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National Indie Bestsellers
Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for December 13, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending December 9, 2012
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| Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 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. |
1/6 |
| 2. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316 McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
4/2 |
| 3. | Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16, 9780312429980 The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize is now available in paperback. |
3/29 |
| 4. | 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. |
2/7 |
| 5. | Fifty Shades of Grey E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803481 The first novel in James' erotic, amusing, and deeply moving trilogy. |
7/35 |
| 6. | 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. |
8/30 |
| 7. | 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. |
5/27 |
| 8. | 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. |
9/11 |
| 9. | 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. |
10/5 |
| 10. | 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. |
6/22 |
| 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. |
11/35 |
| 12. | Rules of Civility Amor Towles, Penguin, $16, 9780143121169 Towles' captivating debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. |
12/23 |
| 13. | The Hobbit 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. |
14/2 |
| 14. | The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316126670 Harbach's outstanding debut novel about baseball, ambition, family, friendship, and commitment. |
/28 |
| 15. | 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. |
13/13 |
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| 24. | Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain, Ecco, $14.99, 9780060885618 Fountain's poignant, funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking novel was a National Book Award finalist. |
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