Bestsellers
The following is a partial list of the Dijkstra Agency’s bestsellers.
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
The Good Daughter (Grand Central, 2011): New York Times bestseller, Marin Independent Journal bestseller
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 Scones (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
Fatally Flaky (William Morrow, 2010): New York Times bestseller, Denver Post bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, National Indie bestseller, Barnes & Noble Mass Market bestseller
Crunch Time (HarperCollins, 2011): New York Times bestseller, #1 Barnes and Noble bestseller, Denver Post bestseller, Washington Post bestseller, Bookscan bestseller
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Metropolitan, 1998): Los Angeles Times bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
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
One Amazing Thing (Hyperion, 2010): USA Today "best pick for 2010", San Diego Union-Tribune bestseller, Target "Breakout Book", Costco Book Pick, Hindustan Times bestseller
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
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (Crown, 1991): New York Times bestseller
Demon Hunting in Dixie (Kensington, 2011): Books on Board eBook Bestseller
The Little Book that Beats the Market (Wiley, 2006): New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller
Colossus: The Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century (Free Press, 2010): Wall Street Journal bestseller, IndieBound bestseller, Good Morning America "Top Book Pick for Great Summer Reading", The Caucus's Poli-Books bestseller, Washington Post's "Best Nonfiction of 2010", Los Angeles Times "Holiday Gift Ideas" pick
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
The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes (Random House, 2000): Los Angeles Times
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
Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America (Oxford University Press, 2010): San Francisco Chronicle’s "Best of 2010" pick
How I Became a Pirate (Harcourt, 2003): Book Sense bestseller, Los Angeles Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller
The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future -- Just Enough (Crown, 2011): New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller, #2 in top 100 in Books on Amazon.com
Red Azalea (Pantheon, 1994): Chicago Tribune bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
Becoming Madame Mao (Houghton Mifflin, 2000): Book Sense bestseller, Los Angeles Times bestseller
Pearl of China (Bloomsbury, 2010): San Diego Union Tribune bestseller, Minneapolis Star Tribune bestseller, Denver Post bestseller, IndieBound bestseller
Oh the Hell of it All: A Memoir (Harper, 2007): San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
Borrowing Briliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (Gotham, 2010): "Creativity" bestseller on Amazon, 800 CEO Reads "Best Business Book of 2009"
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know - and Doesn't (Harper One, 2007): New York Times bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, Washington Post bestseller
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World -- and Why Their Differences Matter (HarperOne, 2010): Independent Booksellers extended bestsellers list, HuffingtonPost "Religion's Top Ten of 2010", Apple's "Best Books in 2010, enhanced e-books"
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
Shanghai Girls (Random House, 2010): New York Times bestseller, Los Angeles Times bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, Denver Post bestseller, Boston Globe bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today Top 150, IndieBound bestseller, Entertainment Weekly bestseller
Dreams of Joy (Random House, 2011): New York Times bestseller (debuted at #1), LA Times bestseller, USA Today Top 150, San Francisco Chronicle/NCIBA bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, IndieBound bestseller, NPR bestseller, National Indie Bestseller, Entertainment Weekly bestseller, Amazon’s Bestseller, Barnes and Noble This Hour’s Bestsellers, Politics & Prose bestseller, BookHampton bestseller
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
China: Fragile Superpower (Oxford University Press, 2007): Los Angeles Times bestseller
The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young (Hyperion, 2002): New York Times bestseller
The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist's Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases (William Morrow, 2010): Los Angeles Times bestseller
Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge (Bloomsbury, 2010): San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, Los Angeles Times bestseller
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
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
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
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
