National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for March 24, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending March 20, 2011
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country.
1/60
2. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223
Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired).
3/16
3. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616200701
An indie fave about a traveling circus is now a major motion picture.
2/112
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.
4/11
5. The Postmistress
Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691
Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII.
5/7
6. Little Bee
Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648
Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England.
6/57
7. 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.
12/2
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.
8/11
9. 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.
7/93
10. The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Cathleen Schine, Picador, $14, 9780312680527
Schine's wonderful follow-up to her novel The New Yorkers.
9/6
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.
11/45
12. 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.
10/74
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.
13/28
14. The Man from Beijing- Debut
Henning Mankell, Vintage , $15, 9780307472847
An electrifying global thriller by the award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries.
/1
15. Solar- Debut
Ian McEwan, Anchor, $15, 9780307739537
McEwan's latest novel is the tale of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him.
/1
ON THE RISE
16. The Double Comfort Safari Club
Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $14, 9780307277480
The 11th installment in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series is now available in paperback.


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