Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for December 6, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending December 2, 2012
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Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List | |
1. | Life of Pi Yann Martel, Mariner, $15.95, 9780547848419 Martel's beloved 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel is now a major motion picture. | 1/5 |
2. | Cloud Atlas David Mitchell, Random House, $15, 9780812984415 The dazzling third novel by the author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is now a major motion picture. | 2/6 |
3. | Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16, 9780312429980 The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize is now available in paperback. | 7/28 |
4. | The Paris Wife- Debut Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316 McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. | /1 |
5. | 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. | 4/26 |
6. | The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern, Anchor, $15, 9780307744432 Morgenstern's spell-casting debut novel about a mysterious circus and a duel between two young magicians. | 6/21 |
7. | Fifty Shades of Grey E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803481 The first novel in James' erotic, amusing, and deeply moving trilogy. | 5/34 |
8. | State of Wonder Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062049810 A provocative novel set deep in the Amazon jungle, by the author of Bel Canto. | 8/29 |
9. | 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. | 3/10 |
10. | The Snow Child Eowyn Ivey, Reagan Arthur/Back Bay Books, $14.99, 9780316175661 Ivey's touching novel is set in the Alaskan wilderness of the 1920s. | 10/4 |
11. | 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. | 12/34 |
12. | Rules of Civility Amor Towles, Penguin, $16, 9780143121169 Towles' captivating debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. | 11/22 |
13. | The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides, Picador, $16, 9781250014764 The impressive novel about the lives of three seniors at Brown University in the early 1980s by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex. | 9/12 |
14. | The Hobbit- Debut J.R.R. Tolkien, Mariner, $13.95, 9780547928227 Tolkien's modern classic and prelude to The Lord of the Rings is now a major motion picture. | /1 |
15. | Fifty Shades Freed E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803504 Book Three in James' bestselling 50 Shades Trilogy. | 14/32 |
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19. | How It All Began Penelope Lively, Penguin, $16, 9780143122647 Lively's novel explores the powerful role of chance in people's lives and the surprising ways lives intersect. |