National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for February 26, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending February 22, 2015
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594633669
Hawkins' debut is a psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. A January 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 1/6
2. 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.		 2/42
3. A Spool of Blue Thread
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $25.95, 9781101874271
Tyler's poignant yet unsentimental novel in praise of family in all its emotional complexity is a February 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 3/2
4. The Whites- Debut
Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt, Holt, $28, 9780805093995
An electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege—by an unsolved murder, by his own dark past, and by a violent stalker seeking revenge.		 /1
5. Trigger Warning
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062330260
Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with a new collection of short fiction.		 4/3
6. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $27.99, 9780312577223
Hannah's heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women is a February 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 5/3
7. Funny Girl
Nick Hornby, Riverhead, $27.95, 9781594205415
Hornby's new novel is a lively account of the intrepid Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingenue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters.		 6/3
8. The First Bad Man
Miranda July, Scribner, $25, 9781439172568
The unforgettable debut novel by the bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You is a January 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 7/6
9. The Boston Girl
Anita Diamant, Scribner, $26, 9781439199350
Diamant's unforgettable new novel about family ties, values, friendship, and feminism seen through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early 20th century is a December 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 10/11
10. Dreaming Spies- Debut
Laurie R. King, Bantam, $26, 9780345531797
A new of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by the bestselling author of Pirate King.		 /1
11. 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.		 12/69
12. Private Vegas
James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, Little Brown, $28, 9780316211154
A hunt for two criminals leads Private Jack Morgan to the city of sin--and to a murder ring that is more seductively threatening than anything he's witnessed before.		 9/4
13. Station Eleven
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.		 11/15
14. Gray Mountain
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385537148
When a Wall Street lawyer takes on a case in a small Virgina town, she finds herself engulfed in litigation that turns deadly.		 8/18
15. Redeployment
Phil Klay, Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594204999
Klay's stories take readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there and what happened to the soldiers who returned. A March 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 13/17
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21. We Are Pirates
Daniel Handler, Bloomsbury, $26, 9781608196883
Handler's dazzling novel about our desperate searches for happiness and freedom is a February 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		  

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