National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for June 1, 2016
Based on sales for the week ending May 29, 2016
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Me Before You
Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16.00, 9780143109464
A memorable love story about two people who couldn't have less in common. Now a major motion picture.		 1/69
2. The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16.00, 9780802124944
Nguyen's blistering novel of identity, politics, and America is a 2016 Indies Choice Adult Fiction Honor Book and winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.		 2/6
3. A Spool of Blue Thread
Anne Tyler, Ballantine, $16.00, 9780553394399
Tyler's poignant yet unsentimental novel in praise of family in all its emotional complexity.		 3/5
4. The Girl in the Spider's Web- Debut
David Lagercrantz, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $16.95, 9781101872000
Acclaimed Swedish journalist and author Lagercrantz continues Stieg Larsson's Millennium series as Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return in this adrenaline-charged thriller.		 /1
5. 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.		 4/38
6. 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.		 5/52
7. The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George, Broadway, $16.00, 9780553418798
George's novel is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people's lives.		 6/10
8. Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062409867
Lee's landmark novel, which is set two decades after To Kill a Mockingbird, is actually the first draft of the story she reworked to create her Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece.		 7/4
9. In the Unlikely Event
Judy Blume, Vintage, $15.95, 9781101873984
Blume's richly textured and moving story of three generations of families, friends, and strangers whose lives are profoundly changed by unexpected events.		 8/4
10. The Crossing
Michael Connelly, Grand Central, $15.99, 9781455524143
Harry Bosch crosses the line to team up with Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller in Connelly's new thriller.		 9/4
11. Luckiest Girl Alive
Jessica Knoll, S&S, $15.99, 9781476789644
Knoll's novel introduces a heroine whose sharp edges and cutthroat ambition have been protecting a scandalous truth and a heart that's bigger than it first appears.		 10/8
12. 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.		 13/28
13. A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $17.00, 9780804172707
Yanagihara's astonishing novel about love and friendship in the 21st century was a March 2015 Indie Next List Great Read and a National Book Award finalist.		 11/18
14. My Sunshine Away
M.O. Walsh, Putnam, $16.00, 9780425278109
Walsh's astonishing and page-turning debut about the meaning of family, the power of memory, and our ability to forgive.		 14/7
15. 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.		 15/29
ON THE RISE
18. Seveneves
Neal Stephenson, Morrow, $17.99, 9780062334510
The progeny of a handful of outer-space explorers embark on an audacious journey to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.		  

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