National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for March 29, 2017
Based on sales for the week ending March 26, 2017
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Weeks on List
1. Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman, Norton, $25.95, 9780393609097
Gaiman fashions primeval Norse stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants.		 1/7
2. Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, Random House, $28.00, 9780812995343
The brilliant first novel by the author of Tenth of December is a February 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 2/6
3. Exit West
Mohsin Hamid, Riverhead, $26.00, 9780735212176
Hamid's novel is an astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for March 2017.		 3/3
4. 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.		 5/29
5. 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.		 4/34
6. Mississippi Blood- Debut
Greg Iles, Morrow, $28.99, 9780062311153
The final installment in the epic Natchez Burning trilogy is an April 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
7. In This Grave Hour
Jacqueline Winspear, Harper, $27.99, 9780062436603
As Britain declares war with Germany in September 1939, Maisie Dobbs is out to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some 23 years earlier during the Great War.		 6/2
8. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane- Debut
Lisa See, Scribner, $27.00, 9781501154829
In her thrilling new novel, See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple. An April 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
9. A Piece of the World
Christina Baker Kline, Morrow, $27.99, 9780062356260
Kline's evocative novel--inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World--is a March 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 9/5
10. The Whistler
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385541190
Grisham's electrifying new novel is a high-stakes thrill ride through the darkest corners of the Sunshine State.		 7/22
11. Celine
Peter Heller, Knopf, $25.95, 9780451493897
Heller's luminous and masterful novel of suspense is a March 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 8/3
12. Vicious Circle- Debut
C.J. Box, Putnam, $27.00, 9780399176616
The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family in the new novel by the bestselling author of Off the Grid.		 /1
13. 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.		 11/28
14. Difficult Women
Roxane Gay, Grove Press, $25.00, 9780802125392
A collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection.		 14/12
15. The Refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $25.00, 9780802126399
This collection of perfectly formed stories exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family is a February 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 10/6

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