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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for July 28, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending July 24, 2011
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | A Dance With Dragons George R.R. Martin, Bantam , $35, 9780553801477 The highly anticipated fifth book of Martin's epic fantasy, A Song of Ice and Fire. |
1/2 |
| 2. | State of Wonder Ann Patchett, Harper, $26.99, 9780062049803 The provocative new novel, set deep in the Amazon jungle, by the author of Bel Canto is a June Indie Next List Great Read. |
2/7 |
| 3. | 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. |
3/22 |
| 4. | Portrait of a Spy- Debut Daniel Silva, Harper, $26.99, 9780062072184 International anti-terrorism expert Gabriel Allon returns in this new thriller by the author of The Rembrandt Affair. |
/1 |
| 5. | Maine J. Courtney Sullivan, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307595126 By turns wickedly funny and achingly sad, Maine unveils the sibling rivalry, alcoholism, social climbing, and Catholic guilt at the center of one family. |
4/6 |
| 6. | The Last Werewolf Glen Duncan, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307595089 Duncan's original tale of Jake, a werewolf who is the last of his species, is a July Indie Next List Great Read. |
9/2 |
| 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. |
6/61 |
| 8. | 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. |
10/20 |
| 9. | Turn of Mind Alice LaPlante, Atlantic Monthly, $24, 9780802119773 LaPlante's stunning debut novel about the deception and frailty of memory is a July Indie Next List Great Read. |
13/2 |
| 10. | Caleb's Crossing Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $26.95, 9780670021048 The evocative new novel by the author of People of the Book is a May Indie Next List Great Read. |
8/12 |
| 11. | Smokin' Seventeen Janet Evanovich, Bantam, $28, 9780345527684 New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is on a cold-blooded killer's list in Evanovich's latest comic thriller. |
7/5 |
| 12. | Before I Go to Sleep S.J. Watson, Harper, $25.99, 9780062060556 Watson's enthralling novel about a woman whose memories are all forgotten every time she falls asleep is a July Indie Next List Great Read. |
5/2 |
| 13. | Burnt Mountain- Debut Anne Rivers Siddons, Grand Central, $25.99, 9780446527897 A dramatic tale of a well-born Southern woman whose life is forever changed by the betrayal of her mother and by the man she loves. |
/1 |
| 14. | Now You See Her James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316036214 A successful New York lawyer returns to Florida and confronts a murderous evil she fled many years ago. |
14/4 |
| 15. | Then Came You Jennifer Weiner, Atria, $26.99, 9781451617726 A timely tale that interweaves themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and donorship, the rights of a parent, and the measure of motherhood. |
11/2 |
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| 21. | Conquistadora Esmeralda Santiago, Knopf, $27.50, 9780307268327 An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the author of the bestselling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican. |
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