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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for February 3, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending January 30, 2011
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. 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.
1/36
2. 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.
2/103
3. 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.
3/22
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.
4/21
5. 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.
5/18
6. Tick Tock- Debut
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316037914
The exciting new Michael Bennett novel from the authors of Worst Case.
/1
7. 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.
6/10
8. The Sentry
Robert Crais, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399157073
The new Joe Pike novel by the bestselling author of The First Rule.
7/3
9. Clara and Mr. Tiffany
Susan Vreeland, Random House, $26, 9781400068166
Vreeland's novel of New York near the turn of the 20th century is a January 2011 Indie Next List Great Read.
9/3
10. 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.
8/14
11. The Red Garden- Debut
Alice Hoffman, Crown , $25, 9780307393876
Hoffman's beautiful new novel about a small town in rural Massachusetts is February Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
12. Fall of Giants
Ken Follett, Dutton, $36, 9780525951650
Book One of Follett's Century Trilogy is an October '10 Indie Next List Notable selection.
12/18
13. While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction- Debut
Kurt Vonnegut, Delacorte , $27, 9780385343732
Sixteen previously unpublished short stories from the early years of Vonnegut's career.
/1
14. The Inner Circle
Brad Meltzer, Grand Central, $26.99, 9780446577892
A fascinating new thriller by the author of The Book of Lies.
14/3
15. A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan, Knopf , $25.95, 9780307592835
An exhilarating new novel by the author of The Keep.
15/4
ON THE RISE
16. The Weird Sisters
Eleanor Brown, Amy Einhorn Books, $24.95, 9780399157226
Eleanor Brown's delightful debut novel is a February Indie Next List Great Read.


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