August 7, 2019



Bestseller List for August 7, 2019
Based on sales for the week ending August 4, 2019
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17.00, 9780735224315
A riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of a picture-perfect family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.
1/13
2. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
National Book Award-winner Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world.
3/18
3. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris, Harper, $16.99, 9780062797155
A testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions. A September 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.
2/48
4. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143110439
Towles' transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.
5/19
5. Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate, Ballantine, $17.00, 9780425284704
Wingate's novel, which is based on a notorious adoption scandal, is a riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale that reminds us the heart never forgets where we belong.
4/11
6. The Witch Elm- Debut
Tana French, Penguin, $17.00, 9780735224643
A spellbinding standalone novel by the bestselling author of the Dublin Murder Squad series.
/1
7. The Woman in the Window
A.J. Finn, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062678423
Finn's smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense is soon to be a major motion picture.
7/22
8. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman, Penguin, $16.00, 9780735220690
Honeyman's novel is a smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and wit make for an irresistible journey.
6/61
9. There There (An Indies Introduce Title)
Tommy Orange, Vintage, $16.00, 9780525436140
Orange's debut novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen.
8/13
10. Ghosted
Rosie Walsh, Penguin, $16.00, 9780525522799
Seven perfect days. Then he disappeared. Ghosted is a love story with a secret at its heart.
9/6
11. My Sister, the Serial Killer- Debut
Oyinkan Braithwaite, Anchor, $14.95, 9780525564201
Braithwaite's darkly funny novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends.
/1
12. The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin, Putnam, $16.00, 9780735215092
Benjamin's sweeping novel probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next.
12/26
13. My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh, Penguin, $16.00, 9780525522133
Moshfegh's darkly comic novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation.
10/5
14. The Reckoning
John Grisham, Bantam, $17.00, 9781984819581
Reminiscent of the finest tradition of Southern Gothic storytelling, The Reckoning would not be complete without Grisham's signature layers of legal suspense, and he delivers on every page.
11/6
15. The Outsider
Stephen King, Gallery, $18.99, 9781501181009
An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. With The Outsider, King has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable novels.
14/9
ON THE RISE
17. Hippie
Paulo Coelho, Vintage, $15.00, 9780525565185
In his new novel, Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order.
 


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