Bookstore Bestsellers, 2015

Happy New Year! I'd like to present the annual list of Big Blue Marble bestsellers -- the top 25 books sold in 2015, and top 25(ish) overall. Those of you who have been following these lists since I began them in 2010 may notice that, for the first time, the hardcover of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has been overtaken as our number-one all-time bestseller! Check below for the seasonally appropriate challenger...

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

Top 25 Bestsellers at Big Blue Marble in 2015:

1) Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2) Skyscraping by Cordelia Jensen (local author, writer-in-residence)
3) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
4) Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
5) My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
6) 100 Under $100 by Betsy Teutsch (local author)
7) Rad American Women A-Z by Kate Schatz
8) Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
9) Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
10) The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
11) Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
12) Mt. Airy Musers vol. 2: A Literary Journal Made by Kids for Kids; Editor-in-Chief, Cordelia Jensen (local authors)
13) El Deafo by Cece Bell
14) The Martian by Andy Weir
15) We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
16) H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
17) Euphoria by Lily King
18) M Train by Patti Smith
19) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School by Jeff Kinney
20) Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
21) Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia by Abigail Perkiss (local author, local Mt. Airy setting!)
22) Orphan Train by Christina Kline (2015 selection for the One Book, One Philadelphia program)
23) Drama by Raina Telgemeier
24) Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathman
25) Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson

Top Bestsellers at Big Blue Marble to Date:

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

Happy reading for 2016!