March 6, 2019



Bestseller List for March 6, 2019
Based on sales for the week ending March 3, 2019
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris, Harper, $16.99, 9780062797155
A testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions. A September 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.
1/26
2. The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin, Putnam, $16.00, 9780735215092
Benjamin's sweeping novel probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next.
2/4
3. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman, Penguin, $16.00, 9780735220690
Honeyman's novel is a smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and wit make for an irresistible journey.
3/39
4. Less
Andrew Sean Greer, Back Bay, $15.99, 9780316316132
A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, and a bittersweet romance of chances lost. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
4/41
5. An American Marriage
Tayari Jones, Algonquin Books, $16.95, 9781616208684
Jones' novel is a stirring love story that looks into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control.
5/4
6. The Power
Naomi Alderman, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316547604
Alderman's novel is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality, and exposing our own world in bold and surprising ways.
6/8
7. The Lost Girls of Paris
Pam Jenoff, Park Row, $16.99, 9780778330271
Jenoff's remarkable novel of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II is a February 2019 Indie Next List Great Read.
7/5
8. The Friend
Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead Books, $16.00, 9780735219458
Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion. Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for fiction.
10/4
9. The Wife Between Us
Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen, St. Martin's Griffin, $16.99, 9781250130945
The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage, and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love.
8/18
10. The Huntress- Debut
Kate Quinn, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062740373
A fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America. A March 2019 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
11. I Was Anastasia
Ariel Lawhon, Anchor, $16.00, 9781101973318
Lawhon's novel unravels the twists and turns in Anna Anderson's battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the beloved daughter, revered icon, and Russian grand duchess, or is she an imposter?
9/4
12. If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin, Vintage, $14.95, 9780525566120
Baldwin's honest and stunning novel is a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Now a major motion picture.
/7
13. The Perfect Couple
Elin Hilderbrand, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316375252
Hilderbrand's novel about the many ways family can fill our lives with love...if they don't kill us first.
11/2
14. Pachinko
Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $15.99, 9781455563920
This tour de force by the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires is a 2017 National Book Award Finalist.
/67
15. Milkman
Anna Burns, Graywolf Press, $16.00, 9781644450000
Told with ferocious energy and sly, wicked humor, Milkman establishes Anna Burns as one of the most consequential voices of our day. Winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
13/13


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