National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for May 26, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending May 22, 2011
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425232200
Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s.
1/7
2. A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477
Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback.
2/9
3. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country.
4/69
4. Room
Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328
Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child.
5/2
5. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616200701
An indie fave about a traveling circus is now a major motion picture.
3/121
6. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223
Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired).
6/25
7. The Postmistress
Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691
Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII.
8/16
8. Little Bee
Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648
Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England.
9/66
9. Our Kind of Traitor
John le Carre, Penguin, $15, 9780143119722
A remarkable novel of intrigue by the bestselling author of The Constant Gardener.
10/4
10. 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.
7/20
11. Island Beneath the Sea
Isabel Allende, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780061988257
An entrancing historical novel by the bestselling author of Ines of My Soul.
14/3
12. Matterhorn
Karl Marlantes, Grove Press, $15.95, 9780802145314
Marlantes' epic novel of the Vietnam War is now available in paperback.
13/2
13. 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.
12/102
14. Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart, Random House, $15, 9780812977868
The new satiric novel by the author of Absurdistan.
11/2
15. Imperfect Birds
Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $15, 9781594485046
A powerful and redemptive novel about love and family, from the bestselling author of Grace (Eventually).
15/7
ON THE RISE
18. The Passage
Justin Cronin, Ballantine , $16, 9780345504975
Cronin's terrifying and entertaining novel about post-apocalyptic America is available in paperback.


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