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Bestseller List for February 23, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending February 19, 2012
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Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | Death Comes to Pemberley P.D. James, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307959850 James draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem. |
1/11 |
2. | 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. |
3/18 |
3. | 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 2011 Indie Next List Great Read. |
4/22 |
4. | Kill Shot Vince Flynn, Atria, $27.99, 9781416595205 CIA super agent Mitch Rapp returns in the latest thriller by the author of American Assassin. |
2/2 |
5. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309 McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
5/52 |
6. | What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories- Debut Nathan Englander, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307958709 This collection of eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander is an Indie Next List Great Read for February 2012. |
/1 |
7. | 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. |
13/19 |
8. | The Wolf Gift- Debut Anne Rice, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307595119 An intriguing novel about the making of a werewolf, as only Anne Rice could create. |
/1 |
9. | 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. |
7/37 |
10. | 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. |
10/15 |
11. | Raylan Elmore Leonard, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062119469 In his latest masterful novel, Leonard brings back U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the mesmerizing hero of the hit FX program Justified. |
6/5 |
12. | The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson, Random House, $26, 9780812992793 Johnson's epic story of a young man's journey through the mysterious dictatorship of North Korea is a January Indie Next List Great Read. |
12/6 |
13. | Believing the Lie Elizabeth George, Dutton, $28.95, 9780525952589 George's masterful new Inspector Lynley mystery is a January Indie Next List Great Read. |
8/6 |
14. | 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 2011 Indie Next List Great Read. |
15/23 |
15. | Defending Jacob- Debut William Landay, Delacorte, $26, 9780385344227 Landay's suspenseful novel about guilt, betrayal, and a family in crisis is a February Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
ON THE RISE | ||
18. | The House I Loved Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's, $25.99, 9780312593308 A poignant story of one woman's indelible strength, and an ode to Paris, where houses harbor the joys and sorrows of their inhabitants. |
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