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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for February 23, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending February 19, 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.
1/11
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.
3/18
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 2011 Indie Next List Great Read.
4/22
4. Kill Shot
Vince Flynn, Atria, $27.99, 9781416595205
CIA super agent Mitch Rapp returns in the latest thriller by the author of American Assassin.
2/2
5. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309
McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.
5/52
6. What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories- Debut
Nathan Englander, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307958709
This collection of eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander is an Indie Next List Great Read for February 2012.
/1
7. 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.
13/19
8. The Wolf Gift- Debut
Anne Rice, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307595119
An intriguing novel about the making of a werewolf, as only Anne Rice could create.
/1
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.
7/37
10. 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.
10/15
11. Raylan
Elmore Leonard, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062119469
In his latest masterful novel, Leonard brings back U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the mesmerizing hero of the hit FX program Justified.
6/5
12. The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson, Random House, $26, 9780812992793
Johnson's epic story of a young man's journey through the mysterious dictatorship of North Korea is a January Indie Next List Great Read.
12/6
13. Believing the Lie
Elizabeth George, Dutton, $28.95, 9780525952589
George's masterful new Inspector Lynley mystery is a January Indie Next List Great Read.
8/6
14. 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 2011 Indie Next List Great Read.
15/23
15. Defending Jacob- Debut
William Landay, Delacorte, $26, 9780385344227
Landay's suspenseful novel about guilt, betrayal, and a family in crisis is a February Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
ON THE RISE
18. The House I Loved
Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's, $25.99, 9780312593308
A poignant story of one woman's indelible strength, and an ode to Paris, where houses harbor the joys and sorrows of their inhabitants.
 


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