The top three titles on our current list match well with the nonfiction bestsellers listed in last Sunday's Chronicle. In the Bay Area, Born a Crime ranks at number 6 and The Princess Diarist ranks at number 4. Bruce Springsteen's memoir ranks number 3 nation-wide.
Books on hollywood, show business and entertainment in general often do well on the lists of holds. Memoirs by Anna Kendrick, Lauren Graham, Megyn Kelly as well as the oral history of the Daily Show are all very popular. In past lists rock and pop music memoirs have also faired well, but only Born to Run and Robbie Robertson's Testimony place on this list.
One slightly surprising title is Walking Through Walls by Marina Abramović. While Abramović has achieved great renown in performance art circles, she seems out of place among the celebrities of this list. But, I think the book's popularity reflects San Francisco's readers who have also shown favor towards two books about fine art - How To See by David Salle and a History of Pictures by David Hockney.
Sex sells - even sex from 80 years as Mary Astor's Purple Diary shows. And anything with the Murakami touch will do well with our readers as can be seen with his book of conversations about music with Seiji Ozawa.
If these books excite you as well, you may have get in line to read them. Thankfully, the majority of the titles are also available in eBook formats.
Happy reading.
1. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (Spiegel & Grau, 2016).
2. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (Blue Rider Press, 2016).
3. Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (Simon & Schuster, 2016).
4. Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick (Touchstone, 2016).
5. Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, (And Everything In Between) by Lauren Graham (Ballantine Books, 2016).
6. Settle For More by Megyn Kelly (Harper, 2016)
7. The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History As Told By Jon Stewart, The Correspondents, Staff and Guests by Chris Smith (Grand Central Publishing, 2016).
8. The Godfather Notebook by Francis Ford Coppola (Regan Arts, 2016).
9. Kathy Griffin's Celebrity Run-Ins: My A-Z Index by Kathy Griffin (Flatiron Books, 2016).
10. Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936 by Edward Sorel (Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016).
11. Testimony by Robbie Robertson (Crown Archetype, 2016).
12. Superficial: More Adventures From the Andy Cohen Diaries by Andy Cohen (Henry Holt and Company, 2016).
13. The Magnolia Story by Chip & Joanna Gaines, with Mark Dagostino (W Publishing, , 2016).
14. Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramović, with James Kaplan (Crown Archetype, 2016).
15. How To See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art by David Salle (W.W. Norton & Company, 2016)
16. Absolutely On Music: Conversations by Haruki Murakami with Seiji Ozawa, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016).
17. Celebrate Everything!: Fun Ideas to Bring Your Parties To Life, written and illustrated by Darcy Miller (William Morrow, 2016).
18. Harry Potter: The Artifact Vault, written by Jody Revenson (Harper Design, 2016).
19. A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen by David Hockney & Martin Gayford (Abrams, 2016).
20. Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson (Riverhead Books, 2016).
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