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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for May 3, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending April 29, 2012
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | The Wind Through the Keyhole- Debut Stephen King, Scribner, $27, 9781451658903 King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of his Dark Tower fantasy saga. |
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| 2. | 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. |
1/3 |
| 3. | 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. |
2/4 |
| 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. |
5/4 |
| 5. | The Innocent David Baldacci, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446572996 A riveting new thriller by the bestselling author of Absolute Power. |
3/2 |
| 6. | 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. |
4/4 |
| 7. | 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. |
6/28 |
| 8. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309 McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
7/62 |
| 9. | 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. |
12/3 |
| 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. |
10/4 |
| 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. |
11/32 |
| 12. | Beastly Things Donna Leon, Atlantic Monthly, $25, 9780802120236 Leon's new Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
9/4 |
| 13. | 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. |
8/5 |
| 14. | 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. |
/27 |
| 15. | 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. |
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