National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for December 6, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending December 2, 2012
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Life of Pi
Yann Martel, Mariner, $15.95, 9780547848419
Martel's beloved 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel is now a major motion picture.		 1/5
2. Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell, Random House, $15, 9780812984415
The dazzling third novel by the author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is now a major motion picture.		 2/6
3. Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16, 9780312429980
The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize is now available in paperback.		 7/28
4. The Paris Wife- Debut
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316
McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.		 /1
5. The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307947727
In this novel by the author of Pulse, a middle-aged man contends with a past he has never much thought about.		 4/26
6. The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern, Anchor, $15, 9780307744432
Morgenstern's spell-casting debut novel about a mysterious circus and a duel between two young magicians.		 6/21
7. Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803481
The first novel in James' erotic, amusing, and deeply moving trilogy.		 5/34
8. State of Wonder
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062049810
A provocative novel set deep in the Amazon jungle, by the author of Bel Canto.		 8/29
9. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $14, 9781451696196
Chbosky's powerful novel of the wild and poignant days of adolescence is now a major motion picture.		 3/10
10. The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey, Reagan Arthur/Back Bay Books, $14.99, 9780316175661
Ivey's touching novel is set in the Alaskan wilderness of the 1920s.		 10/4
11. The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Ballantine, $15, 9780345525550
Diffenbaugh's beautiful debut novel about a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others.		 12/34
12. Rules of Civility
Amor Towles, Penguin, $16, 9780143121169
Towles' captivating debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose.		 11/22
13. The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides, Picador, $16, 9781250014764
The impressive novel about the lives of three seniors at Brown University in the early 1980s by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex.		 9/12
14. The Hobbit- Debut
J.R.R. Tolkien, Mariner, $13.95, 9780547928227
Tolkien's modern classic and prelude to The Lord of the Rings is now a major motion picture.		 /1
15. Fifty Shades Freed
E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803504
Book Three in James' bestselling 50 Shades Trilogy.		 14/32
ON THE RISE
19. How It All Began
Penelope Lively, Penguin, $16, 9780143122647
Lively's novel explores the powerful role of chance in people's lives and the surprising ways lives intersect.		  


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