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Bestseller List for June 21, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending June 17, 2012
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Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | Canada Richard Ford, Ecco, $27.99, 9780061692048 Ford's masterful new novel about the mysterious and consoling bonds of family is a June 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
3/4 |
2. | Mission to Paris- Debut Alan Furst, Random House, $27, 9781400069484 A dazzling new novel of intrigue by the bestselling author of Spies of the Balkans. |
/1 |
3. | 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. |
5/10 |
4. | Gone Girl Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25, 9780307588364 Flynn's new thriller about a marriage gone terribly wrong is a June 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
1/2 |
5. | Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel, Holt, $28, 9780805090031 The sequel to Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize-winner, Wolf Hall, delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. |
2/6 |
6. | In One Person John Irving, S&S, $28, 9781451664126 Irving's intimate and unforgettable new novel about the life of a bisexual man is a May 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
4/6 |
7. | A Blaze of Glory Jeff Shaara, Ballantine, $28, 9780345527356 Shaara's latest riveting historical novel looks at the Battle of Shiloh. |
10/3 |
8. | 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. |
8/11 |
9. | 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. |
7/39 |
10. | Home Toni Morrison, Knopf, $24, 9780307594167 Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison new novel is a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war. |
6/6 |
11. | Istanbul Passage Joseph Kanon, Atria, $26, 9781439156414 Kanon's haunting novel about a man swept up in the dawn of the Cold War is a June 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
9/3 |
12. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309 McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
11/69 |
13. | Beautiful Ruins- Debut Jess Walter, Harper, $25.99, 9780061928123 Walter's dazzling yet deeply human new novel, spanning 50 years and nearly as many lives, is a July 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
14. | The Innocent David Baldacci, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446572996 A riveting new thriller by the bestselling author of Absolute Power. |
12/9 |
15. | 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. |
/22 |
ON THE RISE | ||
16. | The Yard Alex Grecian, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399149542 Grecian's outstanding debut novel about Scotland Yard in late Victorian London is a June 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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