National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for April 7, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending April 3, 2011
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | The Land of Painted Caves- Debut Jean M. Auel, Crown, $30, 9780517580516 The sixth and final installment in Auel's popular Earth's Children series. |
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| 2. | 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. |
1/4 |
| 3. | The Troubled Man- Debut Henning Mankell, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307593498 Mankell's brilliant new Kurt Wallander novel is an April Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
| 4. | 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. |
2/6 |
| 5. | The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780307378392 The new No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novel following The Double Comfort Safari Club. |
3/2 |
| 6. | A Lesson in Secrets Jacqueline Winspear, Harper, $25.99, 9780061727672 Winspear's new Maisie Dobbs novel is an April Indie Next List Great Read. |
4/2 |
| 7. | 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. |
10/45 |
| 8. | Sing You Home Jodi Picoult, Atria, $28, 9781439102725 Picoult's new book is about about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. |
5/5 |
| 9. | 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? |
8/3 |
| 10. | Room Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316098335 Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child. |
7/30 |
| 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. |
11/112 |
| 12. | Live Wire Harlan Coben, Dutton, $27.95, 9780525952060 An explosive new thriller by the bestselling author of Long Lost. |
6/2 |
| 13. | The Pale King- Debut David Foster Wallace, Little Brown , $27.99, 9780316074230 A deeply compelling and satisfying novel that remained unfinished at the time of Wallace's death in 2008. |
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| 14. | Swamplandia! Karen Russell, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307263995 Russell's beautiful and inventive debut novel is a February Indie Next List Great Read. |
13/9 |
| 15. | The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $29.95, 9780756404734 The mesmerizing sequel to Rothfuss' debut fantasy, The Name of the Wind. |
9/5 |
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| 19. | Lover Unleashed J.R. Ward, NAL, $27.95, 9780451233165 Ward's ninth book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. |
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