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Bestseller List for May 18, 2016
Based on sales for the week ending May 15, 2016
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Hardcover Fiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. |
Everybody's Fool 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. |
2/2 |
2. |
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. |
1/8 |
3. |
Zero K 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. |
4/2 |
4. |
LaRose- Debut Louise Erdrich, Harper, $27.99, 9780062277022 The masterful new novel by the National Book Award-winning author of The Roundhouse is a May 2016 Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
5. |
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. |
3/100 |
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. |
5/64 |
7. |
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. |
6/4 |
8. |
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. |
9/4 |
9. |
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. |
8/61 |
10. |
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven 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. |
11/2 |
11. |
15th Affair 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. |
10/2 |
12. |
The Noise of Time- Debut Julian Barnes, Knopf, $25.95, 9781101947241 The new novel by the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending is a compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. |
/1 |
13. |
Imagine Me Gone- Debut Adam Haslett, Little Brown, $26.00, 9780316261357 Haslett's new novel is a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most? A May 2016 Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
14. |
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. |
7/6 |
15. |
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. |
12/8 |
ON THE RISE | ||
16. |
Redemption Road John Hart, Thomas Dunne Books, $27.99, 9780312380366 Brimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, Redemption Road proves again that John Hart is a master of the literary thriller. A May 2016 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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