National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for May 25, 2016
Based on sales for the week ending May 22, 2016
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Weeks on List
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.		 1/3
2. LaRose
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.		 4/2
3. 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.		 2/9
4. 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.		 5/101
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.		 6/65
6. 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.		 3/3
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.		 7/5
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.		 9/62
9. The Fireman- Debut
Joe Hill, Morrow, $28.99, 9780062200631
A chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it. A June 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
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.		 10/3
11. 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.		 8/5
12. 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.		 11/3
13. Imagine Me Gone
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.		 13/2
14. The Noise of Time
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.		 12/2
15. The Vegetarian- Debut
Han Kang, Hogarth, $21.00, 9780553448184
Kang's beautiful and unsettling novel is the winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.		 /1

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