National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for March 17, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending March 12, 2011
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Tiger's Wife - Debut
Téa Obreht, Random House, $25, 9780385343831
Debut author Obreht tells a tale of myth and legend in this #1 Indie Next Great Read for March 2011.		 /1
2. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309
This new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway is a March Indie Next List Great Read.		 3/3
3. Sing You Home
Jodi Picoult, Atria, $28, 9781439102725
Picoult's new book is about about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood.		 2/2
4. The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $29.95, 9780756404734
The mesmerizing sequel to Rothfuss' debut fantasy, The Name of the Wind.		 1/2
5. A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95, 9780670022410
This richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and a mysterious manuscript is a February Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/5
6. Swamplandia!
Karen Russell, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307263995
Russell's beautiful and inventive debut novel is a February Indie Next List Great Read.		 8/6
7. Room
Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316098335
Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child.		 7/27
8. 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.		 5/42
9. 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.		 6/109
10. When the Killing's Done
T.C. Boyle, Viking , $26.95, 9780670022328
The new novel by the author of The Women is a March Indie Next Great Read.		 9/3
11. Minding Frankie
Maeve Binchy, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307273567
Binchy is back with a tale about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community.		 10/2
12. 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.		 12/28
13. 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.		 13/24
14. West of Here
Jonathan Evison, Algonquin, $24.95, 9781565129528
Evison's epic novel about the fictional town of Port Bonita, Washington, is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for February.		 14/5
15. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing - Debut
Jasper Fforde, Viking, $25.95, 9780670022526
With heroine Thursday Next in apparent retirement, "written" Thursday must step in to save BookWorld.		 /1
ON THE RISE
16. The Jungle
Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul, Putnam Adult, $27.95, 9780399157042
The latest installment in the high-octane Oregon Files series.		  


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