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Bestseller List for July 19, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending July 15, 2012
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Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | Shadow of Night- Debut Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95, 9780670023486 The thrilling sequel to A Discovery of Witches is a July 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
2. | 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. |
1/6 |
3. | Mission to Paris Alan Furst, Random House, $27, 9781400069484 A dazzling new novel of intrigue by the bestselling author of Spies of the Balkans. |
3/5 |
4. | 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. |
2/8 |
5. | Beautiful Ruins 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. |
6/5 |
6. | The Age of Miracles Karen Thompson Walker, Random House, $26, 9780812992977 This luminous and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world is a July Indie Next List Great Read. |
4/3 |
7. | The Prisoner of Heaven- Debut Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Harper, $25.99, 9780062206282 Carlos Ruiz Zafón takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and tells a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, and revenge. |
/1 |
8. | A Hologram for the King Dave Eggers, McSweeney's, $25, 9781936365746 Eggers takes readers around the world in this novel about one man's fight to hold himself and his family together in the face of the global economic crisis. |
5/4 |
9. | 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. |
7/10 |
10. | Gold Chris Cleave, S&S, $27, 9781451672725 Cleave's poignant new novel about two women preparing to compete in the Olympics is a July 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
10/2 |
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. |
11/43 |
12. | 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. |
8/10 |
13. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309 McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
15/73 |
14. | 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. |
9/14 |
15. | 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. |
12/15 |
ON THE RISE | ||
22. | The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln Stephen L. Carter, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307272638 Carter's new novel is a daring re-imagining of one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history. |
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