Rachelle's Reading List: Friday, January 6th, 2012

McNally Jackson’s Bestsellers of 2011 [McNally Jackson Tumblr]

1. Just Kids, Patti Smith (Now also the bestselling book in McNJ’s history.)
2. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
3. On Booze, F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. Bossypants, Tina Fey
5. The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman
6. The ReadyMade 100 Project Manual (printed on our book machine!)
7. Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
8. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami
9. Go the Fuck to Sleep, Adam Mansbach
10. Blood, Bones and Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton
11. The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey “Salivagate” Eugenides
12. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
13. Tote!
14. The Help, Kathryn Stockett
15. The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach (This would be been higher if it hadn’t gone out of stock the week before Christmas.)
16. Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart
17. Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
18. All the public domain books from the Espresso Book Machine!
19. Everything Beautiful Began After, Simon Van Booy
20. Suicide, Edouard Leve
21. Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
22. The Tao of Wu, The Rza
23. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
24. One Day, David Nicholls
25. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
26. Woolgathering, Patti Smith
27. Blue Nights, Joan Didion
28. Life, Keith Richards
29. By Nightfall, Michael Cunningham
30. You Deserve Nothing, Alexander Maksik
31. We the Animals, Justin “Former McNJ Staffer” Torres

Other notables (i.e. books I like that were not far down the list): Rich People Things, The Ask, Emma Straub’s Other People We Married, which we had in stock way too infrequently. Leaving the Atocha Station is in the Top 100 (another title that would’ve been higher if it hadn’t fallen out of stock everywhere just before Christmas). Lydia Davis’ The Cows—a chapbook about literal cows—is just outside the 100. Actually, though, our bestselling item-type thing by far was the set-up fee to publish on our Book Machine.