National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for September 20, 2017
Based on sales for the week ending September 17, 2017
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. A Legacy of Spies
John le Carré, Viking, $28.00, 9780735225114
The undisputed master returns with his first Smiley novel in more than 25 years.		 1/2
2. A Column of Fire- Debut
Ken Follett, Viking, $36.00, 9780525954972
The magnificent new Kingsbridge novel by the bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End.		 /1
3. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye- Debut
David Lagercrantz, Knopf, $27.95, 9780451494320
Stieg Larsson's Millennium series continues with this new novel by the bestselling author of The Girl in the Spider's Web.		 /1
4. Little Fires Everywhere- Debut
Celeste Ng, Penguin Press, $27.00, 9780735224292
The riveting new novel by the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You is a September 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
5. My Absolute Darling
Gabriel Tallent, Riverhead, $27.00, 9780735211179
Tallent's profoundly moving debut novel is the #1 Indie Next List Pick for September 2017.		 3/3
6. Glass Houses
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250066190
A gripping new Chief Inspector Gamache novel by the bestselling author of The Nature of the Beast.		 2/3
7. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Viking, $27.00, 9780670026197
Towles' transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel is a September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/54
8. Y Is for Yesterday
Sue Grafton, Marian Wood Books/Putnam, $29.00, 9780399163852
In Grafton's gripping new mystery, Kinsey Millhone investigates one of the darkest and most disturbing cases of her career.		 5/4
9. Camino Island
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385543026
In Grisham's new novel of suspense, a gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library, and a young novelist is hired to go undercover and investigate.		 6/15
10. Enemy of the State
Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills, Atria, $28.99, 9781476783512
Mitch Rapp finds himself alone and targeted by a country that is supposed to be one of America's closest allies.		 9/2
11. The Burning Girl
Claire Messud, Norton, $25.95, 9780393635027
Messud's bracing and hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends is a September 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 11/3
12. The Golden House
Salman Rushdie, Random House, $28.99, 9780399592805
Rushdie's new novel is a modern epic of love and terrorism, loss and reinvention.		 10/2
13. Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward, Scribner, $26.00, 9781501126062
The searing new novel by the bestselling author of Salvage the Bones is a September 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 7/2
14. Forest Dark- Debut
Nicole Krauss, Harper, $27.99, 9780062430991
A breathtakingly original new novel by the bestselling author of The History of Love.		 /1
15. The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385542364
Whitehead's magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South is a September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 12/59

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