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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for January 5, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending January 1, 2012
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | 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. |
2/4 |
| 2. | 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. |
7/11 |
| 3. | 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. |
4/10 |
| 4. | 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. |
5/12 |
| 5. | 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. |
1/8 |
| 6. | 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. |
9/30 |
| 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. |
8/16 |
| 8. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309 McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
10/45 |
| 9. | 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. |
12/72 |
| 10. | 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. |
/19 |
| 11. | The Drop Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316069410 Connelly's masterful new Harry Bosch thriller is a December Indie Next List Great Read. |
/4 |
| 12. | The Leopard Jo Nesbø, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307595874 Inspector Harry Hole returns to search for a psychopath in Nesbø's electrifying new novel. |
/2 |
| 13. | The Litigators John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535137 Grisham's latest is an entertaining novel filled with courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense. |
6/10 |
| 14. | The Cat's Table Michael Ondaatje, Knopf, $26, 9780307700117 Ondaatje's wonderful new novel about an 11-year-old boy on board a ship bound for England in the early 1950s is an October Indie Next List Great Read. |
11/11 |
| 15. | Salvage the Bones- Debut 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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