National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for March 5, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending March 1, 2015
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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.		 1/7
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.		 2/43
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.		 3/3
4. The Whites
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.		 4/2
5. Trigger Warning
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062330260
Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with a new collection of short fiction.		 5/4
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.		 6/4
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.		 7/4
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.		 8/7
9. 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.		 12/5
10. Mightier Than the Sword- Debut
Jeffrey Archer, St. Martin's Press, $27.99, 9781250034519
Archer's compelling Clifton Chronicles continue in this, his most accomplished novel to date.		 /1
11. 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.		 14/19
12. 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.		 9/12
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.		 13/16
14. Euphoria
Lily King, Atlantic Monthly Press, $25, 9780802122551
A breathtaking novel about three young anthropologists of the '30s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives.		 /3
15. 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.		 11/70

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