National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for April 10, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending April 6, 2014
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $15.95, 9780307455925
A dazzling novel of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria, by the author of Half of a Yellow Sun.		 1/5
2. The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer, Riverhead, $17, 9781594632341
Wolitzer's dazzling novel features complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City.		 2/2
3. 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.		 3/12
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.		 4/53
5. 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.		 6/13
6. Me Before You
Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16, 9780143124542
A memorable love story about two people who couldn't have less in common.		 9/36
7. Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061928178
Walter's dazzling yet deeply human novel spans 50 years and nearly as many lives.		 7/53
8. 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.		 8/35
9. 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.		 5/14
10. 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.		 12/12
11. Cockroaches
Jo Nesbø, Vintage, $14.95, 9780345807151
Inspector Harry Hole investigates the case of the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand found dead in a Bangkok brothel.		 10/8
12. Paris- Debut
Edward Rutherfurd, Ballantine, $18, 9780345530769
By the bestselling author of London and New York, Paris is a a dazzling portrait of the City of Light.		 /1
13. 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.		 14/28
14. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Anthony Marra, Hogarth, $15, 9780770436421
In Marra's sweeping debut novel, a resilient doctor risks everything to save the life of a hunted child during wartime.		 13/8
15. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback.		 /49
ON THE RISE
23. The Other Typist
Suzanne Rindell, Berkley, $16, 9780425268421
Rindell's haunting debut novel is set against the background of New York City in the 1920s.		  

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