National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for October 3, 2018
Based on sales for the week ending September 30, 2018
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Weeks on List
1. Transcription- Debut
Kate Atkinson, Little Brown, $28.00, 9780316176637
Atkinson's dramatic novel of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty is an October 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
2. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing- Debut
Hank Green, Dutton, $26.00, 9781524743444
In his much-anticipated debut novel, Green tells the tale of a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger than anyone could have possibly imagined. An October 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
3. Lethal White
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland, $29.00, 9780316422734
A riveting new Cormoran Strike novel by the bestselling author of Career of Evil.		 1/2
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.		 4/6
5. Red War- Debut
Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills, Atria/Emily Bestler Books, $28.99, 9781501190599
Mitch Rapp races to prevent Russia's gravely ill leader from starting a full-scale war with NATO.		 /1
6. Hippie- Debut
Paulo Coelho, Knopf, $25.95, 9780525655619
In his new novel, Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order.		 /1
7. 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.		 3/108
8. Juror #3
James Patterson, Nancy Allen, Little Brown, $28.00, 9780316474122
A young attorney tries her first case in Patterson's new legal thriller.		 9/3
9. 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."		 8/5
10. 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.		 6/55
11. 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.		 2/17
12. 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.		 10/25
13. Sea Prayer
Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $15.00, 9780525539094
Hosseini's short and powerful illustrated book written in response to the current Syrian refugee crisis.		 7/2
14. Time's Convert
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.		 5/2
15. 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.		 13/21

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