National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for October 4, 2017
Based on sales for the week ending October 1, 2017
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. A Legacy of Spies
John le Carré, Viking, $28.00, 9780735225114
The undisputed master returns with his first Smiley novel in more than 25 years.		 1/4
2. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin Press, $27.00, 9780735224292
The riveting new novel by the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You is a September 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/3
3. A Column of Fire
Ken Follett, Viking, $36.00, 9780525954972
The magnificent new Kingsbridge novel by the bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End.		 2/3
4. Sleeping Beauties- Debut
Stephen King, Owen King, Scribner, $30.00, 9781501163401
A provocative and dramatic father/son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.		 /1
5. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
David Lagercrantz, Knopf, $27.95, 9780451494320
Stieg Larsson's Millennium series continues with this new novel by the bestselling author of The Girl in the Spider's Web.		 3/3
6. 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.		 5/56
7. My Absolute Darling
Gabriel Tallent, Riverhead, $27.00, 9780735211179
Tallent's profoundly moving debut novel is the #1 Indie Next List Pick for September 2017.		 7/5
8. Glass Houses
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250066190
A gripping new Chief Inspector Gamache novel by the bestselling author of The Nature of the Beast.		 6/5
9. The Cuban Affair
Nelson DeMille, S&S, $28.99, 9781501101724
In DeMille's blistering new thriller, U.S. Army combat veteran Daniel "Mac" MacCormick, now a charter boat captain, is about to set sail on his most dangerous cruise.		 8/2
10. Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward, Scribner, $26.00, 9781501126062
The searing new novel by the bestselling author of Salvage the Bones is a September 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 11/4
11. Don't Let Go- Debut
Harlan Coben, Dutton, $28.00, 9780525955115
In his new thriller, Coben explores the big secrets and little lies that can destroy a relationship, a family, and even a town.		 /1
12. The Ninth Hour- Debut
Alice McDermott, FSG, $26.00, 9780374280147
McDermott's magnificent new novel--about a widow, her daughter, and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn--is an October 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
13. Forest Dark
Nicole Krauss, Harper, $27.99, 9780062430991
A breathtakingly original new novel by the bestselling author of The History of Love.		 10/3
14. Enemy of the State
Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills, Atria, $28.99, 9781476783512
Mitch Rapp finds himself alone and targeted by a country that is supposed to be one of America's closest allies.		 9/4
15. Camino Island
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385543026
In Grisham's new novel of suspense, a gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library, and a young novelist is hired to go undercover and investigate.		 13/17
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17. The Child Finder
Rene Denfeld, Harper, $25.99, 9780062659057
Denfeld's haunting, richly atmospheric, and deeply suspenseful novel about an investigator who must use her unique insights to find a missing little girl is a September 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		  

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