National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for September 15, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending September 11, 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.		 1/23
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.		 2/108
3. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country.		 3/85
4. Room
Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328
Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child.		 5/18
5. A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477
Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback.		 4/25
6. One Day
David Nicholls, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307946713
A moving love story by the author of The Understudy.		 6/11
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).		 7/41
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.		 8/118
9. Fall of Giants
Ken Follett, NAL, $25, 9780451232571
Book One of Follett's Century Trilogy is now available in paperback.		 9/2
10. The Postmistress
Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691
Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII.		 10/32
11. 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.		 13/7
12. By Nightfall- Debut
Michael Cunningham, Picador, $15, 9780312610432
Cunningham's poetic and compelling novel is a heartbreaking look at a marriage.		 /1
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.		 12/36
14. Little Bee
Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648
Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England.		 14/82
15. Great House- Debut
Nicole Krauss, Norton, $14.95, 9780393340648
A brilliant novel by the bestselling author of The History of Love.		 /1
ON THE RISE
19. Headhunters
Jo Nesbø, Vintage , $14.95, 9780307948687
A funny, dark, and twisted caper story by the bestselling author of The Snowman.


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