National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for February 13, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending February 9, 2014
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Life After Life
Kate Atkinson, Back Bay, $18, 9780316176491
Atkinson's inventive, darkly comic, and startlingly poignant novel about a woman who lives and dies over and over again.		 1/5
2. Dear Life
Alice Munro, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307743725
A brilliant collection of stories from one of the most beloved writers of our time and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.		 2/27
3. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316204262
Semple's compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's roles in an absurd world.		 3/45
4. Tenth of December
George Saunders, Random House, $15, 9780812984255
This unforgettable collection of stories by one of the most original writers of his generation was a National Book Award finalist.		 4/5
5. Me Before You
Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16, 9780143124542
A memorable love story about two people who couldn't have less in common.		 6/28
6. Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline, Morrow, $14.99, 9780061950728
A powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are.		 11/4
7. The Flamethrowers
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $17, 9781439142011
Kushner's riveting novel about a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970s is a National Book Award finalist.		 9/4
8. A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth L. Ozeki, Penguin, $16, 9780143124870
Ozeki's brilliantly inventive and beguiling novel of our shared humanity and the search for home.		 7/6
9. Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061928178
Walter's dazzling yet deeply human novel spans 50 years and nearly as many lives.		 5/45
10. The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062110848
A chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York.		 12/6
11. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan, Picador, $15, 9781250037756
Sloan's dazzling literary adventure, set mostly in a small San Francisco bookstore, is now available in paperback.		 10/20
12. The Son- Debut
Philipp Meyer, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062120403
Meyer's epic novel of the American West is a multigenerational saga of power, blood, land, and oil that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family.		 /1
13. A Week in Winter
Maeve Binchy, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307475503
Binchy's novel looks at the lives of people at an inn in Western Ireland with all of her trademark warmth and humor.		 13/4
14. The Dinner
Herman Koch, Hogarth, $14, 9780385346856
Koch's novel reveals the dark side of genteel society.		 8/15
15. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback.		 15/45
ON THE RISE
17. The Woman Upstairs
Claire Messud, Vintage, $15, 9780307743763
Messud's masterful novel explores the intensity, thrill, and cost of embracing an authentic life.		  

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