National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for August 13, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending August 9, 2015
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee, Harper, $27.99, 9780062409850
Lee's landmark new novel, which is set two decades after To Kill a Mockingbird, is actually the first draft of the story she reworked to create her Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece.		 1/4
2. 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.		 2/60
3. 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.		 3/24
4. Circling the Sun
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $28.00, 9780345534187
The engrossing new novel by the bestselling author of The Paris Wife is an August 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/2
5. Wind/Pinball: Two Novels- Debut
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $25.95, 9780385352123
Widely available in English for the first time, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself, Wind/Pinball gives us a fascinating insight into a great writer's beginnings.		 /1
6. Kitchens of the Great Midwest
J.Ryan Stradal, Pamela Dorman Books, $25.00, 9780525429142 (An Indies Introduce Title)
By turns quirky, hilarious, and vividly sensory, Stradal's debut novel is an August 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 11/2
7. 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.		 8/27
8. The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George, Crown, $25.00, 9780553418774
George's heartwarming new novel is a July 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 7/7
9. Armada
Ernest Cline, Crown, $26.00, 9780804137256
Cline's rollicking and surprising new novel is an August 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 5/4
10. The English Spy
Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99, 9780062320131
A stunning new Gabriel Allon novel by the bestselling author of The English Assassin.		 6/6
11. Luckiest Girl Alive
Jessica Knoll, S&S, $25.00, 9781476789637
Knoll's novel introduces a heroine whose sharp edges and cutthroat ambition have been protecting a scandalous truth, and a heart that's bigger than it first appears.		 10/10
12. The Marriage of Opposites- Debut
Alice Hoffman, S&S, $27.99, 9781451693591
Hoffman's new novel is a forbidden love story set on St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro, the Father of Impressionism. An August 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
13. Alert- Debut
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge, Little Brown, $28.00, 9780316407038
Detective Michael Bennett and the FBI's Emily Parker have to catch the shadowy criminals who claim responsibility for two high-tech attacks on New York.		 /1
14. In the Unlikely Event
Judy Blume, Knopf, $27.95, 9781101875049
Blume's richly textured and moving story of three generations of families, friends, and strangers whose lives are profoundly changed by unexpected events.		 9/10
15. Our Souls at Night
Kent Haruf, Knopf, $24.00, 9781101875896
Our Souls at Night is the perfect final installment to this beloved writer's enduring contribution to American literature.		 12/7
ON THE RISE
21. Flood of Fire
Amitav Ghosh, FSG, $28.00, 9780374174248
The final installment in the Ibis trilogy by the bestselling author of Sea of Poppies.		  

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