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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for October 27, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending October 23, 2011
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides, FSG, $28, 9780374203054 An impressive new novel about the lives of three seniors at Brown University in the early 1980s by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex. |
1/2 |
| 2. | The Sense of an Ending- Debut Julian Barnes, Knopf, $23.95, 9780307957122 In this new novel by the author of Pulse, a middle-aged man contends with a past he has never much thought about. |
/1 |
| 3. | The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385534635 Morgenstern's spell-casting debut novel about a mysterious circus and a duel between two young magicians is a September Indie Next List Great Read. |
3/6 |
| 4. | The Cat's Table Michael Ondaatje, Knopf, $26, 9780307700117 Ondaatje's wonderful new novel about an eleven-year-old boy on board a ship bound for England in the early 1950s is an October Indie Next List Great Read. |
6/3 |
| 5. | The Best of Me Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $25.99, 9780446547659 Two former lovers must confront painful memories and discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. |
2/2 |
| 6. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309 McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
4/35 |
| 7. | The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316126694 Harbach's outstanding debut novel about baseball, ambition, family, friendship, and commitment, is a September Indie Next List Great Read. |
7/8 |
| 8. | The Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman, Scribner, $27.99, 9781451617474 Hoffman's ambitious and mesmerizing new novel, set in ancient Israel, is an October Indie Next List Great Read. |
9/3 |
| 9. | State of Wonder Ann Patchett, Harper, $26.99, 9780062049803 The provocative new novel, set deep in the Amazon jungle, by the author of Bel Canto. |
8/20 |
| 10. | Damned- Debut Chuck Palahniuk, Doubleday, $24.95, 9780385533027 The afterlife as only Palahniuk could imagine it--he makes eternal torment simply divine. |
/1 |
| 11. | The Affair Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780385344326 The suspenseful new Jack Reacher novel by the bestselling author of Worth Dying For. |
5/4 |
| 12. | Zone One- Debut Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $25.95, 9780385528078 Colson's chilling novel brilliantly deconstructs the zombie myth for the 21st century. |
/1 |
| 13. | A Dance With Dragons George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $35, 9780553801477 The highly anticipated fifth book of Martin's epic fantasy, A Song of Ice and Fire. |
11/15 |
| 14. | Snuff Terry Pratchett, Harper, $25.99, 9780062011848 A new Discworld novel by the author of Unseen Academicals. |
10/2 |
| 15. | Reamde Neal Stephenson, Morrow, $35, 9780061977961 Stephenson's new thriller in which a tech entrepreneur gets caught in the very real crossfire of his own online war game is an October Indie Next List Great Read. |
12/5 |