National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for December 8, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending December 4, 2011
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. 11/22/63
Stephen King, Scribner, $35, 9781451627282
King's dramatic new novel about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination.		 1/4
2. The Drop- Debut
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316069410
Connelly's masterful new Harry Bosch thriller is a December Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
3. The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides, FSG, $28, 9780374203054
An impressive new novel about the lives of three seniors at Brown University in the early 1980s by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex.		 3/8
4. The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes, Knopf, $23.95, 9780307957122
In this new novel by the author of Pulse, a middle-aged man contends with a past he has never much thought about.		 2/7
5. The Litigators
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535137
Grisham's latest is an entertaining novel filled with courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense.		 7/6
6. 1Q84
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30.50, 9780307593313
Murakami's stunning new novel is a tremendous feat of imagination, and a November 2011 Indie Next List Great Read.		 5/6
7. The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316126694
Harbach's outstanding debut novel about baseball, ambition, family, friendship, and commitment, is a September Indie Next List Great Read.		 10/13
8. V Is for Vengeance
Sue Grafton, Marian Wood Books/Putnam, $27.95, 9780399157868
A new Kinsey Millhone mystery by the bestselling author of U Is for Undertow.		 6/3
9. The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385534635
Morgenstern's spell-casting debut novel about a mysterious circus and a duel between two young magicians is a September Indie Next List Great Read.		 8/12
10. The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 9780547577531
Eco's highly anticipated new historical novel about conspiracies and conspiracy theories is a November Indie Next List Great Read.		 11/4
11. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309
McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.		 13/41
12. Explosive Eighteen
Janet Evanovich, Bantam, $28, 9780345527714
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's dream vacation turns into a nightmare in Evanovich's latest comedic mystery.		 4/2
13. The Scottish Prisoner- Debut
Diana Gabaldon, Delacorte, $28, 9780385337519
A captivating new Lord John novel from the bestselling author of the Outlander series.		 /1
14. Out of Oz
Gregory Maguire, Morrow, $26.99, 9780060548940
The remarkable conclusion to McGuire's bestselling Wicked Years series.		 9/5
15. 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.		 15/26


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