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National Indie Bestsellers
Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for October 27, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending October 23, 2011
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| Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | The Help Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132 Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s. |
1/29 |
| 2. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. |
2/91 |
| 3. | Freedom Jonathan Franzen, Picador, $16, 9780312576462 The new novel by the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections. |
3/4 |
| 4. | A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477 Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback. |
4/31 |
| 5. | Sarah's Key Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $13.99, 9781250004345 This mesmerizing story of a tragic past, and a present torn apart, is now a major motion picture. |
5/114 |
| 6. | Room Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328 Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child. |
6/24 |
| 7. | Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus.), Back Bay, $13.99, 9780316038409 A funny collection of animal-themed tales for adults by the bestselling author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames. |
7/3 |
| 8. | Started Early, Took My Dog Kate Atkinson, Reagan Arthur Books, $14.99, 9780316066747 The brilliant new novel featuring Jackson Brodie by the author of When Will There Be Good News? |
8/4 |
| 9. | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223 Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired). |
9/47 |
| 10. | 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. |
10/124 |
| 11. | A Secret Kept Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $14.99, 9780312553494 The evocative new novel by the author of Sarah's Key. |
11/6 |
| 12. | Sing You Home- Debut Jodi Picoult, Atria, $16, 9781439102732 Picoult's satisfying novel about about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. |
/1 |
| 13. | The Postmistress Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691 Blake's stirring debut novel is set during World War II. |
13/38 |
| 14. | 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. |
12/89 |
| 15. | The Best American Short Stories 2011 Geraldine Brooks, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780547242163 A very satisfying collection of the year's best short stories. |
/2 |