National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for December 30, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending December 27, 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.		 1/80
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.		 3/44
3. Rogue Lawyer
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385539432
Gritty, witty, and impossible to put down, Rogue Lawyer showcases the master of the legal thriller at his very best.		 2/10
4. Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff, Riverhead, $27.95, 9781594634475
Groff's exhilarating new novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception is an October 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/15
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.		 7/19
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.		 5/41
7. Felicity
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $24.95, 9781594206764
In her new collection of poems, Oliver describes—with joy—the strangeness and wonder of human connection.		 6/11
8. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Stephen King, Scribner, $30.00, 9781501111679
O. Henry Prize-winner King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write each story.		 10/7
9. Avenue of Mysteries
John Irving, S&S, $28.00, 9781451664164
Irving's masterful new novel of fate and memory is a November 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 9/7
10. 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.		 13/13
11. The Japanese Lover
Isabel Allende, Atria, $28.00, 9781501116971
Allende's exquisitely crafted love story and multi-generational new novel is a November 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 11/7
12. The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
Mitch Albom, Harper, $25.99, 9780062294418
An unforgettable new novel by the bestselling author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven.		 8/7
13. See Me
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $27.00, 9781455520619
The new novel by the bestselling author of The Notebook reminds us that those who see us for who we truly are may not always be the ones easiest to recognize.		 14/11
14. Slade House
David Mitchell, Random House, $26.00, 9780812998689
Mitchell's reality-warping vision of the haunted house story is a November 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 15/9
15. 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.		 /11

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