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Bestseller List for March 31, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending March 27, 2011
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Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | The Tiger's Wife Tea 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. |
1/3 |
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. |
2/5 |
3. | The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party- Debut Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780307378392 The new No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novel following The Double Comfort Safari Club. |
/1 |
4. | A Lesson in Secrets- Debut Jacqueline Winspear, Harper, $25.99, 9780061727672 Winspear's new Maisie Dobbs novel is an April Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
5. | Sing You Home Jodi Picoult, Atria, $28, 9781439102725 Picoult's new book is about about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. |
3/4 |
6. | Live Wire- Debut Harlan Coben, Dutton, $27.95, 9780525952060 An explosive new thriller by the bestselling author of Long Lost. |
/1 |
7. | Room Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316098335 Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child. |
8/29 |
8. | Started Early, Took My Dog Kate Atkinson, Reagan Arthur Books, $24.99, 9780316066730 The brilliant new novel featuring Jackson Brodie by the author of When Will There Be Good News? |
10/2 |
9. | The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $29.95, 9780756404734 The mesmerizing sequel to Rothfuss' debut fantasy, The Name of the Wind. |
4/4 |
10. | 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. |
5/44 |
11. | 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. |
9/111 |
12. | 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. |
6/7 |
13. | Swamplandia! Karen Russell, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307263995 Russell's beautiful and inventive debut novel is a February Indie Next List Great Read. |
7/8 |
14. | 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. |
12/4 |
15. | 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. |
13/5 |
ON THE RISE | ||
17. | Drawing Conclusions Donna Leon, Atlantic Monthly, $24, 9780802119797 Leon's latest Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery is an April Indie Next List Great Read. |
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