National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for May 30, 2018
Based on sales for the week ending May 27, 2018
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Weeks on List
1. The Outsider- Debut
Stephen King, Scribner, $30.00, 9781501180989
An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. With The Ousider, King has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable novels.		 /1
2. Warlight
Michael Ondaatje, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525521198
Ondaatje's masterful new novel tells a dramatic story set in London in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of mysterious characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement with one another. A May 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 1/3
3. 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.		 6/90
4. Circe
Madeline Miller, Little Brown, $27.00, 9780316556347
Miller's masterful follow-up to The Song of Achilles is an April 2018 Indie Next List Great read.		 2/7
5. 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.		 3/37
6. The Power
Naomi Alderman, Little Brown, $26.00, 9780316547611
Alderman's novel is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality, and exposing our own world in bold and surprising ways.		 5/21
7. Adjustment Day
Chuck Palahniuk, Norton, $26.95, 9780393652598
In his first novel in four years, Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society.		 9/4
8. Love and Ruin
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $28.00, 9781101967386
McLain's evocative new novel about Ernest Hemingway's passionate and stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn is a May 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 8/4
9. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $27.95, 9780393635522
National Book Award-winner Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. An April 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 10/7
10. The Fallen
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $29.00, 9781538761397
Amos Decker returns in bestselling author David Baldacci's latest Memory Man thriller.		 4/6
11. Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate, Ballantine, $26.00, 9780425284681
Wingate's novel--based on a notorious adoption scandal--is a riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale that reminds us that the heart never forgets where we belong.		 12/11
12. The Favorite Sister
Jessica Knoll, S&S, $26.00, 9781501153198
Knoll's new thriller stars two sisters who join the cast of a reality TV series. One won't make it out alive. So...who did it?		 15/2
13. The Female Persuasion
Meg Wolitzer, Riverhead, $28.00, 9781594488405
Wolitzer's electric new novel about power and influence, ego and loyalty, womanhood and ambition is an April 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 11/8
14. The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $28.99, 9780312577230
Hannah's new novel is a daring and beautiful story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature. A February 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /15
15. The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $27.00, 9781476756554
The compelling new novel by the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers is a May 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 7/4

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