Curious what people were buying this year during the holiday shopping frenzy?? Here is a list of the 20 bestselling books at our store from the day after Thanksgiving through Christmas Eve. Lots of great books here! The list includes two cookbooks, seven novels (including two with local connections and an homage to Jane Austen by a well-loved mystery writer), two books for younger readers (one by local authors), ten works of nonfiction (two by local authors), and a book of stories and photographs of unexpected friendships between unlikely animal pairings. Here's the full list:
Book List
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780062024688
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Published: Balzer + Bray, 8/2011
Portland-based husband/wife author/illustrator team of Decemberists fame write their first book in a trilogy set in a fictionalized Forest Park.
$18.95
ISBN-13: 9780870715853
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Published: Oregon State University Press, 10/2010
Local favorite Brian Doyle comes through with his first novel, set in a fictional Oregon coast town.
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780307959850
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Published: Knopf, 12/2011
P.D. James revisits the characters of Pride and Prejudice, six years after Jane Austen left off with those characters, in a tale of murder and suspense.
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780385343848
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 11/2011
Twenty-something author Tea Obrecht gives us a debut novel that was a finalist for the National Book Award and named one of the top five novels of the year by The New York Times.
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9781616200152
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1/2011
Former Portlander Heidi Durrow's novel portrays growing up bi-racial in Portland in the '80s. The book has been selected as the 2012 Multnomah County Everybody Reads book, and Heidi will be back in Portland in March at the Schnitz to talk about her book.
$35.00
ISBN-13: 9781451648539
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 10/2011
Highly anticipated biography from an award-winning biographer, about a man on the innovative edge of the digital world.
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780870716126
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Published: Oregon State University Press, 10/2011
The new edition of this guide to natural areas in Portland and environs belongs in everyone's backpack or glove box.
$21.95
ISBN-13: 9780762771318
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Published: skirt!, 11/2011
Portland author Karen Karbo produces the third book in her series about "kick ass" women, this time looking at Georgia O'Keeffe.
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780812979114
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 8/2011
Gail Caldwell tells the beautifully moving story of her friendship with the writer Caroline Knapp, and the dogs in their lives.
$45.00
ISBN-13: 9780670022700
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Published: Viking Adult, 10/2011
Fascinating book from the director of the British Museum, telling the history of the world through selected man-made objects that have survived over time.
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9780679763888
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Published: Vintage, 10/2011
Beautifully written and produced and artfully organized, this award-winning book tells the story of the decades-long migration of black citizens from the South to the North and West.
$8.99
ISBN-13: 9780439023528
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Published: Scholastic Press, 7/2010
The second book for younger readers on this list, Hunger Games is the first book in a dystopic trilogy for young adults.
$23.95
ISBN-13: 9780307957122
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Published: Knopf, 1/2012
Booker-award-winning slim novel from well-respected British writer Julian Barnes
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9781603425667
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Published: Storey Publishing, 10/2011
From a Portland writer and Portland publisher, this cookbook celebrates the rich diversity of Oregon's cuisine.
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781400068784
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Published: Random House, 11/2011
This memoir from a legendary actress tells her mother's story, and the story of their relationship.
$35.00
ISBN-13: 9781452101248
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Published: Chronicle Books, 3/2011
This vegetarian cookbook from a chef who is not a vegetarian sold several copies at our store before the NPR interview was even over, to people listening to the show, and it continued to sell and sell.
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780316126694
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Published: Little, Brown and Company, 9/2011
This debut novel was definitely the Buzz Book of the holiday season, and it held up to all of the accolades. Also one of the top five novels of the year, according to The New York Times.
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780307276681
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Published: Vintage, 7/2011
Also one of the NYT top five novels this year, this quirky debut novel set in the Everglades is really taking off in paperback.
$30.00
ISBN-13: 9780374275631
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 10/2011
Highly respected psychologist explores flawed human reasoning in this book selected by The New York Times as one of the five best in nonfiction this year.
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780761159131
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Published: Workman Publishing, 6/2011
Heartwarming tales of animals bonding unexpectedly and abidingly -- hippos, gorillas, kittens, tortoises. snakes, hamsters, and more.
