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Bestseller List for April 26, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending April 22, 2012
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Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | Calico Joe John Grisham, Doubleday, $24.95, 9780385536073 A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball. |
1/2 |
2. | Sacré Bleu 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. |
2/3 |
3. | The Innocent- Debut David Baldacci, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446572996 A riveting new thriller by the bestselling author of Absolute Power. |
/1 |
4. | The Beginner's Goodbye 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. |
3/3 |
5. | The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780307378408 McCall Smith's 13th installment in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. |
4/3 |
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. |
6/27 |
7. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309 McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
8/61 |
8. | 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. |
5/4 |
9. | Beastly Things Donna Leon, Atlantic Monthly, $25, 9780802120236 Leon's new Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
7/3 |
10. | The Shoemaker's Wife Adriana Trigiani, Harper, $26.99, 9780061257094 A historical novel of love, family, risk, and destiny by the bestselling author of Lucia, Lucia. |
11/3 |
11. | 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. |
12/31 |
12. | 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. |
10/2 |
13. | Train Dreams Denis Johnson, FSG, $18, 9780374281144 A new novella suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West, by the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of Smoke. |
/3 |
14. | The Witness- Debut Nora Roberts, Putnam Adult, $27.95, 9780399159121 A young woman's life is changed forever after she is seduced by a stranger in Roberts' latest thriller. |
/1 |
15. | 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. |
9/31 |
ON THE RISE | ||
21. | Prague Fatale Philip Kerr, Marian Wood Books/Putnam, $26.95, 9780399159022 Kerr's latest Bernie Gunther novel is a complex tale of spies, terrorism, and treason. |
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