October 21, 2020



Bestseller List for October 21, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2020
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. 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.
1/81
2. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
Miller's masterful follow-up to The Song of Achilles is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world.
2/27
3. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101971062
Gyasi's extraordinary novel illuminates slavery's troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed--and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.
7/35
4. The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $15.95, 9780345804341
Whitehead's masterful and haunting novel about two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida is the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
3/16
5. Normal People
Sally Rooney, Hogarth, $17.00, 9781984822185
Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.
6/35
6. This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $17.00, 9781476749303
A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression.
4/20
7. The Topeka School
Ben Lerner, Picador, $17.00, 9781250758002
Lerner's novel is a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the 21st century.
5/3
8. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624
Miller's monumental debut novel is an action-packed adventure and epic love story that brilliantly re-imagines Homer's enduring masterwork, The Iliad.
11/7
9. The Testaments
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $16.95, 9780525562627
Atwood's masterful sequel to her modern classic, The Handmaid's Tale.
8/7
10. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18.00, 9780441013593
Herbert's classic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination--is soon to be a major motion picture.
9/6
11. A Single Thread
Tracy Chevalier, Penguin, $17.00, 9780525558262
An immersive, moving novel of a woman coming into her own at the dawn of the Second World War.
13/2
12. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143135166
A riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of a picture-perfect family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Now a Hulu original series.
12/76
13. 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.
/77
14. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538732182
A post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror by the bestselling author of Kindred.
10/9
15. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk, Riverhead Books, $17.00, 9780525541349
Tokarczuk's Nobel Prize-winning novel is deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, and a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate.
/8


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