Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for May 17, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending May 13, 2012
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Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List | |
1. | Fifty Shades of Grey E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803481 The first novel in James' erotic, amusing, and deeply moving trilogy. | 1/6 |
2. | Fifty Shades Darker E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803498 The second book in the 50 Shades Trilogy. | 2/4 |
3. | Fifty Shades Freed E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803504 Book Three in James' bestselling 50 Shades Trilogy. | 3/4 |
4. | State of Wonder- Debut Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062049810 A provocative novel set deep in the Amazon jungle by the author of Bel Canto. | /1 |
5. | The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316126670 Harbach's outstanding debut novel about baseball, ambition, family, friendship, and commitment. | 4/3 |
6. | The Tiger's Wife Téa Obreht, Random House, $15, 9780385343848 Debut author Obreht's breathtaking tale of myth and legend. | 6/28 |
7. | Caleb's Crossing Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $16, 9780143121077 The evocative new novel by the author of People of the Book. | 5/3 |
8. | 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. | 8/6 |
9. | The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka, Anchor, $13.95, 9780307744425 Otsuka's story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago. | 7/8 |
10. | The Weird Sisters Eleanor Brown, Berkley, $15, 9780425244142 Brown's delightful novel about three sisters who love each other, but just don't happen to like each other very much. | 12/14 |
11. | Swamplandia! Karen Russell, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307276681 Russell's wonderfully imaginative debut novel about a run-down Everglades tourist attraction. | 9/31 |
12. | The Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman, Scribner, $16, 9781451617481 Hoffman's ambitious and mesmerizing novel, set in ancient Israel, now available in paperback. | 13/6 |
13. | The House at Tyneford Natasha Solomons, Plume, $15, 9780452297647 A young Jewish woman is forced to flee 1938 Vienna and becomes a parlor maid in England. | 15/19 |
14. | The Family Fang Kevin Wilson, Ecco Press, $13.99, 9780061579059 Wilson's unforgettable tale of a family of performance artists, and the effects of their art on their children. | 11/4 |
15. | The Snowman Jo Nesbø, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307742995 Police investigator Harry Hole is back in a bone-chilling thriller that will take him to the brink of insanity. | 14/4 |