National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for February 17, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending February 13, 2011
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 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. |
1/38 |
| 2. | Swamplandia! Karen Russell, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307263995 Russell's beautiful and inventive debut novel is a February Indie Next List Great Read. |
5/2 |
| 3. | 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. |
3/105 |
| 4. | Room Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316098335 Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child. |
2/23 |
| 5. | A Discovery of Witches- Debut Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95, 9780670022410 This richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and a mysterious manuscript is a February Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
| 6. | 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. |
7/20 |
| 7. | 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. |
4/24 |
| 8. | A Red Herring Without Mustard- Debut Alan Bradley, Delacorte, $23, 9780385342322 The beguiling new novel featuring the clever and unflappable 11-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. |
/1 |
| 9. | Tick Tock James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316037914 The exciting new Michael Bennett novel from the authors of Worst Case. |
11/3 |
| 10. | The Red Garden Alice Hoffman, Crown, $25, 9780307393876 Hoffman's beautiful new novel about a small town in rural Massachusetts is a February Indie Next List Great Read. |
9/3 |
| 11. | 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. |
6/12 |
| 12. | While Mortals Sleep Kurt Vonnegut, Delacorte, $27, 9780385343732 Sixteen previously unpublished short stories from the early years of Vonnegut's career. |
8/3 |
| 13. | West of Here- Debut Jonathan Evison, Algonquin, $24.95, 9781565129528 Evison's epic novel about the fictional town of Port Bonita, Washington, is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for February. |
/1 |
| 14. | The Sentry Robert Crais, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399157073 The new Joe Pike novel by the bestselling author of The First Rule. |
13/5 |
| 15. | The Weird Sisters Eleanor Brown, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95, 9780399157226 Brown's delightful debut novel is a February Indie Next List Great Read. |
15/2 |
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| 18. | I Think I Love You Allison Pearson, Knopf , $24.95, 9781400042357 Pearson's latest novel is funny, moving, and full of observations about the awakenings of both youth and middle age. |
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