Petaluma’s Bestseller List: Bob Woodward’s ‘Fear’ scares up the Number one spot.

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The top-selling titles at Petaluma’s Copperfield’s Book Store, for the week of Sept. 10-17, 2018.

Given the enormous public awareness that’s popped up around Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear: Trump in the Whitehouse,” it’s no surprise that the high profile tell-all tome appears in the Top Spot on its first week in release. It’s also no surprise that “Logical Family,” last year’s memoir from “Tales of the City” author Armistead Maupin,’ is in the No. 2 spot, given the popular SF writer’s visit to Copperfield’s over the weekend (a visit originally scheduled last October but canceled due to the fires going on at the same time).

And, all things considered, it’s really not much of shock to see that J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumously published new novel “The Fall of Gondolin,” set 1,000 years before the events of “The Lord of the Rings,” is on the list, too (No. 10), given that, well, even never-meant-for-publication Tolkien is of interest to his hordes of fantasy-loving fans.

The closest thing to a surprise on this week’s list is the appearance of Elizabeth Strout’s 2017 novel “Anything is Possible,” a continuation of the story she began in 2016’s “My Name is Lucy Barton.”

The big surprises this week come not on the Fiction and Nonfiction List, but on the Kids and Young Adults List. For one thing, given that author Greg Van Eekout made an in-store appearance last Friday with his charmingly off-the-wall novel “Voyage of the Dogs” - an event that drew people and their dogs to the reading, the latter dressed up in appropriate space dog attire - it’s a bit unexpected that “Voyage” only made it as high as No. 2. The top spot was taken by Mac Barnett’s sneaky illustrated novel “Mac B., Kid Spy: Mac Undercover,” at No. 4 last week, but some climbed to No. 1, right past “Voyage of the Dogs.”

Petaluma’s Amy G. returns to the Top Ten with her indelible picture book “Smarty Marty’s Got Game” (No. 6), while Alexandria Giardino’s “Ode to an Onion” - published by Petaluma’s Cameron Books - shows up at No. 5.

FICTION/NON-FICTION

1. ‘Fear,’ written by Bob Woodward

2. ‘Logical Family,’ by Armistead Maupin

3. ‘Educated,’ written by Tara Westover

4. ‘Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine,’ by Gail Honeyman

5. ‘Restless Wave,’ by John McCain

6. ‘Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck,’ by Mark Manson

7. ‘My Own Words,’ by Ruth Bader Ginsberg

8. ‘Anything Is Possible,’ by Elizabeth Strout

9. ‘In the Midst of Winter.’ By Isabelle Allende

10. ‘Fall of Gondolin,’ by J.R.R. Tolkien

KIDS & YOUNG ADULTS

1. ‘Mac B., Kid Spy: Mac Undercover,’ written by Mac Barnett

2. ‘Voyage of the Dogs,’ by Greg Van Eekhout

3. ‘Farewell to Manzanar,’ written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

4. ‘Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas,’ by Dav Pilkey

5. ‘Ode to an Onion,’ by Alexandria Giardino

6. ‘Smarty Marty’s Got Game,’ by Amy G.

7. ‘Baby-Sitters Club Graphix: Kristy’s Big Day,’ by Ann M. Martin

8. ‘People of Peace,’ by Sandrine Mirza

9. ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,’ written by Jenny Han

10. ‘How to Be a Lion,’ written by Ed Vere

(Data compiled by Amber-Rose Reed of Copperfield’s Books)

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