National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for July 18, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending July 14, 2013
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061928178
Walter's dazzling yet deeply human novel spans 50 years and nearly as many lives.		 1/15
2. Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062124272
Kingsolver's powerful novel about the complexities of modern life in rural Appalachia.		 2/6
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.		 4/15
4. Joyland
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.		 3/6
5. 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.		 6/13
6. Sweet Tooth
Ian McEwan, Anchor, $15.95, 9780345803450
A wonderfully witty novel of betrayal and intrigue by the bestselling author of The Innocent.		 15/2
7. The Bat
Jo Nesbø, Vintage, $14.95, 9780345807090
The first Inspector Harry Hole novel by the bestselling author of The Redeemer.		 7/2
8. 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.		 5/8
9. 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.		 10/12
10. 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.		 9/11
11. A Hologram for the King
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.		 8/6
12. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback.		 11/15
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.		 13/66
14. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316
McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.		 12/33
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.		 /18
ON THE RISE
22. Back to Blood
Tom Wolfe, Back Bay, $18, 9780316036337
Set in Miami, Wolfe's novel is a funny and insightful look at America in the 21st century.		  

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