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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Sunday, January 17, 2010

Hawaii best-sellers

Advertiser Staff

This list is a rotating compilation by local booksellers. This week: retail sales at Borders in Ward Centre for Jan. 10.

FICTION

1. "A Reliable Wife" by Robert Goolrick

2. "Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer

3. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown

4. "Pirate Latitudes" by Michael Crichton

5. "The Last Olympian" (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5) by Rick Riordan

6. "Bone Hook" by Ian MacMillan

7. "The Piano Teacher" by Janice Y.K. Lee

8. "Lucky Come Hawaii" by Jon Shirota

9. "Buss Laugh" by Lee Tonouchi

10. "Sands of Lanikai" by Bob Hogue

NONFICTION

1. "Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage" by Elizabeth Gilbert

2. "Kau Kau: Cuisine & Culture in the Hawaiian Islands" by Arnold Hiura

3. "Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan" by Greg Mortenson

4. "The Blind Side" (Movie Tie-in Edition) by Michael Lewis

5. "Ben: A Memoir, from Street Kid to Governor" by Benjamin J. Cayetano

6. "What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures" by Malcolm Gladwell

7. "Hawaii's Best Quick & Easy Recipes" by Jean Watanabe Hee

8. "What Hawai'i Likes to Eat: Hana Hou" by Muriel Miura and Gaylyn Wong

9. "Poke" by Sam Choy

10. "Contemporary Hawai'i Woodworkers" by Tiffany DeEtte Shafto and Lynda McDaniel