National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for August 20, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending August 16, 2015
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Martian
Andy Weir, Broadway, $15.00, 9780553418026
Weir's remarkable debut novel about an astronaut stranded on Mars and his fight for survival.		 1/42
2. Euphoria
Lily King, Grove Press, $16.00, 9780802123701
A breathtaking novel about three young anthropologists of the '30s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives.		 2/22
3. Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, Vintage, $15.95, 9780804172448
St. John Mandel's audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse.		 3/11
4. Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $16.00, 9780143127550
Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle to understand one another.		 6/13
5. The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, Back Bay, $20.00, 9780316055444
Tartt's novel--plumbing the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art--is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.		 5/19
6. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Perennial, $14.99, 9780060935467
One of the best-loved stories of all time, Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a masterwork of honor and injustice--and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred.		 4/10
7. The Boston Girl
Anita Diamant, Scribner, $16.00, 9781439199367
Diamant's unforgettable novel about family ties, values, friendship, and feminism seen through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early 20th century.		 10/2
8. The Secret Place
Tana French, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143127512
A riveting Dublin Murder Squad novel by the bestselling author of Faithful Place.		 11/2
9. Grey
E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9781101946343
A fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the world.		 7/9
10. Big Little Lies- Debut
Liane Moriarty, Berkley, $16.00, 9780425274866
A novel about three women, each at a crossroads, by the bestselling author of The Husband's Secret.		 /1
11. 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.		 9/73
12. Ready Player One
Ernest Cline, Broadway, $14.00, 9780307887443
Cline's wildly original and nostalgic debut novel, set in the year 2044.		 /3
13. The Vacationers
Emma Straub, Riverhead, $16.00, 9781594633881
Straub's deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface during an American family's two-week vacation.		 15/11
14. The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion, S&S, $15.99, 9781476729091 (An Indies Introduce Title)
Simsion's heartfelt and humorous debut novel about a college professor's search for the perfect wife.		 14/60
15. Leaving Time
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $16.00, 9780345544940
A deeply moving, gripping, and intelligent novel, Leaving Time is Jodi Picoult at the height of her powers.		 8/15

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