National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for April 16, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending April 12, 2015
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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.		 1/13
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.		 2/49
3. The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307271037
Ishiguro's first novel in a decade tells a luminous story about the act of forgetting and the power of memory. A March 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 3/6
4. At the Water's Edge
Sara Gruen, Spiegel & Grau, $28, 9780385523233
Gruen's gripping and poignant new novel about a privileged young woman's awakening as she experiences the devastation of World War II is an April 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 5/2
5. The Fifth Gospel
Ian Caldwell, S&S, $25.99, 9781451694147
Caldwell's masterful new thriller confirms his place among the most ambitious, popular storytellers working today. A March 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 6/6
6. The Harder They Come
T.C. Boyle, Ecco, $27.99, 9780062349378
Boyle's powerful, gripping novel that explores the roots of violence and anti-authoritarianism inherent in the American character is an April 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 7/2
7. 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.		 8/9
8. 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.		 9/10
9. The Stranger
Harlan Coben, Dutton, $27.95, 9780525953500
Coben delivers his most shocking thriller yet, proving that a well-placed lie can help build a wonderful life--and that a secret has the same power to destroy it.		 4/3
10. Blood on Snow- Debut
Jo Nesbø, Knopf, $23.95, 9780385354196
From the author of the Harry Hole novels, this stand-alone has at its center an Oslo contract killer who draws readers into an unexpected meditation on death and love.		 /1
11. Falling in Love- Debut
Donna Leon, Atlantic Monthly Press, $26, 9780802123534
A new Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery by the bestselling author of Death at La Fenice.		 /1
12. World Gone By
Dennis Lehane, Morrow, $27.99, 9780060004903
Lehane's psychologically and morally complex novel of blood, crime, passion, and vengeance is an April 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 10/5
13. A Dangerous Place
Jacqueline Winspear, Harper, $26.99, 9780062220554
A brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie Dobbs into a web of lies, deceit, and peril.		 11/4
14. Leaving Berlin
Joseph Kanon, Atria, $27, 9781476704647
Kanon's sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin is a March 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 12/6
15. Trigger Warning
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062330260
Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with a new collection of short fiction.		 14/10
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16. Emma: A Modern Retelling
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $25.95, 9780804197953
The bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series deftly escorts Jane Austen's beloved, meddlesome heroine into the 21st century in this delightfully inventive retelling.		  

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