National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for January 23, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending January 19, 2014
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Life After Life
Kate Atkinson, Back Bay, $18, 9780316176491
Atkinson's inventive, darkly comic, and startlingly poignant novel about a woman who lives and dies over and over again.		 1/2
2. 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.		 2/24
3. Tenth of December
George Saunders, Random House, $15, 9780812984255
This unforgettable collection of stories by one of the most original writers of his generation was a National Book Award finalist.		 3/2
4. 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.		 4/42
5. Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061928178
Walter's dazzling yet deeply human novel spans 50 years and nearly as many lives.		 5/42
6. A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki, Penguin, $16, 9780143124870
Ozeki's brilliantly inventive and beguiling novel of our shared humanity and the search for home.		 6/3
7. Me Before You
Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16, 9780143124542
A memorable love story about two people who couldn't have less in common.		 7/25
8. The Golem and the Jinni
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.		 8/3
9. The Dinner
Herman Koch, Hogarth, $14, 9780385346856
Koch's novel reveals the dark side of genteel society.		 11/12
10. The Flamethrowers- Debut
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $17, 9781439142011
Kushner's riveting novel about a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970s was a National Book Award finalist.		 /1
11. 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.		 9/17
12. 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.		 10/17
13. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback.		 13/42
14. A Week in Winter- Debut
Maeve Binchy, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307475503
Binchy's novel looks at the lives of people at an inn in Western Ireland with all of her trademark warmth and humor.		 /1
15. The Aviator's Wife
Melanie Benjamin, Bantam, $15, 9780345528681
Benjamin's fascinating novel about the marriage of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.		 12/7
ON THE RISE
18. Benediction
Kent Haruf, Vintage, $15, 9780307950420
Haruf's brilliant novel about life and death and the ties that bind.		  

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