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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for July 19, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending July 15, 2012
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Shadow of Night- Debut
Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95, 9780670023486
The thrilling sequel to A Discovery of Witches is a July 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
2. 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.
1/6
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.
3/5
4. 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.
2/8
5. 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.
6/5
6. 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.
4/3
7. The Prisoner of Heaven- Debut
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Harper, $25.99, 9780062206282
Carlos Ruiz Zafón takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and tells a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, and revenge.
/1
8. 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.
5/4
9. 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.
7/10
10. Gold
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.
10/2
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.
11/43
12. 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.
8/10
13. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309
McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.
15/73
14. 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.
9/14
15. 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.
12/15
ON THE RISE
22. The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
Stephen L. Carter, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307272638
Carter's new novel is a daring re-imagining of one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history.
 


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