National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for October 2, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending September 28, 2014
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Edge of Eternity
Ken Follett, Dutton, $36, 9780525953098
The third volume in Follett's epic Century Trilogy, following Winter of the World.		 1/2
2. The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell, Random House, $30, 9781400065677
The astonishing new novel by the author of Cloud Atlas and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for September 2014.		 3/4
3. Personal
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780804178747
Jack Reacher returns in the latest action-packed novel of suspense by the bestselling author of Never Go Back.		 2/4
4. 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.		 4/7
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.		 6/21
6. The Children Act
Ian McEwan, Nan A. Talese, $25, 9780385539708
A leading High Court judge must decide the case of a 17-year-old boy who is refusing for religious reasons the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents echo his wishes.		 5/3
7. The Paying Guests
Sarah Waters, Riverhead, $28.95, 9781594633119
The enthralling new novel by the bestselling author of The Little Stranger is an October 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 12/2
8. 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.		 7/49
9. The Secret Place
Tana French, Viking, $27.95, 9780670026326
French's riveting new Dublin Murder Squad novel is a September 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 8/4
10. 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.		 10/6
11. Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good
Jan Karon, Putnam Adult, $27.95, 9780399167447
A delightful new Mitford novel by the bestselling author of A Light in the Window.		 9/4
12. Station Eleven- Debut
Emily St. John Mandel, Knopf, $24.95, 9780385353304
St. John Mandel's novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse is a September 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
13. 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.		 15/9
14. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales- Debut
Margaret Atwood, Nan A. Talese, $25.95, 9780385539128
Atwood's collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy.		 /1
15. The Long Way Home
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.		 11/5

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