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Bestseller List for January 13, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending January 9, 2011
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Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. |
1/50 |
2. | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223 Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired). |
2/6 |
3. | Little Bee Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648 Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England. |
4/47 |
4. | Tinkers Paul Harding, Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95, 9781934137123 Harding's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel looks at love, loss, and the beauty of nature. |
5/35 |
5. | Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9781416586296 Walls follows up her bestselling memoir, The Glass Castle, with this true-life novel about her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith. |
7/18 |
6. | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307454546 The first installment in the bestselling thriller trilogy by the late Swedish journalist Larsson. |
3/81 |
7. | The Imperfectionists- Debut Tom Rachman, Dial , $15, 9780385343671 Rachman's wry debut novel follows the lives of the staff of an international English-language newspaper in Rome. |
/1 |
8. | The Girl Who Played With Fire Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307454553 The highly anticipated sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. |
6/42 |
9. | The Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein, Harper, $14.99, 9780061537967 A look at life through the eyes of Enzo, a mixed-breed pooch. |
8/83 |
10. | The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson, Bloomsbury, $15, 9781608196111 Jacobson's funny and furious novel is the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. |
9/12 |
11. | Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann, Random House, $15, 9780812973990 McCann's lyrical novel about Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center is the winner of the 2009 National Book Award for fiction. |
11/58 |
12. | The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780060852580 Kingsolver's November 2009 Indie Next List Great Read is now available in paperback. |
10/25 |
13. | The Girl Who Fell from the Sky- Debut Heidi W. Durrow, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781616200152 Durrow's searing debut is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction addressing issues of social justice. |
/1 |
14. | Sarah's Key Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95, 9780312370848 This remarkable historical novel is an October 2008 Indie Next List Great Read. |
14/98 |
15. | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford, Ballantine, $15, 9780345505347 An evocative novel of Japanese-Americans in Seattle during World War II. |
12/65 |
ON THE RISE | ||
23. | The Year of the Hare Arto Paasilinna, Penguin, $14, 9780143117926 Paasilinna's charming comic novel is a January 2011 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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