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Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for May 20, 2010
Based on sales for the week ending May 16, 2010
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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 2009 Indie Next List Great Read. | 1/66 |
| 2. | Dead in the Family Charlaine Harris, Ace, $25.95, 9780441018642 The new Sookie Stackhouse novel by the bestselling author of Dead and Gone. | 2/2 |
| 3. | Innocent Scott Turow, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446562423 The eagerly anticipated sequel to Turow's bestseller Presumed Innocent. | 3/2 |
| 4. | Island Beneath the Sea Isabel Allende, Harper, $26.99, 9780061988240 An entrancing new historical novel by the bestselling author of Ines of My Soul. | 4/3 |
| 5. | The Double Comfort Safari Club Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780375424502 A delightful, new novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. | 5/4 |
| 6. | Matterhorn Karl Marlantes, Atlantic Monthly, $24.95, 9780802119285 Marlantes' epic novel of the Vietnam War is an April Indie Next List Great Read. | 6/8 |
| 7. | The Imperfectionists Tom Rachman, Dial, $25, 9780385343664 Rachman's wry debut novel follows the lives of the staff of an international English-language newspaper in Rome. | 11/2 |
| 8. | This Body of Death Elizabeth George, Harper, $28.99, 9780061160882 Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley is back in the latest by the bestselling author of Careless in Red. | 8/4 |
| 9. | Every Last One Anna Quindlen, Random House, $26, 9781400065745 A breathtaking new novel by the bestselling author of One True Thing. | 7/5 |
| 10. | Imperfect Birds Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $25.95, 9781594487514 A powerful and redemptive novel about love and family, from the bestselling author of Grace (Eventually). | 9/6 |
| 11. | Heart of the Matter- Debut Emily Giffin, St. Martin's, $26.99, 9780312554163 An absorbing novel about marriage and infidelity by the author of Love the One You're With. | /1 |
| 12. | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson, Random House , $25, 9781400068937 Helen Simonson's charming debut novel is a March Indie Next List Great Read. | 10/11 |
| 13. | Beatrice and Virgil Yann Martel, Spiegel & Grau, $24, 9781400069262 Martel's follow-up to the bestselling and beloved Life of Pi is a May Indie Next List Great Read. | 13/5 |
| 14. | Tell-All Chuck Palahniuk, Doubleday, $24.95, 9780385526357 A funny homage to old Hollywood by the bestselling author of Pygmy. | 15/2 |
| 15. | Anthill E.O. Wilson, Norton , $24.95, 9780393071191 Pulitzer Prize-winner Wilson's wonderful debut novel is an April Indie Next List Great Read. | /3 |
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| 16. | Fever Dream Douglas J. Preston, Lincoln Child, Grand Central, $26.99, 9780446554961 The 10th thriller featuring FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast, from the bestselling authors of Cemetery Dance. | / |