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National Indie Bestsellers
Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for March 17, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending March 12, 2011
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| Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. |
1/59 |
| 2. | Water for Elephants Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616200701 An indie fave about a traveling circus is now a major motion picture. |
5/111 |
| 3. | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223 Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired). |
2/15 |
| 4. | The Imperfectionists Tom Rachman, Dial, $15, 9780385343671 Rachman's wry debut novel follows the lives of the staff of an international English-language newspaper in Rome. |
3/10 |
| 5. | The Postmistress Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691 Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII. |
4/6 |
| 6. | Little Bee Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648 Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England. |
6/56 |
| 7. | The Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein, Harper, $14.99, 9780061537967 A look at life through the eyes of Enzo, a mixed-breed pooch. |
10/92 |
| 8. | The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Heidi W. Durrow, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781616200152 Durrow's searing debut is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction addressing issues of social justice. |
7/10 |
| 9. | The Three Weissmanns of Westport Cathleen Schine, Picador, $14, 9780312680527 Schine's wonderful follow-up to her novel The New Yorkers. |
9/5 |
| 10. | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford, Ballantine, $15, 9780345505347 An evocative novel of Japanese-Americans in Seattle during World War II. |
13/73 |
| 11. | Tinkers Paul Harding, Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95, 9781934137123 Harding's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel looks at love, loss, and the beauty of nature. |
11/44 |
| 12. | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell, Random House, $15, 9780812976366 The riveting novel by the author of Cloud Atlas was a July 2010 Indie Next List Great Read in hardcover. |
/1 |
| 13. | Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9781416586296 Walls follows up her bestselling memoir, The Glass Castle, with this true-life novel about her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith. |
12/27 |
| 14. | Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann, Random House, $15, 9780812973990 McCann's lyrical novel about Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center is the winner of the 2009 National Book Award for fiction. |
14/65 |
| 15. | True Grit Charles Portis, Overlook, $14.95, 9781590204597 A new edition of Portis' classic novel and the basis for the new film directed by the Coen brothers. |
8/10 |
| ON THE RISE | ||
| 19. | Solar Ian McEwan, Anchor, $15, 9780307739537 McEwan's latest novel is the tale of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. |
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