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Bestseller List for February 13, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending February 9, 2014
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Trade Paperback Fiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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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. |
1/5 |
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. |
2/27 |
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. |
3/45 |
4. |
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. |
4/5 |
5. |
Me Before You Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16, 9780143124542 A memorable love story about two people who couldn't have less in common. |
6/28 |
6. |
Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline, Morrow, $14.99, 9780061950728 A powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are. |
11/4 |
7. |
The Flamethrowers 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 is a National Book Award finalist. |
9/4 |
8. |
A Tale for the Time Being Ruth L. Ozeki, Penguin, $16, 9780143124870 Ozeki's brilliantly inventive and beguiling novel of our shared humanity and the search for home. |
7/6 |
9. |
Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061928178 Walter's dazzling yet deeply human novel spans 50 years and nearly as many lives. |
5/45 |
10. |
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. |
12/6 |
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. |
10/20 |
12. |
The Son- Debut Philipp Meyer, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062120403 Meyer's epic novel of the American West is a multigenerational saga of power, blood, land, and oil that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family. |
/1 |
13. |
A Week in Winter 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. |
13/4 |
14. |
The Dinner Herman Koch, Hogarth, $14, 9780385346856 Koch's novel reveals the dark side of genteel society. |
8/15 |
15. |
The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758 Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback. |
15/45 |
ON THE RISE | ||
17. |
The Woman Upstairs Claire Messud, Vintage, $15, 9780307743763 Messud's masterful novel explores the intensity, thrill, and cost of embracing an authentic life. |
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