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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for April 26, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending April 22, 2012
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Calico Joe
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.
1/2
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.
2/3
3. The Innocent- Debut
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446572996
A riveting new thriller by the bestselling author of Absolute Power.
/1
4. 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.
3/3
5. 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.
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.
6/27
7. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309
McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.
8/61
8. 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.
5/4
9. Beastly Things
Donna Leon, Atlantic Monthly, $25, 9780802120236
Leon's new Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
7/3
10. 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.
11/3
11. 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.
12/31
12. The Lifeboat
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.
10/2
13. Train Dreams
Denis Johnson, FSG, $18, 9780374281144
A new novella suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West, by the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of Smoke.
/3
14. The Witness- Debut
Nora Roberts, Putnam Adult, $27.95, 9780399159121
A young woman's life is changed forever after she is seduced by a stranger in Roberts' latest thriller.
/1
15. 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.
9/31
ON THE RISE
21. Prague Fatale
Philip Kerr, Marian Wood Books/Putnam, $26.95, 9780399159022
Kerr's latest Bernie Gunther novel is a complex tale of spies, terrorism, and treason.
 


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