National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for May 26, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending May 22, 2011
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Caleb's Crossing
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $26.95, 9780670021048
The evocative new novel by the author of People of the Book is a May Indie Next List Great Read.		 1/3
2. The Snowman
Jo Nesbø, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307595867
Nesbø's latest thriller involving a search for a serial killer is a May Indie Next List Great Read.		 7/2
3. 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.		 3/13
4. 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.		 4/11
5. Dead Reckoning
Charlaine Harris, Ace, $27.95, 9780441020317
The new Sookie Stackhouse novel by the author Dead in the Family.		 2/3
6. 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.		 5/7
7. 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.		 10/52
8. The Land of Painted Caves
Jean M. Auel, Crown, $30, 9780517580516
The sixth and final installment in Auel's popular Earth's Children series.		 6/8
9. Sixkill
Robert B. Parker, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399157264
An extraordinary new Spenser novel by the author of Painted Ladies.		 8/3
10. 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.		 11/8
11. Buried Prey
John Sandford, Putnam, $27.95, 9780399157387
Sandford's brilliant new Lucas Davenport thriller.		 9/2
12. Doc- Debut
Mary Doria Russell, Random House, $26, 9781400068043
Russell's vibrant novel about Doc Holliday is a May Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
13. The Story of Beautiful Girl
Rachel Simon, Grand Central, $24.99, 9780446574464
Simon's enthralling new novel is a May Indie Next List Great Read.		 15/2
14. The Sixth Man
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446573108
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in Baldacci's latest bestselling thriller.		 12/5
15. 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.		 14/9
ON THE RISE
16. Embassytown
China Mieville, Del Rey, $26, 9780345524492
An extraordinary novel that is a moving personal drama but also a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.


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