National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for January 9, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending January 5, 2014
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Dear Life
Alice Munro, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307743725
A brilliant collection of stories from one of the most beloved writers of our time and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.		 1/22
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.		 2/40
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.		 3/40
4. The Round House
Louise Erdrich, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062065254
The masterful novel by the author of The Plague of Doves is the 2012 National Book Award-winner for fiction.		 4/15
5. The Golem and the Jinni- Debut
Helene Wecker, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062110848
A chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York.		 /1
6. A Tale for the Time Being- Debut
Ruth Ozeki, Penguin, $16, 9780143124870
Ozeki's brilliantly inventive and beguiling novel of our shared humanity and the search for home.		 /1
7. Me Before You
Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16, 9780143124542
A memorable love story about two people who couldn't have less in common.		 10/23
8. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan, Picador, $15, 9781250037756
Sloan's dazzling literary adventure, set mostly in a small San Francisco bookstore, is now available in paperback.		 7/15
9. The Dinner
Herman Koch, Hogarth, $14, 9780385346856
Koch's novel reveals the dark side of genteel society.		 9/10
10. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback.		 13/40
11. 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.		 11/38
12. The Aviator's Wife
Melanie Benjamin, Bantam, $15, 9780345528681
Benjamin's fascinating novel about the marriage of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.		 12/5
13. Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062124272
Kingsolver's powerful novel about the complexities of modern life in rural Appalachia.		 5/31
14. 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.		 14/15
15. Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780061493355
Chabon's big-hearted, exhilarating novel explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families.		 8/17

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