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Bestseller List for April 24, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending April 20, 2014
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Hardcover Fiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. |
The Goldfinch Donna Tartt, Little Brown, $30, 9780316055437 Tartt's novel--plumbing the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art--is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. |
1/26 |
2. |
The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd, Viking, $27.95, 9780670024780 Kidd's magnificent new novel about two unforgettable American women is the #1 Indie Next Great Read for January 2014. |
2/15 |
3. |
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Gabrielle Zevin, Algonquin, $24.95, 9781616203214 Zevin's truly enchanting novel is a love letter to the world of books--and booksellers--and is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for April 2014. |
3/4 |
4. |
One More Thing B.J. Novak, Knopf, $24.95, 9780385351836 A highly entertaining short story collection by the writer and actor known for his work on NBC's The Office. |
9/11 |
5. |
In Paradise Peter Matthiessen, Riverhead, $27.95, 9781594633171 Matthiessen's brave and deeply thought-provoking novel is an April 2014 Indie Next List Great Read. |
4/2 |
6. |
Frog Music Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $27, 9780316324687 The engrossing new novel by the bestselling author of Room is an April 2014 Indie Next List Great Read. |
6/3 |
7. |
The Husband's Secret Liane Moriarty, Amy Einhorn Books, $25.95, 9780399159343 A highly entertaining new novel by the bestselling author of What Alice Forgot. |
12/12 |
8. |
By Its Cover Donna Leon, Atlantic Monthly Press, $26, 9780802122643 Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates the theft of rare books in Leon's latest bestseller. |
7/2 |
9. |
Can't and Won't Lydia Davis, FSG, $26, 9780374118587 A new collection of stories by the bestselling author of The End of the Story. |
5/2 |
10. |
Missing You Harlan Coben, Dutton, $27.95, 9780525953494 Coben's latest is a heart-pounding thriller about the ties we have to our past, and the lies that bind us together. |
/5 |
11. |
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. |
/82 |
12. |
The Collector- Debut Nora Roberts, Putnam Adult, $27.95, 9780399164453 A novel about a woman who needs nothing, a man who sees everything, and the web of deceit, greed, and danger that brings them together. |
/1 |
13. |
The Martian Andy Weir, Crown, $24, 9780804139021 Weir's remarkable debut novel about an astronaut stranded on Mars, and his fight for survival, is a February 2014 Indie Next List Great Read. |
10/10 |
14. |
William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back Ian Doescher, Quirk, $14.95, 9781594747151 Doescher's parody saga that began with the interstellar bestseller William Shakespeare's Star Wars continues with this merry re-imagining of George Lucas' enduring classic The Empire Strikes Back. |
13/4 |
15. |
Still Life With Bread Crumbs Anna Quindlen, Random House, $26, 9781400065752 A superb new love story by the bestselling author of A Short Guide to a Happy Life. |
11/12 |
ON THE RISE | ||
17. |
Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West Seth MacFarlane, Ballantine, $23, 9780553391671 Family Guy creator MacFarlane's debut is a novel that reinvents the Western. |
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