National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for January 6, 2016
Based on sales for the week ending January 3, 2016
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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.		 1/81
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.		 2/45
3. 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.		 4/16
4. 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.		 3/11
5. 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.		 6/42
6. 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.		 14/10
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.		 7/12
8. 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.		 11/8
9. A Little Life- Debut
Hanya Yanagihara, Doubleday, $30.00, 9780385539258
Yanagihara's astonishing novel about love and friendship in the 21st century is a March 2015 Indie Next List Great Read and a National Book Award finalist.		 /1
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.		 10/14
11. The Guilty
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $28.00, 9781455586424
A riveting new Will Robie thriller by the bestselling author of The Hit.		 /6
12. 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.		 8/8
13. 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.		 12/8
14. City on Fire
Garth Risk Hallberg, Knopf, $30.00, 9780385353779
Hallberg's stunning debut novel about New York in the 1970s is an October 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /5
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.		 15/12

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