National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for September 19, 2018
Based on sales for the week ending September 16, 2018
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Weeks on List
1. 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.		 3/106
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.		 2/15
3. The Fall of Gondolin
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Ed.), Alan Lee (Illus.), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30.00, 9781328613042
Following his presentation of Beren and Lúthien, Christopher Tolkien has used the same "history in sequence" mode in the writing of this edition of The Fall of Gondolin. In the words of J.R.R. Tolkien, it was "the first real story of this imaginary world."		 1/3
4. 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.		 9/53
5. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $26.00, 9780735219090
Owens' exquisite and heartbreaking novel is an August 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/4
6. Lake Success
Gary Shteyngart, Random House, $28.00, 9780812997415
Shteyngart's latest is a biting, brilliant, and emotionally resonant novel very much of our times. A September 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 6/2
7. 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.		 5/19
8. 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.		 8/23
9. Juror #3- Debut
James Patterson, Nancy Allen, Little Brown , $28.00, 9780316474122
A young attorney tries her first case in Patterson's new legal thriller.		 /1
10. French Exit
Patrick deWitt, Ecco, $25.99, 9780062846921
A brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration. A September 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 11/3
11. 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.		 10/15
12. 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.		 15/20
13. 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.		 7/15
14. 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.		 13/17
15. Vox
Christina Dalcher, Berkley, $26.00, 9780440000785
Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox is a harrowing and unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter. A September 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /2

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