National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for April 17, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending April 13, 2014
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. 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.		 3/13
2. The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer, Riverhead, $17, 9781594632341
Wolitzer's dazzling novel features complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City.		 2/3
3. Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $15.95, 9780307455925
A dazzling novel of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria, by the author of Half of a Yellow Sun.		 1/6
4. 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.		 4/54
5. The Burgess Boys- Debut
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $15, 9780812979510
The remarkable new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge.		 /1
6. 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.		 5/14
7. Me Before You
Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16, 9780143124542
A memorable love story about two people who couldn't have less in common.		 6/37
8. A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki, Penguin, $16, 9780143124870
Ozeki's brilliantly inventive and beguiling novel of our shared humanity and the search for home.		 9/15
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.		 7/54
10. 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.		 8/36
11. Paris
Edward Rutherfurd, Ballantine, $18, 9780345530769
By the bestselling author of London and New York, Paris is a a dazzling portrait of the City of Light.		 12/2
12. 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.		 13/29
13. 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.		 10/13
14. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback.		 15/50
15. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Anthony Marra, Hogarth, $15, 9780770436421
In Marra's sweeping debut novel, a resilient doctor risks everything to save the life of a hunted child during wartime.		 14/9
ON THE RISE
17. Leaving Everything Most Loved
Jacqueline Winspear, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062049612
Maisie Dobbs investigates the murder of Indian immigrants in London.		  

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