April 11, 2013


Bestseller List for April 11, 2013
from sales the week ending April 7, 2013
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Bestseller List for April 11, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending April 7, 2013
For an independent bookstore store near you, call 1-888-266-5736,
or visit IndieBound.org.

  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Beautiful Ruins- Debut
Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061928178
Walter's dazzling yet deeply human novel spans 50 years and nearly as many lives.
/1
2. Where'd You Go, Bernadette- Debut
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.
/1
3. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316
McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.
1/19
4. The Great Gatsby
F.Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $15, 9780743273565
Fitzgerald's tale of America in the Jazz Age of the 1920s is a classic of 20th-century literature.
2/14
5. The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Ballantine, $15, 9780345525550
Diffenbaugh's beautiful debut novel about a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others.
6/52
6. The Orchardist
Amanda Coplin, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062188519
Coplin's touching debut novel about a reclusive man who opens his heart and lets the world in.
4/5
7. The Light Between Oceans- Debut
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback.
/1
8. Life of Pi
Yann Martel, Mariner, $15.95, 9780547848419
Martel's beloved 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel is now a major motion picture.
3/23
9. The Prisoner of Heaven
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780062206299
Carlos Ruiz Zafón takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and tells a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, and revenge.
7/4
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $14, 9781451696196
Chbosky's powerful novel of the wild and poignant days of adolescence is now a major motion picture.
5/28
11. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce, Random House, $15, 9780812983456
Joyce's novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we bury within our hearts.
11/2
12. Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James, Vintage, $15, 9780307950659
James draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.
8/14
13. The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307947727
In this novel by the author of Pulse, a middle-aged man contends with a past he has never much thought about.
/43
14. Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16, 9780312429980
The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize is now available in paperback.
14/46
15. World War Z- Debut
Max Brooks, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9780307346612
The story of civilization's battle against the threat of zombies is now a major motion picture.
/1
ON THE RISE
20. The Yard
Alex Grecian, Berkley, $16, 9780425261279
Grecian's outstanding debut novel about Scotland Yard in late Victorian London.
 


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