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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for January 12, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending January 8, 2012
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
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.
1/5
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.
2/12
3. 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.
9/73
4. 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.
6/31
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.
3/11
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.
4/13
7. 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.
5/9
8. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309
McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.
8/46
9. 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.
7/17
10. 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.
15/2
11. The Litigators
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535137
Grisham's latest is an entertaining novel filled with courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense.
13/11
12. 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.
10/20
13. 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.
14/12
14. The Leopard
Jo Nesbo, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307595874
Inspector Harry Hole returns to search for a psychopath in Nesbo's electrifying new novel.
12/3
15. The Drop
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316069410
Connelly's masterful new Harry Bosch thriller is a December Indie Next List Great Read.
11/5
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19. Breakdown
Sara Paretsky, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399157837
V.I. Warshawski investigates the murder of a man found stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying.
 


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