National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for November 16, 2016
Based on sales for the week ending November 13, 2016
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16.00, 9781476738024
In Backman's charming novel, a grumpy yet lovable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Now a major motion picture.		 1/62
2. The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $16.00, 9780735212152
Hawkins' bestselling debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives is now a major motion picture.		 2/18
3. The Sellout
Paul Beatty, Picador USA, $16.00, 9781250083258
Beatty's biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court is the winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize.		 3/3
4. My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $16.00, 9780812979527
A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge.		 6/5
5. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16.00, 9781501115073
This warmhearted novel by the bestselling author of A Man Called Ove is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.		 4/30
6. In a Dark, Dark Wood
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $16.00, 9781501112331
Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller is soon to be a major motion picture.		 5/20
7. The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16.00, 9780802124944
Nguyen's blistering novel of identity, politics, and America is a 2016 Indies Choice Adult Fiction Honor Book and winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.		 7/30
8. The Swans of Fifth Avenue
Melanie Benjamin, Bantam, $16.00, 9780345528704
Benjamin's triumphant novel about the friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and socialite Babe Paley.		 8/3
9. The Best American Short Stories 2016
Junot Diaz, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780544582897
A very satisfying collection of the year's best short stories.		 9/6
10. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17.00, 9781609450786
A rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends by one of Italy's most acclaimed authors.		 11/76
11. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256
Kaur's collection of poetry and prose about survival and the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.		 10/10
12. Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff, Riverhead, $16.00, 9781594634482
Groff's exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception.		 12/9
13. The Good Girl
Mary Kubica, Mira, $14.95, 9780778317760
Kubica's propulsive debut novel reveals how even in the perfect family, nothing is as it seems.		 /36
14. Arrival- Debut
Ted Chiang, Vintage, $16.00, 9780525433675
Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others. Includes "Story Of Your Life," the basis for the major motion picture Arrival.		 /1
15. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $17.00, 9781501106484
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is a major motion picture.		 /59

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