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Bestseller List for June 23, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending June 19, 2011
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Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | The Help Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425232200 Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s. |
1/11 |
2. | A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477 Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback. |
2/13 |
3. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. |
4/73 |
4. | Room Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328 Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child. |
3/6 |
5. | Water for Elephants Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616200701 An indie fave about a traveling circus is now a major motion picture. |
5/125 |
6. | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223 Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired). |
6/29 |
7. | 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. |
8/106 |
8. | The Postmistress Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691 Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII. |
7/20 |
9. | Matterhorn Karl Marlantes, Grove Press, $15.95, 9780802145314 Marlantes' epic novel of the Vietnam War is now available in paperback. |
11/6 |
10. | Little Bee Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648 Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England. |
9/70 |
11. | 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. |
10/24 |
12. | Our Kind of Traitor John le Carre, Penguin, $15, 9780143119722 A remarkable novel of intrigue by the bestselling author of The Constant Gardener. |
12/8 |
13. | A Dog's Purpose W.Bruce Cameron, Forge, $12.99, 9780765330345 Cameron's wonderful novel is a dog's-eye look at human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend. |
14/2 |
14. | 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. |
/82 |
15. | Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart, Random House, $15, 9780812977868 The new satiric novel by the author of Absurdistan. |
15/6 |
ON THE RISE | ||
17. | Private Life Jane Smiley, Anchor, $15.95, 9781400033195 A riveting new historical novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. |
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