National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for March 15, 2017
Based on sales for the week ending March 12, 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.		 1/79
2. Lilac Girls
Martha Hall Kelly, Ballantine, $17.00, 9781101883082
Kelly's debut novel is an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades.		 2/2
3. 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.		 6/27
4. 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.		 3/47
5. 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.		 4/14
6. Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty, Berkley, $16.00, 9780399587191
A novel about three women, each at a crossroads, by the bestselling author of The Husband's Secret. Now an HBO limited series.		 7/*
7. 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.		 10/6
8. 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.		 8/47
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.		 14/37
10. 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.		 12/5
11. 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.		 5/5
12. The Summer Before the War
Helen Simonson, Random House, $17.00, 9780812983203
Simonson's breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World War I.		 9/3
13. 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.		 13/35
14. The Shack
Wm. Paul Young, Windblown Media, $15.99, 9781455567607
A man's relationship with God is changed when his daughter is abducted. Now a major motion picture.		 /*
15. Three Sisters, Three Queens
Philippa Gregory, Touchstone, $16.99, 9781476758749
Gregory's gripping Tudor novel vividly reveals the pivotal roles three queens played in Henry VIII's kingdom.		 15/3
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17. Home
Harlan Coben, Dutton, $16.00, 9781101986455
Coben's novel is an explosive and deeply moving thriller about friendship, family, and the meaning of home.		  

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