M any of the year-end bestsellers were purchased as gifts and comprise some of our readers’ favorite books of the month.
Since more reading is part of many people’s New Year’s resolution list, it’s a good moment to check out what books you have been missing. Whether it’s fiction or nonfiction that you are pledging to read more of, or reading more to the children near and dear to you, this bestseller list is a good place to start. Here’s to good reading!
Fiction
1. “The Kite Runner,” by Khaled Hosseini, paper, Riverhead, $14
2. “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,” by Haruki Murakami, paper, Random House, $15.95
3. “Tijuana Straits,” by Kem Nunn, paper, Simon & Schuster, $15
4. “The People’s Act of Love,” by James Meek, hardcover, Canongate Books, $24
5. “The Other Boleyn Girl,” by Philippa Gregory, paper, Simon & Schuster, $15
6. “The Truth About Diamonds,” by Nicole Richie, hardcover, HarperCollins, $23.95
7. “The Shadow of the Wind,” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, paper, Penguin, $15
8. “Ireland,” by Frank Delaney, hardcover, HarperCollins, $26.95
9. “Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay,” by Annie Proulx, paper, Simon & Schuster, $9.95
10. “The Lighthouse,” by P.D. James, hardcover, Random House, $25.95
Nonfiction
1. “Malibu: California’s Most Famous Seaside Community,” by Marion Hall, hardcover & paper, Angel City Press, $35 & $25
2. “A Million Little Pieces,” by James Frey, paper, Random House, $14.95
3. “Malibu: A Century of Living by the Sea,” Julius Shulman & Juergen Nogai, hardcover, Abrams, $50
4. “The Year of Magical Thinking,” by Joan Didion, hardcover, Random House, $23.95
5. “My Fifty Years in Malibu,” by Dorothy Stotsenberg, hardcover, $20
6. “Chronicle, Vol. 1,” by Bob Dylan, paper, Simon & Schuster, $14
7. “Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog,” by John Grogan, hardcover, HarperCollins, $21.95
8. “Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love And Death In Renaissance Italy,” by Sarah Bradford, paper, Penguin USA, $16
9. “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior,” by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson, paper, Harcourt Brace, $15
10. “Teacher Man: A Memoir,” by Frank McCourt, hardcover, Simon & Schuster, $26
Children
1. “Mr. Finnegan’s Giving Chest,” by Dan Farr and Dick Van Dyke, hardcover, Shadow Mountain, $19.95
2. “A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children,” by Caroline Kennedy, hardcover, TimeWarner, $19.95
3. “Egyptology,” by Ernest Drake, hardcover, Candlewick Press, $19.99
4. “Dragonology,” by Ernest Drake, hardcover, Candlewick Press, $19.99
5. “Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs: The Definitive Pop-Up,” by Robert Sabuda, hardcover, Candlewick Press, $26.99
6. “Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale,” by Mo Willems, hardcover, TimeWarner, $15.99
7. “Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin (Ologies),” by Master Merlin, hardcover, Candlewick Press, $12.99
8. “The Polar Express,” by Chris Van Allsburg, hardcover, Houghton Mifflin, $18.95
9. “The It Girl,” by Cecily Von Ziegesar, paper, TimeWarner, $9.99
10. “Winter’s Tale : An Original Pop-up Journey” by Robert Sabuda, hardcover, Simon & Schuster, $26.95
Book list provided by Diesel, A Bookstore.