National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for August 30, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending August 26, 2012
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. 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.
1/12
2. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316204279
A compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's roles in an absurd world.
11/2
3. 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.
8/49
4. 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.
5/11
5. Broken Harbor
Tana French, Viking, $27.95, 9780670023653
French's new novel about the investigation of the murder of a family is an August 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
2/5
6. The Dog Stars
Peter Heller, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307959942
Heller's breathtaking novel about what it means to be human is an August Indie Next List Great Read.
3/3
7. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $25, 9781451681734
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is an August 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
7/3
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.
4/10
9. 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.
15/14
10. Lionel Asbo: State of England- Debut
Martin Amis, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307958082
A savagely funny new novel by the author of London Fields.
/1
11. Shadow of Night
Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95, 9780670023486
The thrilling sequel to A Discovery of Witches is a July 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
6/7
12. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce, Random House, $25, 9780812993295
Joyce's novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we bury within our hearts is an August Indie Next List Great Read.
9/4
13. The Bartender's Tale- Debut
Ivan Doig, Riverhead, $27.95, 9781594487354
Doig's latest novel about a one-of-a-kind father and his precocious son is a September 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
14. The Fallen Angel
Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99, 9780062073129
A new Vatican-set thriller featuring Gabriel Allon, from the bestselling author of Portrait of a Spy.
10/6
15. 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.
/13
ON THE RISE
16. The Orchardist
Amanda Coplin, Harper, $26.99, 9780062188502
Coplin's touching debut novel about a reclusive man who opens his heart and lets the world in, is a September 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
 


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