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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for November 24, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending November 20, 2011
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. 11/22/63
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
2. V Is for Vengeance- Debut
Sue Grafton, Marian Wood Books/Putnam, $27.95, 9780399157868
A new Kinsey Millhone mystery by the bestselling author of U Is for Undertow.
/1
3. 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.
5/5
4. The Litigators
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535137
Grisham's latest is an entertaining novel filled with courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense.
4/4
5. 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.
3/6
6. 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.
2/4
7. 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.
6/10
8. Out of Oz
Gregory Maguire, Morrow, $26.99, 9780060548940
The remarkable conclusion to McGuire's bestselling Wicked Years series.
8/3
9. The Prague Cemetery
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.
9/2
10. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309
McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.
7/39
11. 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.
12/24
12. 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
13. The Cat's Table
Michael Ondaatje, Knopf, $26, 9780307700117
Ondaatje's wonderful new novel about an eleven-year-old boy on board a ship bound for England in the early 1950s is an October Indie Next List Great Read.
/6
14. Kill Alex Cross- Debut
James Patterson, Little Brown, $28.99, 9780316198738
In Patterson's latest thriller, Alex Cross tries to stop the most devastating attack the U.S. has ever experienced.
/1
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.
15/6
ON THE RISE
18. Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward, Bloomsbury , $24, 9781608195220
Ward's novel about familial love and community against all odds is the winner of the 2011 National Book Award for fiction.
 


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