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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for January 6, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending January 2, 2011
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | Freedom Jonathan Franzen, FSG, $28, 9780374158460 The new novel by the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections is a September Indie Next List Great Read. |
2/18 |
| 2. | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307269997 The stunning third and final novel in Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy. |
4/32 |
| 3. | Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus.), Little Brown, $21.99, 9780316038393 A funny, new collection of animal-themed tales for adults by the bestselling author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames. |
1/14 |
| 4. | Room Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316098335 Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child is the #1 September Indie Next List Great Read. |
9/17 |
| 5. | An Object of Beauty Steve Martin, Grand Central, $26.99, 9780446573641 Martin's latest novel is an engaging and clever look at the New York City art scene. |
5/6 |
| 6. | 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. |
3/99 |
| 7. | Dead or Alive Tom Clancy, Grant Blackwood, Putnam, $28.95, 9780399157233 Jack Ryan, Jr. searches for an international killer in Clancy's latest bestselling thriller. |
8/4 |
| 8. | The Confession John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385528047 In Grisham's latest thriller, an innocent man is about to be executed, and only a guilty man can save him. |
7/10 |
| 9. | Fall of Giants Ken Follett, Dutton, $36, 9780525951650 Book One of Follett's Century Trilogy is an October '10 Indie Next List Notable selection. |
6/14 |
| 10. | Lord of Misrule Jaimy Gordon, McPherson, $25, 9780929701837 Gordon's novel is the 2010 National Book Award winner for fiction. |
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| 11. | A Visit From the Goon Squad- Debut Jennifer Egan, Knopf , $25.95, 9780307592835 An exhilarating new novel by the author of The Keep. |
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| 12. | Luka and the Fire of Life Salman Rushdie, Random House, $25, 9780679463368 Rushdie's magical sequel to his fable Haroun and the Sea of Stories. |
11/6 |
| 13. | Port Mortuary Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $27.95, 9780399157219 Bestselling author Cornwell's 18th Kay Scarpetta novel. |
14/5 |
| 14. | Our Kind of Traitor John le Carre, Viking, $27.95, 9780670022243 A remarkable new novel of intrigue by the bestselling author of The Constant Gardener. |
12/12 |
| 15. | What the Night Knows- Debut Dean Koontz, Bantam, $28, 9780553807721 A chilling ghost story by the author of Breathless. |
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