National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for December 30, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending December 27, 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.		 1/61
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.		 2/30
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.		 3/41
4. 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.		 5/30
5. A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James, Riverhead, $17.00, 9781594633942
James's fictional exploration of a dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica's history and beyond is the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize.		 6/11
6. Brooklyn
Colm Toibin, Scribner, $15.00, 9781501106477
The bestselling coming-of-age novel set in Ireland and Brooklyn in the 1950s is now a major motion picture.		 7/6
7. Descent
Tim Johnston, Algonquin, $15.95, 9781616204778
When a young woman goes missing on a family vacation to the Rocky Mountains, the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic.		 4/4
8. The Best American Short Stories 2015
T.C. Boyle, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780547939414
A very satisfying collection of the year's best short stories.		 11/10
9. Trigger Warning
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062330321
Gaiman dazzles, captivates, haunts, and entertains with this collection of short fiction.		 10/8
10. 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.		 8/16
11. Lila
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.		 9/12
12. Ready Player One
Ernest Cline, Broadway, $16.00, 9780307887443
Cline's wildly original and nostalgic debut novel, set in the year 2044.		 /6
13. 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.		 /28
14. 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.		 /78
15. The Story of a New Name
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $18.00, 9781609451349
Two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others.		 14/3

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