National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for September 4, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending August 31, 2014
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $25.95, 9780385352109
The eagerly awaited new novel by the internationally bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.		 1/3
2. The Long Way Home- Debut
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $27.99, 9781250022066
The new Chief Inspector Gamache novel by the bestselling author of How the Light Gets In is a September 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
3. 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.		 2/45
4. Adultery
Paulo Coelho, Knopf, $24.95, 9781101874080
A woman embarks on an adventure as unexpected as it is daring in the new novel by the bestselling author of The Alchemist.		 5/2
5. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27, 9781476746586
Doerr's beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France during World War II is a May 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 3/17
6. Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $26.95, 9780399167065
A novel about three women, each at a crossroads, by the bestselling author of The Husband's Secret.		 4/5
7. The Book of Life
Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95, 9780670025596
Harkness' highly anticipated finale to her bestselling All Souls trilogy, following Shadow of Night.		 6/7
8. We Are Not Ourselves
Matthew Thomas, S&S, $28, 9781476756660
Thomas's powerful multigenerational debut novel of an Irish-American family is a September 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 9/2
9. 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.		 11/34
10. The Heist
Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99, 9780062320056
Gabriel Allon searches for a stolen masterpiece by Caravaggio in Silva's latest action-packed tale of international intrigue.		 10/7
11. The 6th Extinction- Debut
James Rollins, Morrow, $27.99, 9780061784811
A thrilling new Sigma Force novel by the bestselling author of The Eye of God.		 /1
12. The Silkworm
Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling, Mulholland, $28, 9780316206877
A compulsively readable, new crime novel featuring Cormoran Strike by the bestselling author of The Cuckoo's Calling.		 7/11
13. The Miniaturist- Debut
Jessie Burton, Ecco, $26.99, 9780062306814
Burton's mysterious debut novel--set in 17th century Amsterdam--is a September 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
14. The Magician's Land
Lev Grossman, Viking, $27.95, 9780670015672
The final novel in Grossman's epic Magicians trilogy is an August 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 8/4
15. Lucky Us
Amy Bloom, Random House, $26, 9781400067244
Bloom's remarkable new novel is a deeply moving and fantastically funny story of love, heartbreak, and luck.		 13/5

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