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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for April 12, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending April 8, 2012
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | Sacré Bleu- Debut Christopher Moore, Morrow, $26.99, 9780061779749 Moore's delectable confection of wit, intrigue, passion, and art history is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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| 2. | The Beginner's Goodbye- Debut Anne Tyler, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307957276 Tyler's haunting and deeply moving new novel about a man grieving the death of his wife is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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| 3. | The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection- Debut Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon Books, $24.95, 9780307378408 McCall Smith's 13th installment in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. |
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| 4. | Elegy for Eddie Jacqueline Winspear, Harper, $25.99, 9780062049575 Winspear's powerful new Maisie Dobbs mystery is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
1/2 |
| 5. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309 McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
4/59 |
| 6. | 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. |
2/25 |
| 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 2011 Indie Next List Great Read. |
3/29 |
| 8. | The Shoemaker's Wife- Debut Adriana Trigiani, Harper, $26.99, 9780061257094 A historical novel of love, family, risk, and destiny by the bestselling author of Lucia, Lucia. |
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| 9. | Beastly Things- Debut Donna Leon, Atlantic Monthly, $25, 9780802120236 Leon's new Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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| 10. | A Dance With Dragons George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $35, 9780553801477 The magnificent fifth book of Martin's epic fantasy, A Song of Ice and Fire. |
9/29 |
| 11. | 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. |
7/26 |
| 12. | 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. |
8/18 |
| 13. | The Expats Chris Pavone, Crown, $26, 9780307956354 Pavone's thriller about an American abroad who finds herself in a complex web of intrigue is a March 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
10/5 |
| 14. | Carry the One Carol Anshaw, S&S, $25, 9781451636888 Anshaw's novel about a tragic car accident and the lives of those involved is a March 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
5/3 |
| 15. | 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. |
13/30 |
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| 18. | The Lifeboat Charlotte Rogan, Reagan Arthur Books, $24.99, 9780316185905 Rogan's novel of hard choices and survival is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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