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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for May 5, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending May 1, 2011
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | The Tiger's Wife Tea Obreht, Random House, $25, 9780385343831 Debut author Obreht tells a tale of myth and legend in this #1 Indie Next Great Read for March 2011. |
1/8 |
| 2. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309 This new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway is a March Indie Next List Great Read. |
4/10 |
| 3. | The Land of Painted Caves Jean M. Auel, Crown, $30, 9780517580516 The sixth and final installment in Auel's popular Earth's Children series. |
2/5 |
| 4. | She Walks in Beauty Caroline Kennedy (Ed.), Hyperion, $24.99, 9781401341459 Caroline Kennedy has marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay tribute to the human experience. |
6/4 |
| 5. | The Pale King David Foster Wallace, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316074230 A deeply compelling and satisfying novel that remained unfinished at the time of Wallace's death in 2008. |
3/5 |
| 6. | The Fifth Witness Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316069359 Connelly's latest legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller. |
5/4 |
| 7. | The Sixth Man David Baldacci, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446573108 Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in Baldacci's latest bestselling thriller. |
8/2 |
| 8. | 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. |
10/49 |
| 9. | The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780307378392 The new No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novel following The Double Comfort Safari Club. |
9/6 |
| 10. | Horoscopes for the Dead Billy Collins, Random House, $24, 9781400064922 A new collection of poems by the former U.S. Poet Laureate and bestselling author of Ballistics. |
7/4 |
| 11. | The Troubled Man Henning Mankell, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307593498 Mankell's brilliant new Kurt Wallander novel is an April Indie Next List Great Read. |
11/5 |
| 12. | The Tragedy of Arthur- Debut Arthur Phillips, Random House, $26, 9781400066476 A virtuosic new novel by the internationally bestselling author of The Song Is You. |
/1 |
| 13. | The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $29.95, 9780756404734 The mesmerizing sequel to Rothfuss' debut fantasy, The Name of the Wind. |
/8 |
| 14. | Room Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316098335 Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child. |
13/34 |
| 15. | Sing You Home Jodi Picoult, Atria, $28, 9781439102725 Picoult's new book is about about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. |
/8 |
| ON THE RISE | ||
| 26. | One Was a Soldier Julia Spencer-Fleming, Minotaur, $24.99, 9780312334895 Spencer-Fleming's new Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne mystery. |
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