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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for April 19, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending April 15, 2012
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | Calico Joe- Debut John Grisham, Doubleday, $24.95, 9780385536073 A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball. |
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| 2. | Sacré Bleu Christopher Moore, Morrow, $26.99, 9780061779749 Moore's delectable confection of wit, intrigue, passion, and art history is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
1/2 |
| 3. | The Beginner's Goodbye Anne Tyler, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307957276 Tyler's haunting and deeply moving new novel about a man grieving the death of his wife is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
2/2 |
| 4. | The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780307378408 McCall Smith's 13th installment in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. |
3/2 |
| 5. | Elegy for Eddie Jacqueline Winspear, Harper, $25.99, 9780062049575 Winspear's powerful new Maisie Dobbs mystery is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
4/3 |
| 6. | 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. |
6/26 |
| 7. | Beastly Things Donna Leon, Atlantic Monthly, $25, 9780802120236 Leon's new Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
9/2 |
| 8. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309 McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
5/60 |
| 9. | 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. |
7/30 |
| 10. | The Lifeboat- Debut Charlotte Rogan, Reagan Arthur Books, $24.99, 9780316185905 Rogan's novel of hard choices and survival is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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| 11. | The Shoemaker's Wife Adriana Trigiani, Harper, $26.99, 9780061257094 A historical novel of love, family, risk, and destiny by the bestselling author of Lucia, Lucia. |
8/2 |
| 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. |
10/30 |
| 13. | 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. |
12/19 |
| 14. | Carry the One Carol Anshaw, S&S, $25, 9781451636888 Anshaw's novel about a tragic car accident and the lives of those involved is a March 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
14/4 |
| 15. | 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. |
/5 |
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| 17. | The Cove Ron Rash, Ecco Press, $26.99, 9780061804199 Rash's lyrical, heart-rending novel of a doomed love affair caught in the turmoil of a nation at war is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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