National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for March 29, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending March 25, 2012
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht, Random House, $15, 9780385343848
Debut author Obreht's breathtaking tale of myth and legend.
1/21
2. The Weird Sisters
Eleanor Brown, Berkley, $15, 9780425244142
Brown's delightful novel about three sisters who love each other, but just don't happen to like each other very much.
3/7
3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307454560
The stunning third and final novel in Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy.
2/5
4. The House at Tyneford
Natasha Solomons, Plume, $15, 9780452297647
A young Jewish woman is forced to flee 1938 Vienna and becomes a parlor maid in England.
4/12
5. The Buddha in the Attic- Debut
Julie Otsuka, Anchor, $13.95, 9780307744425
Otsuka's story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago.
/1
6. The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132
Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s.
7/51
7. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country.
5/113
8. A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477
Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback.
9/53
9. The Sisters Brothers
Patrick DeWitt, Ecco, $14.99, 9780062041289
DeWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force.
/5
10. Swamplandia!
Karen Russell, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307276681
Russell's wonderfully imaginative debut novel about a run-down Everglades tourist attraction is now available in paperback.
6/24
11. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307949493
The first installment in the bestselling thriller trilogy by the late Swedish journalist Larsson.
/16
12. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307472984
The new No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novel follows The Double Comfort Safari Club.
10/3
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.
13/144
14. A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness, Penguin, $16, 9780143119685
A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and a mysterious manuscript.
14/13
15. Doc
Mary Doria Russell, Ballantine, $15, 9780812980004
Russell's vibrant novel about John Henry "Doc" Holliday.
11/3
ON THE RISE
19. Clara and Mr. Tiffany
Susan Vreeland, Random House , $15, 9780812980189
An evocative novel of New York near the turn of the 20th century by the author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue.
 


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