National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for September 26, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending September 22, 2013
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Weeks on List
1. Bleeding Edge- Debut
Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, $28.95, 9781594204234
Pynchon's new novel is an historical romance of New York in the early days of the Internet -- not very distant in calendar years but galactically remote from where we've journeyed since.		 /1
2. Never Go Back
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780385344340
Jack Reacher's past catches up with him in the new thriller by the best selling author of Gone Tomorrow.		 2/3
3. The Longest Ride- Debut
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $27, 9781455520657
Two couples who have little in common, and who are separated by years and experience, have their lives converge in the latest novel by the bestselling author of The Notebook.		 /1
4. W Is for Wasted
Sue Grafton, Putnam, $28.95, 9780399158988
Grafton's latest bestseller is full of betrayals, misunderstandings, and outright murderous fraud. And Kinsey Millhone, through no fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised.		 1/2
5. The Cuckoo's Calling
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland, $26, 9780316206846
A riveting crime fiction novel for adults by J.K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.		 4/9
6. MaddAddam
Margaret Atwood, Nan A. Talese, $27.95, 9780385528788
The brilliant conclusion to Atwood's trilogy, following Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood.		 3/3
7. Someone
Alice McDermott, FSG, $25, 9780374281090
The new novel by the National Book Award-winning McDermott is a fully realized portrait of one woman's life in all its complexity, and a September 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.		 6/2
8. And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $28.95, 9781594631764
The unforgettable new novel by the bestselling author of The Kite Runner is a June 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.		 5/18
9. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25, 9780307588364
Flynn's thriller about a marriage gone terribly wrong is a June 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.		 10/67
10. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $25.99, 9780062255655
Gaiman's stirring, terrifying new novel is a July 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.		 7/14
11. Dissident Gardens
Jonathan Lethem, Doubleday, $27.95, 9780385534932
Lethem's latest novel is a family saga about three generations of all-American radicals.		 8/2
12. How the Light Gets In
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $25.99, 9780312655471
A masterful new Chief Inspector Gamache novel by the bestselling author of The Beautiful Mystery.		 9/4
13. The Quest- Debut
Nelson DeMille, Center Street, $26, 9781455576425
A search for the Holy Grail is on in DeMille's latest bestselling thriller.		 /1
14. Inferno
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385537858
In Brown's latest thriller, Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces, Dante's Inferno.		 11/19
15. Night Film
Marisha Pessl, Random House, $28, 9781400067886
The haunting new novel by the bestselling author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a September 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.		 12/5
ON THE RISE
20. Burial Rites
Hannah Kent, Little Brown, $26, 9780316243919
Kent's brilliant debut novel, inspired by the true story of the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829, is a September 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.		  

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