National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for October 11, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending October 7, 2012
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Casual Vacancy
J.K. Rowling, Little Brown, $35, 9780316228534
Rowling's darkly comic and thought provoking first novel for adults.		 1/2
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.		 2/18
3. Winter of the World
Ken Follett, Dutton, $36, 9780525952923
Follett's epic follow-up to Fall of Giants is the second book of his Century Trilogy.		 3/3
4. Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon, Harper, $27.99, 9780061493348
Chabon's triumphant new novel set in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland is an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/4
5. This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Díaz, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594487361
A new collection of stories by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.		 5/4
6. Phantom- Debut
Jo Nesbø, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307960474
Nesbø's excellent new thriller featuring Harry Hole is an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
7. Live By Night- Debut
Dennis Lehane, Morrow, $27.99, 9780060004873
Lehane's latest is at once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, and an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
8. A Wanted Man
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780385344333
A new pulse-pounding Jack Reacher novel by the bestselling author of Worth Dying For.		 6/4
9. In Sunlight and in Shadow- Debut
Mark Helprin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780547819235
Helprin's enchanting and sweeping new novel is an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
10. The Round House- Debut
Louise Erdrich, Harper, $27.99, 9780062065247
The masterful new novel by the author of The Plague of Doves is an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
11. The Time Keeper
Mitch Albom, Hyperion, $24.99, 9781401322786
Albom's latest is a compelling fable about the first man on Earth to count the hours.		 7/5
12. NW: A Novel
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.		 8/5
13. 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.		 9/8
14. Mad River- Debut
John Sandford, Putnam Adult, $27.95, 9780399157707
A thrilling new Virgil Flowers novel by the author of Shock Wave.		 /1
15. 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.		 10/55
ON THE RISE
16. Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories
Sherman Alexie, Grove Press, $27, 9780802120397
A bold new collection of stories by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of War Dances.		  


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