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Bestseller List for April 4, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending March 31, 2013
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Trade Paperback Fiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. |
The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316 McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
1/18 |
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. |
5/13 |
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. |
4/22 |
4. |
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. |
2/4 |
5. |
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. |
6/27 |
6. |
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. |
3/51 |
7. |
The Prisoner of Heaven 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. |
9/3 |
8. |
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. |
7/13 |
9. |
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. |
12/38 |
10. |
Rules of Civility Amor Towles, Penguin, $16, 9780143121169 Towles' captivating debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. |
10/39 |
11. |
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry- Debut Rachel Joyce, Random House, $15, 9780812983456 Joyce's novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we bury within our hearts. |
/1 |
12. |
Things Fall Apart- Debut Chinua Achebe, Anchor, $11.95, 9780385474542 Achebe's classic novel centering on Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria, before and after the arrival of colonialism. |
/1 |
13. |
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. |
15/46 |
14. |
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16, 9780312429980 The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize is now available in paperback. |
13/45 |
15. |
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. |
14/21 |
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