National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for September 3, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending August 30, 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.		 1/7
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.		 2/63
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.		 3/27
4. The Nature of the Beast- Debut
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $27.99, 9781250022080
Penny's intriguing new Chief Inspector Gamache novel is a September 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
5. X- Debut
Sue Grafton, Marian Wood Books/Putnam, $28.95, 9780399163845
Kinsey Millhone must prove her case against a remorseless serial killer before she becomes his next victim.		 /1
6. 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.		 4/5
7. Secondhand Souls- Debut
Christopher Moore, Morrow, $26.99, 9780061779787
In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing--and you know that can't be good--in Moore's delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job.		 /1
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.		 6/30
9. The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George, Crown, $25.00, 9780553418774
George's heartwarming new novel is a July 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 7/10
10. Wind/Pinball
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.		 5/4
11. 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.		 8/5
12. The Marriage of Opposites
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.		 11/4
13. Last Bus to Wisdom
Ivan Doig, Riverhead, $28.95, 9781594632020
Last Bus to Wisdom is a last sweet gift from a writer whose books have bestowed untold pleasure on countless readers.		 9/2
14. The Taming of the Queen- Debut
Philippa Gregory, Touchstone, $27.99, 9781476758794
A riveting new Tudor tale featuring King Henry VIII's sixth wife, Kateryn Parr, by the bestselling author of The White Queen.		 /1
15. Who Do You Love
Jennifer Weiner, Atria, $27.00, 9781451617818
An unforgettable novel about true love, real life, and second chances, by the bestselling author of All Fall Down.		 12/3

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