National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for June 21, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending June 17, 2012
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Canada
Richard Ford, Ecco, $27.99, 9780061692048
Ford's masterful new novel about the mysterious and consoling bonds of family is a June 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
3/4
2. Mission to Paris- Debut
Alan Furst, Random House, $27, 9781400069484
A dazzling new novel of intrigue by the bestselling author of Spies of the Balkans.
/1
3. 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.
5/10
4. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25, 9780307588364
Flynn's new thriller about a marriage gone terribly wrong is a June 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
1/2
5. Bring Up the Bodies
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.
2/6
6. In One Person
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.
4/6
7. A Blaze of Glory
Jeff Shaara, Ballantine, $28, 9780345527356
Shaara's latest riveting historical novel looks at the Battle of Shiloh.
10/3
8. 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.
8/11
9. 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.
7/39
10. Home
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.
6/6
11. Istanbul Passage
Joseph Kanon, Atria, $26, 9781439156414
Kanon's haunting novel about a man swept up in the dawn of the Cold War is a June 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
9/3
12. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309
McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.
11/69
13. Beautiful Ruins- Debut
Jess Walter, Harper, $25.99, 9780061928123
Walter's dazzling yet deeply human new novel, spanning 50 years and nearly as many lives, is a July 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
14. The Innocent
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446572996
A riveting new thriller by the bestselling author of Absolute Power.
12/9
15. 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.
/22
ON THE RISE
16. The Yard
Alex Grecian, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399149542
Grecian's outstanding debut novel about Scotland Yard in late Victorian London is a June 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
 


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