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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for December 22, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending December 18, 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.
2/6
2. Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307959850
James draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.
1/2
3. 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.
6/15
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.
3/9
5. 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.
5/8
6. 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.
4/10
7. The Litigators
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535137
Grisham's latest is an entertaining novel filled with courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense.
7/8
8. 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.
8/14
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.
14/28
10. 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.
10/9
11. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309
McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.
13/43
12. The Drop
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316069410
Connelly's masterful new Harry Bosch thriller is a December Indie Next List Great Read.
9/3
13. The Leopard- Debut
Jo Nesbø, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307595874
Inspector Harry Hole returns to search for a psychopath in Nesbø's electrifying new novel.
/1
14. V Is for Vengeance
Sue Grafton, Marian Wood Books/Putnam, $27.95, 9780399157868
A new Kinsey Millhone mystery by the bestselling author of U Is for Undertow.
11/5
15. 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.
15/6
ON THE RISE
19. Locked On
Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney, Putnam, $28.95, 9780399157318
The covert team known as the Campus faces its greatest challenge ever in Clancy's latest thriller.
 


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