction)
3. Ready Player 1 by Ernest Cline (fiction) (staff favorite)
4. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (fiction)
5. Where’d You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple (fiction)
6. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Marin (fiction)
7. Joyland by Stephen King (fiction)
8. Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg (nonfiction)
9. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain (nonfiction)
10. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (fiction)
11. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan (nonfiction)
12. Cowgirl Creamery Cooks by Peggy Smith (nonfiction)

Staff at the Petaluma store say one of their favorites is Ready Player 1, which doesn't appear on the best-sellers list of any other Copperfield's store.

Staff reports customers seem to have an equal interest in fiction and nonfiction.

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