National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for March 22, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending March 18, 2012
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht, Random House, $15, 9780385343848
Debut author Obreht's bestselling tale of myth and legend is now available in paperback.
1/20
2. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307454560
The stunning third and final novel in Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy.
2/4
3. The Weird Sisters
Eleanor Brown, Berkley, $15, 9780425244142
Brown's delightful novel about three sisters who love each other, but just don't happen to like each other very much.
3/6
4. 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.
4/11
5. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country.
6/112
6. 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.
9/23
7. The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132
Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s.
5/50
8. 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.
8/12
9. A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477
Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback.
7/52
10. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307472984
The new No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novel follows The Double Comfort Safari Club.
10/2
11. Doc
Mary Doria Russell, Ballantine, $15, 9780812980004
Russell's vibrant novel about John Henry "Doc" Holliday.
13/2
12. Fifty Shades of Grey- Debut
E.L. James, Writer's Coffee Shop, $29.99, 9781612130286
An erotic, amusing, and deeply moving tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you.
/1
13. 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.
12/143
14. A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness, Penguin, $16, 9780143119685
A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and a mysterious manuscript.
15/12
15. A Lesson in Secrets
Jacqueline Winspear, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780061727719
Maisie Dobbs takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment from the British Secret Service.
11/2


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