National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for January 5, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending January 1, 2012
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Tiger's Wife
Tea Obreht, Random House, $15, 9780385343848
Debut author Obreht's bestselling tale of myth and legend is now available in paperback.		 1/9
2. The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132
Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s.		 2/39
3. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307949493
The first installment in the bestselling thriller trilogy by the late Swedish journalist Larsson.		 3/7
4. 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.		 6/12
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.		 7/41
6. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country.		 4/101
7. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer, Mariner, $14.95, 9780547735023
Foer's warm and brilliant imaginings from the viewpoint of a boy left fatherless by 9/11 is now a major motion picture.		 /*
8. The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307454553
The highly anticipated sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.		 14/50
9. Freedom
Jonathan Franzen, Picador, $16, 9780312576462
The new novel by the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections.		 13/14
10. Sarah's Key
Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $13.99, 9781250004345
A mesmerizing story of a tragic past, and a present torn apart.		 9/124
11. Room
Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328
Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child.		 12/34
12. 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.		 5/134
13. A Discovery of Witches- Debut
Deborah Harkness, Penguin , $16, 9780143119685
A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and a mysterious manuscript.		 /1
14. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy- Debut
John le Carré, Penguin, $16, 9780143120933
Le Carré's celebrated heart-stopping tale of international intrigue is now a major motion picture.		 /1
15. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223
Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired).		 11/57
ON THE RISE
17. The House at Tyneford
Natasha Solomons, Plume , $15, 9780452297647
A young Jewish woman is forced to flee 1938 Vienna and becomes a parlor maid in England.		  


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