National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for February 22, 2017
Based on sales for the week ending February 19, 2017
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Weeks on List
1. 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.		 1/76
2. A Dog's Purpose
W. Bruce Cameron, Forge, $14.99, 9780765388117
Cameron's moving and beautifully crafted story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose. Now a major motion picture.		 2/11
3. Britt-Marie Was Here
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16.00, 9781501142543
Backman's irresistible novel about finding love and second chances in the most unlikely of places.		 5/2
4. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16.00, 9781501115073
This warmhearted novel by the bestselling author of A Man Called Ove is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.		 3/44
5. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256
Kaur's collection of poetry and prose about survival and the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.		 6/24
6. 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.		 11/44
7. The Widow
Fiona Barton, Berkley, $16.00, 9781101990476
Barton's electrifying thriller takes readers into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife.		 9/5
8. All the Missing Girls
Megan Miranda, S&S, $16.00, 9781501107979
A masterful psychological suspense novel about the disappearances of two young women--a decade apart--told in reverse.		 8/3
9. In a Dark, Dark Wood
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $16.00, 9781501112331
Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller is soon to be a major motion picture.		 10/34
10. The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $16.00, 9780735212152
Hawkins' bestselling debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives is now a major motion picture.		 7/32
11. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $15.95, 9780385490818
Atwood's funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing novel is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and literary tour de force.		 4/2
12. The Sellout
Paul Beatty, Picador USA, $16.00, 9781250083258
Beatty's biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court is the winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize.		 12/17
13. Everybody's Fool
Richard Russo, Vintage, $16.95, 9780307454829
Russo, at the very top of his game, returns to North Bath, New York, and the characters from his beloved novel Nobody's Fool.		 13/3
14. 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.		 15/44
15. Here's to Us- Debut
Elin Hilderbrand, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316375160
Three romantic rivals gather in Nantucket in this novel by the bestselling author of The Rumor.		 /1

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