National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for January 27, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending January 23, 2011
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country.		 1/52
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).		 2/8
3. Little Bee
Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648
Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England.		 3/49
4. The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman, Dial, $15, 9780385343671
Rachman's wry debut novel follows the lives of the staff of an international English-language newspaper in Rome.		 4/3
5. True Grit
Charles Portis, Overlook, $14.95, 9781590204597
A new edition of Portis' classic novel and the basis for the new film directed by the Coen brothers.		 7/3
6. 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.		 9/85
7. Tinkers
Paul Harding, Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95, 9781934137123
Harding's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel looks at love, loss, and the beauty of nature.		 5/37
8. 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.		 8/83
9. 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.		 6/20
10. The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780060852580
Kingsolver's November 2009 Indie Next List Great Read is now available in paperback.		 12/27
11. 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.		 13/67
12. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
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.		 15/3
13. The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson, Bloomsbury, $15, 9781608196111
Jacobson's funny and furious novel is the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize.		 10/14
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.		 /99
15. 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.		 14/60


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