National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for January 6, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending January 2, 2011
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Freedom
Jonathan Franzen, FSG, $28, 9780374158460
The new novel by the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections is a September Indie Next List Great Read.		 2/18
2. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307269997
The stunning third and final novel in Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy.		 4/32
3. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus.), Little Brown, $21.99, 9780316038393
A funny, new collection of animal-themed tales for adults by the bestselling author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames.		 1/14
4. Room
Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316098335
Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child is the #1 September Indie Next List Great Read.		 9/17
5. An Object of Beauty
Steve Martin, Grand Central, $26.99, 9780446573641
Martin's latest novel is an engaging and clever look at the New York City art scene.		 5/6
6. The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95, 9780399155345
This wonderful debut set in the rural South of the 1960s is a February 2009 Indie Next List Great Read.		 3/99
7. Dead or Alive
Tom Clancy, Grant Blackwood, Putnam, $28.95, 9780399157233
Jack Ryan, Jr. searches for an international killer in Clancy's latest bestselling thriller.		 8/4
8. The Confession
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385528047
In Grisham's latest thriller, an innocent man is about to be executed, and only a guilty man can save him.		 7/10
9. Fall of Giants
Ken Follett, Dutton, $36, 9780525951650
Book One of Follett's Century Trilogy is an October '10 Indie Next List Notable selection.		 6/14
10. Lord of Misrule
Jaimy Gordon, McPherson, $25, 9780929701837
Gordon's novel is the 2010 National Book Award winner for fiction.		 /2
11. A Visit From the Goon Squad- Debut
Jennifer Egan, Knopf , $25.95, 9780307592835
An exhilarating new novel by the author of The Keep.		 /1
12. Luka and the Fire of Life
Salman Rushdie, Random House, $25, 9780679463368
Rushdie's magical sequel to his fable Haroun and the Sea of Stories.		 11/6
13. Port Mortuary
Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $27.95, 9780399157219
Bestselling author Cornwell's 18th Kay Scarpetta novel.		 14/5
14. Our Kind of Traitor
John le Carre, Viking, $27.95, 9780670022243
A remarkable new novel of intrigue by the bestselling author of The Constant Gardener.		 12/12
15. What the Night Knows- Debut
Dean Koontz, Bantam, $28, 9780553807721
A chilling ghost story by the author of Breathless.		 /1


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