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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for August 16, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending August 12, 2012
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
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.
1/10
2. Broken Harbor
Tana French, Viking, $27.95, 9780670023653
French's new novel about the investigation of the murder of a family is an August 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
2/3
3. Shadow of Night
Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95, 9780670023486
The thrilling sequel to A Discovery of Witches is a July 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
5/5
4. 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.
3/8
5. 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.
8/47
6. The Fallen Angel
Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99, 9780062073129
A new Vatican-set thriller featuring Gabriel Allon, from the bestselling author of Portrait of a Spy.
4/4
7. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce, Random House, $25, 9780812993295
Joyce's novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we bury within our hearts is an August Indie Next List Great Read.
7/2
8. 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.
6/9
9. The Sandcastle Girls
Chris Bohjalian, Doubleday, $25.95, 9780385534796
This unforgettable historical love story steeped in Bohjalian's Armenian heritage is an August 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
15/4
10. Mission to Paris
Alan Furst, Random House, $27, 9781400069484
A dazzling new novel of intrigue by the bestselling author of Spies of the Balkans.
10/9
11. The Light Between Oceans- Debut
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $25, 9781451681734
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is an August 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
12. 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.
13/12
13. Where We Belong
Emily Giffin, St. Martin's, $27.99, 9780312554194
Giffin's latest novel is an unforgettable story of two women, the families that make them who they are, and the loyalty that binds them together.
11/3
14. The Dog Stars- Debut
Peter Heller, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307959942
Heller's breathtaking novel about what it means to be human is an August Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
15. 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.
/12


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