National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for July 21, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending July 17, 2011
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132
Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s.		 1/15
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.		 4/17
3. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country.		 3/77
4. Room
Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328
Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child.		 2/10
5. Faithful Place
Tana French, Penguin, $16, 9780143119494
A mesmerizing Dublin murder squad novel by the bestselling author of The Likeness.		 5/3
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).		 7/33
7. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616200701
An indie fave about a traveling circus is now a major motion picture.		 6/129
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.		 9/110
9. The Postmistress
Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691
Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII.		 8/24
10. Star Island
Carl Hiaasen, Grand Central, $14.99, 9780446556125
Hiaasen's hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane.		 13/4
11. One Day
David Nicholls, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307946713
A moving love story by the author of The Understudy.		 15/3
12. 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.		 10/6
13. 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.		 12/28
14. Little Bee
Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648
Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England.		 11/74
15. French Lessons
Ellen Sussman, Ballantine, $15, 9780345522771
A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city.		 14/2
ON THE RISE
16. The Cookbook Collector
Allegra Goodman, Dial Press, $15, 9780385340861
A delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and holding on to what is real in a virtual world.


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