National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for March 31, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending March 27, 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.		 1/61
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).		 2/17
3. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616200701
An indie fave about a traveling circus is now a major motion picture.		 3/113
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.		 4/12
5. The Postmistress
Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691
Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII.		 5/8
6. Little Bee
Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648
Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England.		 6/58
7. A Visit From the Goon Squad- Debut
Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477
Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback.		 /1
8. 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.		 9/94
9. 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.		 12/75
10. 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.		 8/12
11. The Man From Beijing
Henning Mankell, Vintage, $15, 9780307472847
An electrifying global thriller by the award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries.		 14/2
12. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
David Mitchell, Random House, $15, 9780812976366
The riveting novel by the author of Cloud Atlas was a July 2010 Indie Next List Great Read in hardcover.		 7/3
13. Tinkers
Paul Harding, Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95, 9781934137123
Harding's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel looks at love, loss, and the beauty of nature.		 11/46
14. The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Cathleen Schine, Picador, $14, 9780312680527
Schine's wonderful follow-up to her novel The New Yorkers.		 10/7
15. 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.		 13/29
ON THE RISE
18. Every Last One
Anna Quindlen, Random House, $15, 9780812976885
A breathtaking novel by the bestselling author of One True Thing.


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