National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for September 19, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending September 15, 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.
1/24
2. 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.
2/24
3. Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062124272
Kingsolver's powerful novel about the complexities of modern life in rural Appalachia.
3/15
4. The Casual Vacancy
J.K. Rowling, Little Brown, $18, 9780316228589
Rowling's darkly comic and thought-provoking first novel for adults.
5/8
5. The Silent Wife
A.S.A. Harrison, Penguin, $16, 9780143123231
Harrison's expertly plotted novel about a married couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can't be made, and promises that won't be kept.
4/6
6. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback.
6/24
7. This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Diaz, Riverhead, $16, 9781594631771
A collection of stories by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
8/2
8. Telegraph Avenue- Debut
Michael Chabon, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780061493355
Chabon's big-hearted, exhilarating novel explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families.
/1
9. Me Before You
Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16, 9780143124542
A memorable love story about two people who couldn't have less in common.
7/7
10. 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.
9/22
11. 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.
12/20
12. Dear Life
Alice Munro, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307743725
A brilliant collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time.
10/7
13. 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.
11/17
14. The Bat
Jo Nesbø, Vintage, $14.95, 9780345807090
The first Inspector Harry Hole novel by the bestselling author of The Redeemer.
13/11
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.
15/22

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