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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for July 12, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending July 8, 2012
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | Gone Girl Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25, 9780307588364 Flynn's new thriller about a marriage gone terribly wrong is a June 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
1/5 |
| 2. | Canada Richard Ford, Ecco, $27.99, 9780061692048 Ford's masterful new novel about the mysterious and consoling bonds of family is a June 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
2/7 |
| 3. | Mission to Paris Alan Furst, Random House, $27, 9781400069484 A dazzling new novel of intrigue by the bestselling author of Spies of the Balkans. |
3/4 |
| 4. | The Age of Miracles Karen Thompson Walker, Random House, $26, 9780812992977 This luminous and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world is a July Indie Next List Great Read. |
4/2 |
| 5. | A Hologram for the King Dave Eggers, McSweeney's, $25, 9781936365746 Eggers takes readers around the world in this novel about one man's fight to hold himself and his family together in the face of the global economic crisis. |
5/3 |
| 6. | Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter, Harper, $25.99, 9780061928123 Walter's dazzling yet deeply human new novel, spanning 50 years and nearly as many lives, is a July 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
7/4 |
| 7. | Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel, Holt, $28, 9780805090031 The sequel to Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize-winner, Wolf Hall, delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. |
6/9 |
| 8. | In One Person John Irving, S&S, $28, 9781451664126 Irving's intimate and unforgettable new novel about the life of a bisexual man is a May 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
8/9 |
| 9. | 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. |
9/13 |
| 10. | Gold- Debut Chris Cleave, S&S, $27, 9781451672725 Cleave's poignant new novel about two women preparing to compete in the Olympics is a July 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
| 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. |
10/42 |
| 12. | 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. |
11/14 |
| 13. | Seating Arrangements Maggie Shipstead, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307599469 Shipstead's stunning debut novel is an irresistible social satire, a meditation on the persistence of hope, and a June 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
15/2 |
| 14. | Istanbul Passage Joseph Kanon, Atria, $26, 9781439156414 Kanon's haunting novel about a man swept up in the dawn of the Cold War is a June 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
12/6 |
| 15. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309 McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
14/72 |