National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for June 6, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending June 2, 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.		 1/6
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.		 2/9
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.		 3/9
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.		 4/7
5. The Art Forger
B.A. Shapiro, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616203160
Shapiro's absorbing literary thriller treats readers to three centuries of forgers, art thieves, and obsessive collectors.		 5/5
6. Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel, Picador USA, $16, 9781250024176
Mantel's follow-up to Wolf Hall is the winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize.		 7/4
7. World War Z
Max Brooks, Broadway, $14.95, 9780770437411
The story of civilization's battle against the threat of zombies is now a major motion picture.		 11/2
8. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback.		 6/9
9. 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.		 8/13
10. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316
McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.		 10/27
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.		 9/60
12. 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.		 15/10
13. The Yellow Birds
Kevin Powers, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316219341
This powerful novel, written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, is a harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive.		 12/5
14. Broken Harbor
Tana French, Penguin, $16, 9780143123309
A riveting Dublin Murder Squad novel by the bestselling author of In the Woods.		 13/5
15. Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16, 9780312429980
The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize is now available in paperback.		 /48

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