National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for September 17, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending September 13, 2015
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Martian
Andy Weir, Broadway, $15.00, 9781101903582
Weir's remarkable debut novel about an astronaut stranded on Mars and his fight for survival is now a major motion picture.		 1/46
2. Euphoria
Lily King, Grove Press, $16.00, 9780802123701
A breathtaking novel about three young anthropologists of the '30s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives.		 2/26
3. Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty, Berkley, $16.00, 9780425274866
A novel about three women, each at a crossroads, by the bestselling author of The Husband's Secret.		 5/5
4. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17.00, 9781609450786
A rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends by one of Italy's most acclaimed authors.		 6/15
5. Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $16.00, 9780143127550
Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle to understand one another.		 4/17
6. Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, Vintage, $15.95, 9780804172448
St. John Mandel's audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse.		 8/15
7. The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $18.00, 9781609452865
The fourth and final installment in the Neapolitan Novels series by the bestselling author of Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.		 3/2
8. The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, Back Bay, $20.00, 9780316055444
Tartt's novel--plumbing the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art--is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.		 7/23
9. The Boston Girl
Anita Diamant, Scribner, $16.00, 9781439199367
Diamant's unforgettable novel about family ties, values, friendship, and feminism seen through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early 20th century.		 10/6
10. Gray Mountain
John Grisham, Bantam, $16.00, 9781101964873
When a Wall Street lawyer takes on a case in a small Virgina town, she finds herself engulfed in litigation that turns deadly.		 9/4
11. The Paying Guests- Debut
Sarah Waters, Riverhead, $17.00, 9781594633928
An enthralling novel about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s London.		 /1
12. Grey
E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9781101946343
A fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the world.		 11/13
13. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Perennial, $14.99, 9780060935467
One of the best-loved stories of all time, Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a masterwork of honor and injustice--and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred.		 15/14
14. Leaving Time
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $16.00, 9780345544940
A deeply moving, gripping, and intelligent novel, Leaving Time is Jodi Picoult at the height of her powers.		 12/19
15. 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.		 /76

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