National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for January 19, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending January 15, 2012
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307959850
James draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.
1/6
2. Believing the Lie- Debut
Elizabeth George, Dutton, $28.95, 9780525952589
George's masterful new Inspector Lynley mystery is a January Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
3. The Sense of an Ending
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.
2/13
4. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309
McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.
8/47
5. 11/22/63
Stephen King, Scribner, $35, 9781451627282
King's dramatic new novel about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination.
7/10
6. 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.
3/74
7. 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.
4/32
8. 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.
9/18
9. 1Q84
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30.50, 9780307593313
Murakami's stunning new novel is a tremendous feat of imagination, and a November 2011 Indie Next List Great Read.
5/12
10. 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.
6/14
11. 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.
/17
12. The Orphan Master's Son- Debut
Adam Johnson, Random House, $26, 9780812992793
Johnson's epic story of a young man's journey through the mysterious dictatorship of North Korea is a January Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
13. A Dance With Dragons
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $35, 9780553801477
The magnificent fifth book of Martin's epic fantasy, A Song of Ice and Fire.
12/21
14. The Cat's Table
Michael Ondaatje, Knopf, $26, 9780307700117
Ondaatje's wonderful new novel about an 11-year-old boy on board a ship bound for England in the early 1950s is an October Indie Next List Great Read.
13/13
15. The Litigators
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535137
Grisham's latest is an entertaining novel filled with courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense.
11/12
ON THE RISE
16. How It All Began
Penelope Lively, Viking, $26.95, 9780670023448
Lively's latest novel explores the powerful role of chance in people's lives and the surprising ways lives intersect.
 


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