National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for September 26, 2018
Based on sales for the week ending September 23, 2018
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Lethal White- Debut
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland, $29.00, 9780316422734
A riveting new Cormoran Strike novel by the bestselling author of Career of Evil.		 /1
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.		 2/16
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.		 1/107
4. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $26.00, 9780735219090
Owens' exquisite and heartbreaking novel is an August 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 5/5
5. Time's Convert- Debut
Deborah Harkness, Viking, $29.00, 9780399564512
A novel about what it takes to become a vampire by the bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches.		 /1
6. 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.		 4/54
7. Sea Prayer- Debut
Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $15.00, 9780525539094
Hosseini's short and powerful illustrated book written in response to the current Syrian refugee crisis.		 /1
8. 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."		 3/4
9. Juror #3
James Patterson, Nancy Allen, Little Brown, $28.00, 9780316474122
A young attorney tries her first case in Patterson's new legal thriller.		 9/2
10. 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.		 8/24
11. 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.		 6/3
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.		 12/21
13. 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.		 7/20
14. My Struggle: Book Six- Debut
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Archipelago, $33.00, 9780914671992
The final installment in Knausgaard's internationally celebrated My Struggle series.		 /1
15. The Labyrinth of the Spirits- Debut
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Harper, $37.50, 9780062668691
A heart-pounding thriller and nail-biting work of suspense which introduces a sexy, seductive new heroine whose investigation shines a light on the dark history of Franco's Spain.		 /1

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