National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for May 2, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending April 28, 2013
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Great Gatsby
F.Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $15, 9781451689433
Fitzgerald's tale of America in the Jazz Age of the 1920s is a classic of 20th-century literature, and now a major motion picture.		 2/16
2. Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061928178
Walter's dazzling yet deeply human novel spans 50 years and nearly as many lives.		 1/4
3. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316204262
Semple's compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's roles in an absurd world.		 3/4
4. The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson, Random House, $15, 9780812982626
Johnson's epic story of a young man's journey through the mysterious dictatorship of North Korea.		 7/2
5. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback.		 5/4
6. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316
McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.		 4/22
7. 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.		 8/55
8. 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.		 6/8
9. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
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.		 10/5
10. Istanbul Passage
Joseph Kanon, Washington Square Press, $16, 9781439156438
Kanon's haunting novel about a man swept up in the dawn of the Cold War.		 9/2
11. Phantom- Debut
Jo Nesbø, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307951151
A riveting Harry Hole novel by the bestselling author of The Leopard.		 /1
12. The Black Box- Debut
Michael Connelly, Grand Central, $14.99, 9781455526956
Harry Bosch searches for the "black box," the one piece of evidence that will pull an unsolved murder mystery together.		 /1
13. The Sandcastle Girls- Debut
Chris Bohjalian, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307743916
An unforgettable historical love story steeped in Bohjalian's Armenian heritage.		 /1
14. 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.		 12/46
15. The Yard
Alex Grecian, Berkley, $16, 9780425261279
Grecian's outstanding debut novel about Scotland Yard in late Victorian London.		 /2

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