Dijkstra Bestsellers:
From the following sources:
Book Sense
The New York Times
Wall Street Journal
The Chicago Tribune
Publishers Weekly
Washington Post
The Los Angeles Times
San Francisco Chronicle
USA Today
JANELL CANNON
Stellaluna (Harcourt, 1993): New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
Verdi (Harcourt, 1997): Publishers Weekly bestseller
Crickwing (Harcourt, 2000): New York Times bestseller
Pinduli (Harcourt, 2004): New York Times bestseller
DIANE MOTT DAVIDSON
Catering to Nobody (Bantam, 1990): USA Today bestseller
Dying for Chocolate (Bantam, 1993): USA Today bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller
The Cereal Murders (Bantam, 1994): USA Today bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller
Killer Pancake (Bantam, 1996): USA Today bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller
Main Corpse (Bantam, 1996): Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller
Grilling Season (Bantam, 1997): Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller, Washington Post bestseller
Prime Cut (Bantam, 1998): Book Sense bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller, Washington Post bestseller
Tough Cookie (Bantam, 2000): Book Sense bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller
Sticks and Stones (Bantam, 2001): Book Sense bestseller, Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller, Washington Post bestseller
Chopping Spree (Bantam, 2002): Book Sense bestseller, Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller
Double Shot (William Morrow, 2004): New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller
Dark Tort (William Morrow, 2006): New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller, Washington Post bestseller
Sweet Revenge (William Morrow, 2007): Book Sense bestseller, Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller, Washington Post bestseller
MIKE DAVIS
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Metropolitan, 1998): Los Angeles Times bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI
Arranged Marriage: Stories (Anchor, 1996): San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
Mistress of Spices: A Novel (Doubleday, 1997): Book Sense bestseller, Los Angeles Times bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
Sister of My Heart: A Novel (Doubleday, 1999): San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
The Vine of Desire: A Novel (Doubleday, 2002): San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
The Conch Bearer (Brotherhood of the Conch) (Roaring Brook, 2003): Book Sense bestseller
LILLIAN FADERMAN
Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir (Houghton Mifflin, 2003): San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians (Basic Books, 2006): Los Angeles Times bestseller
SUSAN FALUDI
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (Crown, 1991): New York Times bestseller
JOEL GREENBLATT
The Little Book that Beats the Market (Wiley, 2006): New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller
CHALMERS JOHNSON
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (Metropolitan, 2000): New York Times bestseller
Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (Metropolitan, 2004): Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (Metropolitan, 2006): Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller
LAUREN KESSLER
The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes (Random House, 2000): Los Angeles Times
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Vintage, 1989): New York Times bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
China Men (Vintage, 1989): New York Times bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (Vintage, 1990): San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
The Fifth Book of Peace (Knopf, 2003): San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
MELINDA LONG
How I Became a Pirate (Harcourt, 2003): Book Sense bestseller, Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller
ANCHEE MIN
Red Azalea (Pantheon, 1994): Chicago Tribune bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
Becoming Madame Mao (Houghton Mifflin, 2000): Book Sense bestseller, Los Angeles Times bestseller
PAT MONTANDON
Oh the Hell of it All: A Memoir (Harper, 2007): San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
STEPHEN PROTHERO
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know - and Doesn't (Harper One, 2007): New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, Washington Post bestseller
LISA SEE
On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (St. Martin's, 1995): Los Angeles Times bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, Washington Post bestseller
Flower Net (Harper Collins, 1997): Los Angeles Times bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, Washington Post bestseller
The Interior (Harper Collins, 1999): Los Angeles Times bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
Dragon Bones (Random House, 2003): Los Angeles Times bestseller
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House, 2005): Book Sense bestseller, Chicago Tribune bestseller, Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Washington Post bestseller
Peony in Love (Random House, 2007): Chicago Tribune bestseller, Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller, Washington Post bestseller
BARBARA SERANELLA
No Human Involved (Harper Collins, 1997): Los Angeles Times bestseller
Unwanted Company (Harper Collins, 2000): Los Angeles Times bestseller
Unfinished Business (Scribner, 2001): Los Angeles Times bestseller
Unpaid Dues (Scribner, 2003): Los Angeles Times bestseller
Unwilling Accomplice (Scribner, 2004): Los Angeles Times bestseller
SUSAN SHIRK
China: Fragile Superpower (Oxford University Press, 2007): Los Angeles Times bestseller
GARY SMALL & GIGI VORGAN
The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young (Hyperion, 2002): New York Times bestseller
AMY TAN
The Joy Luck Club (Putnam, 1989): Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, Washington Post bestseller
The Kitchen God's Wife (Putnam, 1991): Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, Washington Post bestseller
The Hundred Secret Senses (Putnam, 1995): Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller, Washington Post bestseller
The Bonesetter's Daughter (Putnam, 2001): Book Sense bestseller, Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller, Washington Post bestseller
The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (Putnam, 2003): New York Times bestseller
Saving Fish From Drowning (Putnam, 2005): Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller
LUIS URREA
The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Little, Brown, 2004): Los Angeles Times bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
The Hummingbird's Daughter (Little, Brown, 2005): Book Sense bestseller
KATE WHITE
If Looks Could Kill (Warner, 2002): Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller
A Body to Die For (Warner, 2003): New York Times bestseller
Over Her Dead Body (Warner, 2005): New York Times bestseller
Lethally Blonde (Warner, 2007): New York Times bestseller
IRVIN D. YALOM
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (Harper Collins, 2002): San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Fear of Death (Wiley, 2008): San Francisco Chronicle bestseller