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Bestseller List for September 8, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending September 4, 2011
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Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | The Help Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132 Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s. |
1/22 |
2. | Sarah's Key Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $13.99, 9781250004345 This mesmerizing story of a tragic past, and a present torn apart, is now a major motion picture. |
2/107 |
3. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. |
5/84 |
4. | A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477 Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback. |
3/24 |
5. | Room Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328 Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child. |
4/17 |
6. | One Day David Nicholls, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307946713 A moving love story by the author of The Understudy. |
6/10 |
7. | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223 Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired). |
8/40 |
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. |
7/117 |
9. | Fall of Giants- Debut Ken Follett, NAL, $25, 9780451232571 Book One of Follett's Century Trilogy is now available in paperback. |
/1 |
10. | The Postmistress Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691 Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII. |
9/31 |
11. | Water for Elephants Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616200701 Indies are still handselling this rich, romantic story set in a long-ago traveling circus. |
11/136 |
12. | 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. |
10/35 |
13. | Swamplandia! Karen Russell, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307276681 Russell's wonderfully imaginative debut novel about a run-down Everglades tourist attraction is now available in paperback. |
13/6 |
14. | Little Bee Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648 Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England. |
15/81 |
15. | The Cookbook Collector Allegra Goodman, Dial, $15, 9780385340861 A delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and holding on to what is real in a virtual world. |
12/7 |
ON THE RISE | ||
16. | Great House Nicole Krauss, Norton, $14.95, 9780393340648 A brilliant novel by the bestselling author of The History of Love. |
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