National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for January 13, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending January 9, 2011
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307269997
The stunning third and final novel in Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy.		 2/33
2. Freedom
Jonathan Franzen, FSG, $28, 9780374158460
The new novel by the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections is a September Indie Next List Great Read.		 1/19
3. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus.), Little Brown, $21.99, 9780316038393
A funny, new collection of animal-themed tales for adults by the bestselling author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames.		 3/15
4. Room
Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316098335
Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child is the #1 September Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/18
5. The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95, 9780399155345
This wonderful debut set in the rural South of the 1960s is a February 2009 Indie Next List Great Read.		 6/100
6. An Object of Beauty
Steve Martin, Grand Central, $26.99, 9780446573641
Martin's latest novel is an engaging and clever look at the New York City art scene.		 5/7
7. Fall of Giants
Ken Follett, Dutton, $36, 9780525951650
Book One of Follett's Century Trilogy is an October '10 Indie Next List Notable selection.		 9/15
8. Dead or Alive
Tom Clancy, Grant Blackwood, Putnam, $28.95, 9780399157233
Jack Ryan, Jr. searches for an international killer in Clancy's latest bestselling thriller.		 7/5
9. The Confession
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385528047
In Grisham's latest thriller, an innocent man is about to be executed, and only a guilty man can save him.		 8/11
10. The Lake of Dreams- Debut
Kim Edwards, Viking, $26.95, 9780670022175
The new novel by the author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a January 2011 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
11. A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307592835
An exhilarating new novel by the author of The Keep.		 11/2
12. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
David Mitchell, Random House, $26, 9781400065455
The riveting new novel by the author of Cloud Atlas is a July Indie Next List Great Read.		 /15
13. Damage- Debut
John Lescroart, Dutton , $26.95, 9780525951766
Lescroart's novel is an explosive look at the seductive power of revenge and the terrible costs of justice.		 /1
14. What the Night Knows
Dean Koontz, Bantam, $28, 9780553807721
A chilling ghost story by the author of Breathless.		 15/2
15. Lord of Misrule
Jaimy Gordon, McPherson, $25, 9780929701837
Gordon's novel is the 2010 National Book Award winner for fiction.		 10/3
ON THE RISE
20. The Empty Family
Colm Toibin, Scribner, $24, 9781439138328
A captivating collection of stories by the author of Brooklyn.


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