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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for September 13, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending September 9, 2012
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 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. |
1/14 |
| 2. | NW: A Novel- Debut Zadie Smith, Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594203978 Depicting the modern London urban zone, Smith's latest is a quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and vital, like the city itself. |
/1 |
| 3. | The Beautiful Mystery Louise Penny, Minotaur, $25.99, 9780312655464 Penny's new intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache mystery is a September 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
2/2 |
| 4. | The Time Keeper- Debut Mitch Albom, Hyperion, $24.99, 9781401322786 Albom's latest is a compelling fable about the first man on Earth to count the hours. |
/1 |
| 5. | 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. |
3/51 |
| 6. | 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. |
9/4 |
| 7. | 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. |
10/13 |
| 8. | 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. |
5/5 |
| 9. | 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. |
4/7 |
| 10. | 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. |
7/12 |
| 11. | Garment of Shadows- Debut Laurie R. King, Bantam, $26, 9780553807998 King's intriguing new novel of suspense features Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. |
/1 |
| 12. | 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. |
6/5 |
| 13. | 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. |
13/2 |
| 14. | Zoo- Debut James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316097444 A pulse-racing new thriller by the authors of Now You See Her. |
/1 |
| 15. | 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. |
12/6 |
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| 20. | The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers, Little Brown , $24.99, 9780316219365 This powerful novel, written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, is a harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive. A September 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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