National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for June 13, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending June 9, 2013
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Joyland- Debut
Stephen King, Hard Case Crime, $12.95, 9781781162644
KIng's novel, set in a small-town amusement park in 1973, tells the story of a college student who comes to work as a carny and how his life is changed forever.		 /1
2. 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.		 1/7
3. Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061928178
Walter's dazzling yet deeply human novel spans 50 years and nearly as many lives.		 2/10
4. Flight Behavior- Debut
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062124272
Kingsolver's powerful novel about the complexities of modern life in rural Appalachia.		 /1
5. 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.		 3/10
6. 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.		 4/8
7. Entwined With You- Debut
Sylvia Day, Berkley, $15, 9780425263921
A new Crossfire novel by the author of Bared to You.		 /1
8. 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.		 5/6
9. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback.		 8/10
10. 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.		 7/3
11. 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.		 6/5
12. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316
McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.		 10/28
13. 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.		 11/61
14. A Hologram for the King- Debut
Dave Eggers, Vintage , $15.95, 9780307947512
Eggers takes readers around the world in this novel about one man's fight to hold himself and his family together in the face of the global economic crisis.		 /1
15. 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.		 9/14
ON THE RISE
16. Mission to Paris
Alan Furst, Random House, $16, 9780812981827
A dazzling new novel of intrigue by the bestselling author of Spies of the Balkans.		  

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