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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for February 24, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending February 20, 2011
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | Swamplandia! Karen Russell, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307263995 Russell's beautiful and inventive debut novel is a February Indie Next List Great Read. |
2/3 |
| 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. |
1/39 |
| 3. | A Discovery of Witches 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. |
5/2 |
| 4. | Room Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316098335 Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child. |
4/24 |
| 5. | 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. |
3/106 |
| 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. |
6/21 |
| 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. |
7/25 |
| 8. | A Red Herring Without Mustard Alan Bradley, Delacorte, $23, 9780385342322 The beguiling new novel featuring the clever and unflappable 11-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. |
8/2 |
| 9. | Tick Tock James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316037914 The exciting new Michael Bennett novel from the authors of Worst Case. |
9/4 |
| 10. | While Mortals Sleep Kurt Vonnegut, Delacorte, $27, 9780385343732 Sixteen previously unpublished short stories from the early years of Vonnegut's career. |
12/4 |
| 11. | West of Here 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. |
13/2 |
| 12. | 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. |
15/3 |
| 13. | Fall of Giants Ken Follett, Dutton, $36, 9780525951650 Book One of Follett's Century Trilogy is an October '10 Indie Next List Notable selection. |
/20 |
| 14. | 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. |
11/13 |
| 15. | 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. |
/5 |
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| 22. | The Secret Soldier Alex Berenson, Putnam, $25.95, 9780399157080 A new John Wells novel by the author of The Midnight House. |
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