National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for July 4, 2018
Based on sales for the week ending July 1, 2018
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Weeks on List
1. The President Is Missing
Bill Clinton, James Patterson, Little Brown, $30.00, 9780316412698
Clinton and Patterson's suspenseful novel confronts a threat so huge that it jeopardizes not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street,but all of America.		 1/4
2. There There (An Indies Introduce Title)
Tommy Orange, Knopf, $25.95, 9780525520375
Orange's debut novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. The #1 June 2018 Indie Next List Great Read and a Summer 2018 Indies Introduce title.		 2/4
3. The Outsider
Stephen King, Scribner, $30.00, 9781501180989
An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. With The Outsider, King has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable novels.		 3/6
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.		 4/12
5. All We Ever Wanted- Debut
Emily Giffin, Ballantine, $28.00, 9780399178924
In Giffin's gripping new novel three very different people must choose between their families and their most deeply held values.		 /1
6. Florida
Lauren Groff, Riverhead, $27.00, 9781594634512
This masterful collection of stories by the bestselling author of Fates and Furies is a June 2018 Indies Next List Great Read.		 5/4
7. 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.		 10/42
8. When Life Gives You Lululemons
Lauren Weisberger, S&S, $26.99, 9781476778440
With her signature wit, Weisberger offers an alluring look into a sexy, over-the-top world--and proves it's style and substance together that gets the job done.		 9/4
9. 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.		 8/95
10. The Word Is Murder
Anthony Horowitz, Harper, $27.99, 9780062676788
Horowitz's latest is a masterful and tricky mystery that springs many surprises. A June 2018 Indies Next List Great Read.		 7/4
11. 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.		 6/8
12. The Perfect Couple
Elin Hilderbrand, Little Brown, $28.00, 9780316375269
Hilderbrand's latest is a novel about the many ways family can fill our lives with love...if they don't kill us first.		 11/2
13. 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.		 /17
14. 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.		 15/15
15. The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $26.99, 9781501156212
The spellbinding new thriller by the bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10 is a June 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 12/5

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