National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for September 28, 2016
Based on sales for the week ending September 25, 2016
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Commonwealth
Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99, 9780062491794
Patchett's beautifully written new novel tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for September 2016.		 1/2
2. Razor Girl
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $27.95, 9780385349741
The hilarious new novel by the bestselling author of Bad Monkey is a September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 3/3
3. The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385542364
Whitehead's magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South is a September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 2/8
4. Nutshell
Ian McEwan, Nan A. Talese, $24.95, 9780385542074
A classic tale of murder and deceit by the bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act.		 4/2
5. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Viking, $27.00, 9780670026197
Towles' transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel is a September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 8/3
6. The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $26.00, 9781501132933
The suspenseful and haunting new novel by the bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood is an August 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 7/10
7. 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.		 9/123
8. Home- Debut
Harlan Coben, Dutton, $28.00, 9780525955108
Coben's latest is an explosive and deeply moving thriller about friendship, family, and the meaning of home.		 /1
9. The Girls
Emma Cline, Random House, $27.00, 9780812998603
Cline's remarkable debut novel is gorgeously written and spellbinding, with razor-sharp precision and startling psychological insight. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for June 2016.		 10/15
10. Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer, FSG, $28.00, 9780374280024
A new novel of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy by the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated.		 6/3
11. A Great Reckoning
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250022134
Penny's brilliant and emotionally powerful new Chief Inspector Gamache novel is a September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 5/4
12. The Nix
Nathan Hill, Knopf, $27.95, 9781101946619
The Nix explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change. A September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 11/4
13. Truly Madly Guilty
Liane Moriarty, Flatiron, $26.99, 9781250069795
In her new novel Moriarty shows how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late.		 12/9
14. 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.		 13/80
15. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd- Debut
Alan Bradley, Delacorte, $26.00, 9780345539960
Flavia de Luce returns in a new Christmas mystery by the bestselling author of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.		 /1
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18. The Wonder
Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $27.00, 9780316393874
The new novel by the bestselling author of Room is a tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil. An October 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		  

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