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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for March 31, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending March 27, 2011
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Tiger's Wife
Tea Obreht, Random House, $25, 9780385343831
Debut author Obreht tells a tale of myth and legend in this #1 Indie Next Great Read for March 2011.
1/3
2. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309
This new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway is a March Indie Next List Great Read.
2/5
3. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party- Debut
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780307378392
The new No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novel following The Double Comfort Safari Club.
/1
4. A Lesson in Secrets- Debut
Jacqueline Winspear, Harper, $25.99, 9780061727672
Winspear's new Maisie Dobbs novel is an April Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
5. Sing You Home
Jodi Picoult, Atria, $28, 9781439102725
Picoult's new book is about about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood.
3/4
6. Live Wire- Debut
Harlan Coben, Dutton, $27.95, 9780525952060
An explosive new thriller by the bestselling author of Long Lost.
/1
7. Room
Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316098335
Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child.
8/29
8. Started Early, Took My Dog
Kate Atkinson, Reagan Arthur Books, $24.99, 9780316066730
The brilliant new novel featuring Jackson Brodie by the author of When Will There Be Good News?
10/2
9. The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $29.95, 9780756404734
The mesmerizing sequel to Rothfuss' debut fantasy, The Name of the Wind.
4/4
10. 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.
5/44
11. 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.
9/111
12. 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.
6/7
13. Swamplandia!
Karen Russell, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307263995
Russell's beautiful and inventive debut novel is a February Indie Next List Great Read.
7/8
14. Minding Frankie
Maeve Binchy, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307273567
Binchy is back with a tale about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community.
12/4
15. When the Killing's Done
T.C. Boyle, Viking, $26.95, 9780670022328
The new novel by the author of The Women is a March Indie Next Great Read.
13/5
ON THE RISE
17. Drawing Conclusions
Donna Leon, Atlantic Monthly, $24, 9780802119797
Leon's latest Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery is an April Indie Next List Great Read.


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