National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for April 19, 2017
Based on sales for the week ending April 16, 2017
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $17.00, 9781501173219
Doerr's beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France during World War II.		 1/2
2. 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.		 2/84
3. The Nest
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062414229
Sweeney's warm, funny, and perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of their shared inheritance.		 4/2
4. The Woman in Cabin 10- Debut
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $16.00, 9781501132957
A suspenseful and haunting novel by the bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood.		 /1
5. 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.		 3/7
6. 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.		 6/32
7. Sweetbitter
Stephanie Danler, Vintage, $16.00, 9781101911860
A lush, raw, and thrilling novel about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young woman, set in the wild and seductive world of a famous New York City restaurant.		 13/2
8. 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.		 8/10
9. 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.		 5/8
10. 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.		 7/11
11. 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.		 9/19
12. 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.		 10/42
13. 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.		 11/52
14. The Circle
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $16.00, 9780345807298
An exhilarating novel by the bestselling author of A Hologram for the King.		 /11
15. 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.		 12/52

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