National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for September 17, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending September 13, 2015
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Weeks on List
1. The Girl in the Spider's Web
David Lagercrantz, Knopf, $27.95, 9780385354288
Acclaimed Swedish journalist and author Lagercrantz continues Stieg Larsson's Millennium series as Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return in this adrenaline-charged thriller.		 1/2
2. Make Me- Debut
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28.99, 9780804178778
The 20th Jack Reacher novel by the bestselling author of Personal.		 /1
3. 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.		 3/65
4. Purity
Jonathan Franzen, FSG, $28.00, 9780374239213
A grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, by the bestselling author of The Corrections and Freedom.		 2/2
5. 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.		 4/9
6. 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.		 5/29
7. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights- Debut
Salman Rushdie, Random House, $28.00, 9780812998917
A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, by the author of The Satanic Verses.		 /1
8. X
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.		 6/3
9. The Nature of the Beast
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $27.99, 9781250022080
Penny's intriguing new Chief Inspector Gamache novel is a September 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 7/3
10. 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.		 8/7
11. Secondhand Souls
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.		 9/3
12. 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.		 10/32
13. The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George, Crown, $25.00, 9780553418774
George's heartwarming new novel is a July 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 12/12
14. Did You Ever Have a Family- Debut
Bill Clegg, Gallery/Scout Press, $26.00, 9781476798172
Clegg's magnificently powerful story about a circle of people who find solace in the least likely of places is a September 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
15. Girl Waits With Gun
Amy Stewart, Houghton Mifflin, $27.00, 9780544409910
Stewart's enthralling novel, based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs, is a September 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 14/2

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