National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for August 20, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending August 16, 2015
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee, Harper, $27.99, 9780062409850
Lee's landmark new novel, which is set two decades after To Kill a Mockingbird, is actually the first draft of the story she reworked to create her Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece.		 1/5
2. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27.00, 9781476746586
Doerr's beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France during World War II is a May 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 2/61
3. The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594633669
Hawkins' debut is a psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. A January 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 3/25
4. Circling the Sun
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $28.00, 9780345534187
The engrossing new novel by the bestselling author of The Paris Wife is an August 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/3
5. Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $25.95, 9780385352123
Widely available in English for the first time, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself, Wind/Pinball gives us a fascinating insight into a great writer's beginnings.		 5/2
6. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $27.99, 9780312577223
Hannah's heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women is a February 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 7/28
7. Kitchens of the Great Midwest (An Indies Introduce Title)
J.Ryan Stradal, Pamela Dorman Books, $25.00, 9780525429142
By turns quirky, hilarious, and vividly sensory, Stradal's debut novel is an August 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 6/3
8. The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George, Crown, $25.00, 9780553418774
George's heartwarming new novel is a July 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 8/8
9. The Marriage of Opposites
Alice Hoffman, S&S, $27.99, 9781451693591
Hoffman's new novel is a forbidden love story set on St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro, the Father of Impressionism. An August 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 12/2
10. Armada
Ernest Cline, Crown, $26.00, 9780804137256
Cline's rollicking and surprising new novel is an August 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 9/5
11. The English Spy
Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99, 9780062320131
A stunning new Gabriel Allon novel by the bestselling author of The English Assassin.		 10/7
12. Luckiest Girl Alive
Jessica Knoll, S&S, $25.00, 9781476789637
Knoll's novel introduces a heroine whose sharp edges and cutthroat ambition have been protecting a scandalous truth, and a heart that's bigger than it first appears.		 11/11
13. Who Do You Love- Debut
Jennifer Weiner, Atria, $27.00, 9781451617818
An unforgettable novel about true love, real life, and second chances, by the bestselling author of All Fall Down.		 /1
14. Alert
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge, Little Brown, $28.00, 9780316407038
Detective Michael Bennett and the FBI's Emily Parker have to catch the shadowy criminals who claim responsibility for two high-tech attacks on New York.		 13/2
15. In the Unlikely Event
Judy Blume, Knopf, $27.95, 9781101875049
Blume's richly textured and moving story of three generations of families, friends, and strangers whose lives are profoundly changed by unexpected events.		 14/11
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17. In a Dark, Dark Wood
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $26.00, 9781501112317
Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller is a September 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		  

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