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Bestseller List for May 21, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending May 17, 2015
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Hardcover Fiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. |
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, and winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. |
1/54 |
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. |
2/18 |
3. |
A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson, Little Brown, $28, 9780316176538 This stunning companion to her bestseller Life After Life proves once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age. |
3/2 |
4. |
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, life as an adult. |
4/4 |
5. |
Memory Man David Baldacci, Grand Central, $28, 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. |
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. |
8/15 |
7. |
14th Deadly Sin James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, Little Brown, $28, 9780316407021 With San Francisco under siege and everyone a suspect, the Women's Murder Club must risk their lives to save the city--and each other. |
9/2 |
8. |
Dry Bones- Debut Craig Johnson, Viking, $27.95, 9780525426936 The latest installment in Johnson's bestselling Walt Longmire series. |
/1 |
9. |
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. |
12/4 |
10. |
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. |
7/7 |
11. |
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. |
6/14 |
12. |
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. |
10/11 |
13. |
Early Warning Jane Smiley, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307700322 The second installment of Smiley's bestselling American trilogy, which began with Some Luck, brings the journey of a remarkable family with roots in the Iowa heartland into mid-century America. |
11/3 |
14. |
The Green Road- Debut Anne Enright, Norton, $26.95, 9780393248210 Enright's profoundly moving novel about a family's desperate attempt to recover the relationships they've lost and forge the ones they never had. |
/1 |
15. |
Gathering Prey John Sandford, Putnam, $28.95, 9780399168796 An extraordinary new Lucas Davenport novel by the bestselling author of Rules of Prey. |
13/3 |
ON THE RISE | ||
19. |
The Forgotten Room Lincoln Child, Doubleday, $26, 9780385531405 Professor Jeremy Logan, renowned investigator of the strange and the inexplicable, uncovers a long-lost secret experiment only rumored to have existed. |
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