National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for October 15, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending October 11, 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.		 1/50
2. 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.		 2/19
3. 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.		 3/30
4. Lila- Debut
Marilynne Robinson, Picador USA, $16.00, 9781250074843
The remarkable novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.		 /1
5. 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.		 6/19
6. The Paying Guests
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.		 5/5
7. 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.		 4/21
8. The Best American Short Stories 2015- Debut
T.C. Boyle, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780547939414
A very satisfying collection of the year's best short stories.		 /1
9. 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.		 8/8
10. Memory Man
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $15.99, 9781455559817
In Memory Man, Baldacci introduces a startling, original new character: Amos Decker, a man with perfect memory who must solve his own family's murder.		 9/4
11. 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.		 7/9
12. The Good Girl
Mary Kubica, Mira, $14.95, 9780778317760
Kubica's propulsive debut novel reveals how even in the perfect family, nothing is as it seems.		 10/5
13. 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.		 12/6
14. 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.		 11/27
15. A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16.00, 9781476738024
In Backman's charming novel, a grumpy yet lovable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door.		 14/6

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