National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for October 4, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending September 30, 2012
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Casual Vacancy- Debut
J.K. Rowling, Little Brown, $35, 9780316228534
Rowling's darkly comic and thought provoking first novel for adults.
/1
2. 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.
2/17
3. Winter of the World
Ken Follett, Dutton, $36, 9780525952923
Follett's epic follow-up to Fall of Giants is the second book of his Century Trilogy.
1/2
4. Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon, Harper, $27.99, 9780061493348
Chabon's triumphant new novel set in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland is an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
3/3
5. This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Díaz, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594487361
A new collection of stories by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
5/3
6. A Wanted Man
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780385344333
A new pulse-pounding Jack Reacher novel by the bestselling author of Worth Dying For.
4/3
7. The Time Keeper
Mitch Albom, Hyperion, $24.99, 9781401322786
Albom's latest is a compelling fable about the first man on Earth to count the hours.
6/4
8. NW: A Novel
Zadie Smith, Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594203978
Depicting the modern London urban zone, Smith's latest is a quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and vital, like the city itself.
7/4
9. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316204279
A compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's roles in an absurd world.
8/7
10. 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.
9/54
11. The Yellow Birds
Kevin Powers, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316219365
This powerful novel, written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, is a harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive. A September 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
10/3
12. The Beautiful Mystery
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $25.99, 9780312655464
Penny's new intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache mystery is a September 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
12/5
13. Sutton- Debut
J.R. Moehringer, Hyperion, $27.99, 9781401323141
Pulitzer Prize-winner Moehringer's novel about the life and times of bank robber Willie Sutton is an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
14. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $25, 9781451681734
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is an August 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
11/8
15. San Miguel
T.C. Boyle, Viking, $27.95, 9780670026241
Boyle's haunting historical novel about the lives of three remarkable women on a tiny, windswept island off the coast of Southern California.
15/2


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