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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for April 21, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending April 17, 2011
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Pale King
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.
3/3
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.
2/6
3. The Land of Painted Caves
Jean M. Auel, Crown, $30, 9780517580516
The sixth and final installment in Auel's popular Earth's Children series.
1/3
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.
4/8
5. She Walks in Beauty
Caroline Kennedy (Ed.), Hyperion, $24.99, 9781401341459
Caroline Kennedy has marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay tribute to the human experience.
10/2
6. The Fifth Witness
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316069359
Connelly's latest legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller.
5/2
7. Horoscopes for the Dead
Billy Collins, Random House, $24, 9781400064922
A new collection of poems by the former U.S. Poet Laureate and bestselling author of Ballistics.
8/2
8. The Troubled Man
Henning Mankell, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307593498
Mankell's brilliant new Kurt Wallander novel is an April Indie Next List Great Read.
6/3
9. 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.
7/4
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.
12/47
11. A Lesson in Secrets
Jacqueline Winspear, Harper, $25.99, 9780061727672
Winspear's new Maisie Dobbs novel is an April Indie Next List Great Read.
9/4
12. Drawing Conclusions- Debut
Donna Leon, Atlantic Monthly, $24, 9780802119797
Leon's latest Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery is an April Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
13. Room
Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316098335
Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child.
13/32
14. Sing You Home
Jodi Picoult, Atria, $28, 9781439102725
Picoult's new book is about about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood.
15/7
15. The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $29.95, 9780756404734
The mesmerizing sequel to Rothfuss' debut fantasy, The Name of the Wind.
14/7
ON THE RISE
16. Say Her Name
Francisco Goldman, Grove Press, $24, 9780802119810
Goldman's transcendent new novel is an April Indie Next List Great Read.


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