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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for August 4, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending July 31, 2011
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | State of Wonder Ann Patchett, Harper, $26.99, 9780062049803 The provocative new novel, set deep in the Amazon jungle, by the author of Bel Canto is a June Indie Next List Great Read. |
2/8 |
| 2. | A Dance With Dragons George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $35, 9780553801477 The highly anticipated fifth book of Martin's epic fantasy, A Song of Ice and Fire. |
1/3 |
| 3. | 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. |
3/23 |
| 4. | Ghost Story- Debut Jim Butcher, Roc, $27.95, 9780451463791 The 13th book in Butcher's popular Dresden Files series. |
/1 |
| 5. | Portrait of a Spy Daniel Silva, Harper, $26.99, 9780062072184 International anti-terrorism expert Gabriel Allon returns in this new thriller by the author of The Rembrandt Affair. |
4/2 |
| 6. | Rules of Civility- Debut Amor Towles, Viking, $26.95, 9780670022694 Towles's captivating debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose is an August Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
| 7. | Maine J. Courtney Sullivan, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307595126 By turns wickedly funny and achingly sad, Maine unveils the sibling rivalry, alcoholism, social climbing, and Catholic guilt at the center of one family. |
5/7 |
| 8. | The Last Werewolf Glen Duncan, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307595089 Duncan's original tale of Jake, a werewolf who is the last of his species, is a July Indie Next List Great Read. |
6/3 |
| 9. | Caleb's Crossing Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $26.95, 9780670021048 The evocative new novel by the author of People of the Book is a May Indie Next List Great Read. |
10/13 |
| 10. | 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. |
8/21 |
| 11. | 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. |
7/62 |
| 12. | Turn of Mind Alice LaPlante, Atlantic Monthly, $24, 9780802119773 LaPlante's stunning debut novel about the deception and frailty of memory is a July Indie Next List Great Read. |
9/3 |
| 13. | Then Came You Jennifer Weiner, Atria, $26.99, 9781451617726 A timely tale that interweaves themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and donorship, the rights of a parent, and the measure of motherhood. |
15/3 |
| 14. | The Hypnotist Lars Kepler, Sarah Crichton Books/FSG, $27, 9780374173951 Kepler's spellbinding novel about a murderer at large in Sweden is a July Indie Next List Great Read. |
/2 |
| 15. | Conquistadora- Debut Esmeralda Santiago, Knopf, $27.50, 9780307268327 An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the author of the bestselling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican. |
/1 |
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| 20. | The Devil All the Time Donald Ray Pollock, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385535045 Pollock's novel is dark and riveting vision of America from the end of World War II to the 1960s, and a July Indie Next List Great Read. |
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