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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for November 17, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending November 13, 2011
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. 11/22/63- Debut
Stephen King, Scribner, $35, 9781451627282
King's dramatic new novel about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination.
/1
2. 1Q84
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30.50, 9780307593313
Murakami's stunning new novel is a tremendous feat of imagination, and a November 2011 Indie Next List Great Read.
1/3
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.
3/5
4. The Litigators
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535137
Grisham's latest is an entertaining novel filled with courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense.
2/3
5. 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.
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.
6/9
7. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309
McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.
7/38
8. Out of Oz
Gregory Maguire, Morrow, $26.99, 9780060548940
The remarkable conclusion to McGuire's bestselling Wicked Years series.
5/2
9. The Prague Cemetery- Debut
Umberto Eco, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 9780547577531
Eco's highly anticipated new historical novel about conspiracies and conspiracy theories is a November Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
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.
/10
11. Zero Day
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446573016
Combat veteran and U.S. Army criminal investigator John Puller is on the hunt for justice against an overwhelming force in Baldacci's latest thriller.
8/2
12. 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.
11/23
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.
14/6
14. 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.
10/18
15. 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.
13/5
ON THE RISE
21. The House of Silk
Anthony Horowitz, Mulholland, $27.99, 9780316196994
Horowitz's riveting new Sherlock Holmes novel is the first ever authorized by the Arthur Conan Doyle estate.
 


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