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Bestseller List for April 26, 2017
Based on sales for the week ending April 23, 2017
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Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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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. |
1/11 |
2. | 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. |
2/38 |
3. | The Fix- Debut David Baldacci, Grand Central, $29.00, 9781455586561 Amos Decker returns in the latest thriller by the bestselling author of The Last Mile. |
/1 |
4. | 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. |
3/10 |
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. |
4/33 |
6. | The Women in the Castle Jessica Shattuck, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062563668 Shattuck's evocative and utterly enthralling novel offers a fresh perspective on one of the most tumultuous periods in history, the end of World War II. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for April 2017. |
5/4 |
7. | The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane 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. |
6/5 |
8. | The Black Book James Patterson, Little Brown, $28.00, 9780316273886 An ingenious and inventive thriller about power, corruption, and the secrets that scandalize a city--and possibly destroy a family. |
7/4 |
9. | 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. |
9/7 |
10. | American War Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $26.95, 9780451493583 El Akkad's stunning debut novel about a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle is an April 2017 Indie Next List Great Read. |
11/3 |
11. | The Stars Are Fire- Debut Anita Shreve, Knopf, $25.95, 9780385350907 Shreve's new novel is an exquisitely suspenseful story about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its aftermath. A May 2017 Indie Nest List Great Read. |
/1 |
12. | Earthly Remains Donna Leon, Atlantic Monthly Press, $25.00, 9780802126474 A riveting new Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery by the bestselling author of A Sea of Troubles. |
10/3 |
13. | Mississippi Blood Greg Iles, Morrow, $28.99, 9780062311153 The final installment in the epic Natchez Burning trilogy is an April 2017 Indie Next List Great Read. |
8/5 |
14. | The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley Hannah Tinti, Dial Press, $27.00, 9780812989885 Tinti's second novel is a coming-of-age tale and a literary thrill ride about the price we pay to protect the people we love most. An April 2017 Indie Next List Great Read. |
12/4 |
15. | The Shadow Land- Debut Elizabeth Kostova, Ballantine, $28.00, 9780345527868 The suspenseful and beautifully written new novel by the bestselling author of The Historian is an April 2017 Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
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17. | The Perfect Stranger Megan Miranda, S&S, $25.00, 9781501107993 In Miranda's suspenseful new novel a journalist sets out to find a missing friend--a friend who may never have existed at all. |
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