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Bestseller List for May 17, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending May 13, 2012
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Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | Bring Up the Bodies- Debut Hilary Mantel, Holt, $28, 9780805090031 The sequel to Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize-winner, Wolf Hall, delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. |
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2. | In One Person- Debut John Irving, S&S, $28, 9781451664126 Irving's intimate and unforgettable new novel about the life of a bisexual man is a May 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
3. | Home- Debut Toni Morrison, Knopf, $24, 9780307594167 Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison new novel is a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war. |
/1 |
4. | Calico Joe John Grisham, Doubleday, $24.95, 9780385536073 A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball. |
2/5 |
5. | Sacré Bleu Christopher Moore, Morrow, $26.99, 9780061779749 Moore's delectable confection of wit, intrigue, passion, and art history is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
3/6 |
6. | Deadlocked Charlaine Harris, Ace , $27.95, 9781937007447 Book 12 in the bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series. |
1/2 |
7. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309 McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
11/64 |
8. | The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780307378408 McCall Smith's 13th installment in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. |
5/6 |
9. | The Beginner's Goodbye Anne Tyler, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307957276 Tyler's haunting and deeply moving new novel about a man grieving the death of his wife is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
8/6 |
10. | The Innocent David Baldacci, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446572996 A riveting new thriller by the bestselling author of Absolute Power. |
7/4 |
11. | 11th Hour- Debut James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316097499 The latest novel in the bestselling Women's Murder Club series. |
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12. | The Wind Through the Keyhole Stephen King, Scribner, $27, 9781451658903 King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of his Dark Tower fantasy saga. |
4/3 |
13. | 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. |
6/30 |
14. | The Shoemaker's Wife Adriana Trigiani, Harper, $26.99, 9780061257094 A historical novel of love, family, risk, and destiny by the bestselling author of Lucia, Lucia. |
10/6 |
15. | 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. |
12/34 |
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