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Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for July 30, 2009
Based on sales for the week ending July 26, 2009
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List | |
| 1. | The Help Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95, 9780399155345 This wonderful debut set in the rural South of the 1960s is a February Indie Next List Great Read. | 1/24 |
| 2. | The Defector - Debut Daniel Silva, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399155680 Art restorer and assassin Gabriel Allon retrurns in Silva's follow-up to his bestseller Moscow Rules. | /1 |
| 3. | The Angel's Game Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385528702 The dazzling new novel from the bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind is a July Indie Next List Great Read. | 2/6 |
| 4. | Shanghai Girls Lisa See, Random House, $25, 9781400067114 A fascinating novel of two sisters by the author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. | 3/9 |
| 5. | Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner, Atria, $26.99, 9780743294294 The latest novel by the bestselling author of Certain Girls. | 5/2 |
| 6. | Rain Gods James Lee Burke, S&S, $25.99, 9781439128244 Edgar Award-winning Burke returns with a new novel featuring Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland. | 7/2 |
| 7. | Finger Lickin' Fifteen Janet Evanovich, St. Martin's, $27.95, 9780312383282 The new Stephanie Plum novel by the bestselling author of Fearless Fourteen. | 4/5 |
| 8. | Swimsuit James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316018777 A supermodel disappears while on a photo shoot in Hawaii. | 6/4 |
| 9. | The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Alan Bradley, Delacorte, $23, 9780385342308 Bradley's acclaimed debut featuring 11-year-old sleuth, Flavia de Luce, is a May Indie Next List Great Read. | 10/13 |
| 10. | The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane Katherine Howe, Voice, $25.99, 9781401340902 Katherine Howe's spellbinding debut novel is a June 2009 Indie Next List Great Read. | 8/7 |
| 11. | A Short History of Women Kate Walbert, Scribner, $24, 9781416594987 Walbert's wonderful new novel chronicles mother and daughter relationships over five generations. | 14/6 |
| 12. | Brooklyn Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $25, 9781439138311 This coming-of-age novel set in Ireland and Brooklyn of the 1950s is a May Indie Next List Great Read. | 12/12 |
| 13. | Jericho's Fall - Debut Stephen L. Carter, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307272621 A spy thriller from the bestselling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park. | /1 |
| 14. | The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder Rebecca Wells, Harper, $25.99, 9780060175313 A new stand-alone novel from the bestselling author of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. | 9/3 |
| 15. | Twenties Girl - Debut Sophie Kinsella, Dial, $26, 9780385342025 A charming new novel by the bestselling author of Confessions of a Shopaholic. | /1 |
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| 17. | Sacred Hearts Sarah Dunant, Random House, $25, 9781400063826 A rewarding new novel of a 16th-century Italian convent by the author of The Birth of Venus. |