National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for October 9, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending October 5, 2014
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Broadway, $15, 9780553418361
Flynn's mesmerizing thriller about a marriage gone terribly wrong is now a major motion picture.		 1/6
2. 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.		 2/37
3. This Is Where I Leave You
Jonathan Tropper, Plume, $16, 9780142181713
Tropper's funny and moving novel about a family reunited for a funeral is now a major motion picture.		 3/5
4. 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.		 4/30
5. The Target
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $16, 9781455521180
A riveting thriller featuring Will Robie, by the bestselling author of The Hit.		 10/3
6. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $14.99, 9780062255662
A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror.		 7/18
7. The Silver Star
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $16, 9781451661545
Walls' heartbreaking and redemptive novel about a girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world.		 9/18
8. The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion, S&S, $15.99, 9781476729091
Simsion's heartfelt and humorous debut novel about a college professor's search for the perfect wife.		 5/18
9. We Are Water
Wally Lamb, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780061941030
Lamb's powerful novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy.		 11/8
10. The Museum of Extraordinary Things- Debut
Alice Hoffman, Scribner, $16, 9781451693577
Hoffman's mesmerizing novel of impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New York during the volatile first decades of the 20th century.		 /1
11. The Signature of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $17, 9780143125846
A sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, by the bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love.		 8/15
12. Sycamore Row
John Grisham, Bantam, $16, 9780553393613
In this bestselling thriller, Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters of his first novel, A Time to Kill.		 6/6
13. The Best of Me
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $15, 9781455556557
The powerful love story by the bestselling author of The Notebook is now a major motion picture.		 13/2
14. The Drop
Dennis Lehane, Morrow, $14.99, 9780062365446
Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith.		 /3
15. Under the Wide and Starry Sky- Debut
Nancy Horan, Ballantine, $16, 9780345516541
Horan's beautiful novel about Robert Louis Stevenson and his American wife, Fanny.		 /1

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