National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for May 7, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending May 3, 2015
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27.00, 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.		 2/52
2. 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.		 1/16
3. God Help the Child
Toni Morrison, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307594174
In her new novel, Morrison weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.		 /2
4. Memory Man
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $28.00, 9781455559824
In Memory Man, Baldacci introduces a startling, original new character: Amos Decker, a man with perfect memory who must solve his own family's murder.		 /2
5. At the Water's Edge
Sara Gruen, Spiegel & Grau, $28.00, 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.		 4/5
6. The Bone Tree
Greg Iles, Morrow, $27.99, 9780062311115
Greg Iles continues the electrifying story of Southern lawyer Penn Cage, begun in his bestseller Natchez Burning. A May 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /2
7. 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.		 3/9
8. Gathering Prey- Debut
John Sandford, Putnam, $28.95, 9780399168796
An extraordinary new Lucas Davenport novel by the bestselling author of Rules of Prey.		 /1
9. 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.		 9/13
10. 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.		 6/12
11. Early Warning- Debut
Jane Smiley, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307700322
The second installment of Smiley's bestselling American trilogy, which started with Some Luck, brings the journey of a remarkable family with roots in the Iowa heartland into mid-century America.		 /1
12. My Struggle: Book Four- Debut
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Archipelago, $27.00, 9780914671176
The fourth installment of Knausgaard's six-volume autobiographical novel.		 /1
13. 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.		 5/6
14. Blood on Snow
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.		 7/4
15. 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.		 8/9

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