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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for November 3, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending October 30, 2011
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. 1Q84- Debut
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30.50, 9780307593313
Murakami's stunning new novel is a tremendous feat of imagination, and a November Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
2. The Litigators- Debut
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535137
Grisham's latest is an entertaining novel filled with courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense.
/1
3. The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides, FSG, $28, 9780374203054
An impressive new novel about the lives of three seniors at Brown University in the early 1980s by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex.
1/3
4. The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes, Knopf, $23.95, 9780307957122
In this new novel by the author of Pulse, a middle-aged man contends with a past he has never much thought about.
2/2
5. The Cat's Table
Michael Ondaatje, Knopf, $26, 9780307700117
Ondaatje's wonderful new novel about an eleven-year-old boy onboard a ship bound for England in the early 1950s is an October Indie Next List Great Read.
4/4
6. The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385534635
Morgenstern's spell-casting debut novel about a mysterious circus and a duel between two young magicians is a September Indie Next List Great Read.
3/7
7. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309
McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.
6/36
8. The Best of Me
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $25.99, 9780446547659
Two former lovers must confront painful memories and discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made.
5/3
9. 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.
9/21
10. The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316126694
Harbach's outstanding debut novel about baseball, ambition, family, friendship, and commitment, is a September Indie Next List Great Read.
7/9
11. Damned
Chuck Palahniuk, Doubleday, $24.95, 9780385533027
The afterlife as only Palahniuk could imagine it--he makes eternal torment simply divine.
10/2
12. The Affair
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780385344326
The suspenseful new Jack Reacher novel by the bestselling author of Worth Dying For.
11/5
13. The Dovekeepers
Alice Hoffman, Scribner, $27.99, 9781451617474
Hoffman's ambitious and mesmerizing new novel, set in ancient Israel, is an October Indie Next List Great Read.
8/4
14. Zone One
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $25.95, 9780385528078
Colson's chilling novel brilliantly deconstructs the zombie myth for the 21st century.
12/2
15. A Dance With Dragons
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $35, 9780553801477
The magnificent fifth book of Martin's epic fantasy, A Song of Ice and Fire.
13/16
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18. The Stranger's Child
Alan Hollinghurst, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307272768
A masterful century-spanning saga about a love triangle, by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Line of Beauty.


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