National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for May 11, 2016
Based on sales for the week ending May 8, 2016
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Nest
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, Ecco, $26.99, 9780062414212
Sweeney's warm, funny, and perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of their shared inheritance is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for April 2016.		 1/7
2. Everybody's Fool- Debut
Richard Russo, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307270641
Russo, at the very top of his game, returns to North Bath, New York, and the characters from his beloved novel Nobody's Fool. A May 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /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.		 2/99
4. Zero K- Debut
Don DeLillo, Scribner, $27.00, 9781501135392
DeLillo's brilliant new novel is an ode to language, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life.		 /1
5. 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.		 3/63
6. The Last Mile
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $29.00, 9781455586455
In Baldacci's brilliant new thriller, Amos Decker will need all of his extraordinary brainpower to stop an innocent man from being executed.		 4/3
7. Miller's Valley
Anna Quindlen, Random House, $28.00, 9780812996081
In a small town on the verge of big change, a young woman unearths deep secrets about her family and unexpected truths about herself.		 5/5
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.		 7/60
9. Eligible
Curtis Sittenfeld, Random House, $28.00, 9781400068326
Sittenfeld's modern retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a May 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 6/3
10. 15th Affair- Debut
James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, Little Brown, $28.00, 9780316407076
In the new Women's Murder Club novel, Detective Lindsay Boxer chases an elusive suspect: her husband.		 /1
11. Everyone Brave Is Forgiven- Debut
Chris Cleave, S&S, $26.99, 9781501124372
Cleave's unforgettable new novel about three lives entangled during World War II is a May 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
12. The Summer Before the War
Helen Simonson, Random House, $28.00, 9780812993103
Simonson's breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World War I is an April 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 8/7
13. My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $26.00, 9781400067695
The unforgettable new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge is a January 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 10/17
14. The Little Red Chairs
Edna O'Brien, Little Brown, $27.00, 9780316378239
O'Brien's fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal.		 11/6
15. Lilac Girls
Martha Hall Kelly, Ballantine, $26.00, 9781101883075
Kelly's debut novel is an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades.		 9/4

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