National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for March 28, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending March 24, 2013
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316
McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.		 1/16
2. The Great Gatsby
F.Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $15, 9780743273565
Fitzgerald's tale of America in the Jazz Age of the 1920s is a classic of 20th-century literature.		 7/11
3. Life of Pi
Yann Martel, Mariner, $15.95, 9780547848419
Martel's beloved 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel is now a major motion picture.		 2/20
4. 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.		 3/49
5. The Orchardist
Amanda Coplin, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062188519
Coplin's touching debut novel about a reclusive man who opens his heart and lets the world in.		 8/2
6. Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James, Vintage, $15, 9780307950659
James draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.		 5/11
7. 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.		 4/25
8. Rules of Civility
Amor Towles, Penguin, $16, 9780143121169
Towles' captivating debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose.		 6/37
9. Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16, 9780312429980
The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize is now available in paperback.		 9/43
10. Canada
Richard Ford, Ecco Press, $15.99, 9780061692031
Ford's masterful novel about the mysterious and consoling bonds of family.		 10/8
11. The Prisoner of Heaven- Debut
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780062206299
Carlos Ruiz Zafón takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and tells a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, and revenge.		 /1
12. 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.		 11/41
13. 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.		 14/19
14. 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.		 13/44
15. 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.		 12/36
ON THE RISE
18. Wool
Hugh Howey, S&S, $15, 9781476733951
Howey's highly original novel about a ruined and toxic landscape and the community that exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep.		  

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