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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for March 1, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending February 26, 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. |
1/12 |
| 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. |
2/19 |
| 3. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309 McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
5/53 |
| 4. | 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. |
3/23 |
| 5. | What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank 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. |
6/2 |
| 6. | Kill Shot Vince Flynn, Atria, $27.99, 9781416595205 CIA super agent Mitch Rapp returns in the latest thriller by the author of American Assassin. |
4/3 |
| 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. |
7/20 |
| 8. | The House I Loved- Debut 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. |
/1 |
| 9. | 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. |
/17 |
| 10. | 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. |
9/38 |
| 11. | 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. |
10/16 |
| 12. | 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. |
14/24 |
| 13. | Defending Jacob 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. |
15/2 |
| 14. | The Wolf Gift Anne Rice, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307595119 An intriguing novel about the making of a werewolf, as only Anne Rice could create. |
8/2 |
| 15. | 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. |
/24 |
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| 22. | Watergate Thomas Mallon, Pantheon, $26.95, 9780307378729 Mallon's new novel is a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators. |
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