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National Indie Bestsellers
Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for December 27, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending December 23, 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. |
1/8 |
| 2. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316 McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
2/4 |
| 3. | Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16, 9780312429980 The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize is now available in paperback. |
3/31 |
| 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. |
4/9 |
| 5. | Fifty Shades of Grey E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803481 The first novel in James' erotic, amusing, and deeply moving trilogy. |
5/37 |
| 6. | 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. |
6/4 |
| 7. | 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. |
9/32 |
| 8. | 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. |
7/24 |
| 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. |
8/13 |
| 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. |
10/7 |
| 11. | 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. |
11/29 |
| 12. | The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316126670 Harbach's outstanding debut novel about baseball, ambition, family, friendship, and commitment. |
14/30 |
| 13. | The Best American Short Stories 2012 Tom Perrotta, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780547242101 A very satisfying collection of the year's best short stories. |
15/5 |
| 14. | Rules of Civility Amor Towles, Penguin, $16, 9780143121169 Towles' captivating debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. |
12/25 |
| 15. | 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. |
13/37 |