Hawai'i's best-sellers
Advertiser Staff
This list is a rotating compilation by local booksellers. This week: retail sales at Bookends, Kailua, for Dec. 28-Jan. 3.
FICTION
1. "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden
2. "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis
3. "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa Lee
4. "The Penultimate Peril" by Lemony Snicket
5. "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown
6. "Amazing Peace" by Maya Angelou
7. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
8. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
9. "The Polar Express" by Chris Van Allsburg
10. "Eldest" by Christopher Paolini
NONFICTION
1. "Highlights of Kailua's History" by Candy Irvine
2. "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey
3. "Hawai'i: A Sense of Place" by Mary Philpotts McGrath, Kaui Philpotts and David Livingston
4. "Lost Generations" by J. Arthur Rath
5. "Passion and Beauty" by Heather Titus
6. "Our Endangered Values" by Jimmy Carter
7. "The Companies We Keep" by Bob Sigal
8. "The Surfer Spirit" by Cynthia Derosier and Jody Kjeldsen
9. "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion
10. "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman