Bookstore Bestsellers, 2014

Happy New Year! I'd like to present the annual list of Big Blue Marble bestsellers -- the top 20 books sold in 2014, and top 25 overall.

Please tell us: What books have you read and loved over the past year?

Top 20 Bestsellers at Big Blue Marble in 2014:

1) Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia by Abigail Perkiss (local author, local Mt. Airy setting!)
2) Deadout by Jon McGoran (local author)
3) Brief Eulogies at Roadside Shrines by Mark Lyons (local author)
4) Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5) Mt. Airy Musers: A Literary Journal Made by Kids for Kids: Editor-in-Chief, Cordelia Jensen (local authors)
6) Frozen: A Big Golden Book, adapted by Bill Scollon
7) Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
8) Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
9) Monk Eats an Afro by Yolanda Wisher (local author)
10) Drift by Jon McGoran (local author)
11) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
12) Wild by Cheryl Strayed
13) Flora and Ulysses: the Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
14) The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
15) Amulet 6: Escape from Lucien by Kazi Kibuishi
16) Sisters by Raina Telgemeier
17) The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (2014 selection for the One Book, One Philadelphia program)
18) Hyperbole and a Half : Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
19) Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, & Southern Flavors Remixed by Bryant Terry
20) Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathman

Top 25 Bestsellers at Big Blue Marble to Date:

1) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
2) Body Trace by D.H. Dublin (local author)
3) Philadelphia Chickens by Sandra Boynton (onetime local author)
4) Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathman
5) The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
6) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
7) Good Night Philadelphia by Adam Gamble and Cooper Kelly (local setting)
8) Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
9) Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (somewhat local author)
10) The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
11) The First 1000 Days by Nikki McClure
12) The Daring Book for Girls by Miriam Peskowitz (local author) and Andrea Buchanan
13) The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (2013 selection for the One Book, One Philadelphia program)
14) Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows
15) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (selected as companion book for the 2011 One Book, One Philadelphia program)
16) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
17) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
18) The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
19) Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
20) The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
21) Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
22) The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
23) The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
24) Flotsam by David Wiesner (local author)
25) Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Bonus: Tied for spot 26:
a) Zen Shorts by Jon Muth
b) Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia by Abigail Perkiss (local author, local Mt. Airy setting!)

Also check out the list of our young adult bestsellers, posted in the January YA newsletter: Big Blue YA News -- Dragons, Music, History, and Bestseller Lists!

Happy reading for 2015!