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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for August 23, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending August 19, 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. |
1/11 |
| 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. |
2/4 |
| 3. | The Dog Stars 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. |
14/2 |
| 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. |
4/9 |
| 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. |
8/10 |
| 6. | 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. |
3/6 |
| 7. | The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $25, 9781451681734 Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is an August 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
11/2 |
| 8. | 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. |
5/48 |
| 9. | 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. |
7/3 |
| 10. | 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. |
6/5 |
| 11. | Where'd You Go, Bernadette- Debut Maria Semple, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316204279 A compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's roles in an absurd world. |
/1 |
| 12. | The Kingmaker's Daughter- Debut Philippa Gregory, Touchstone, $26.99, 9781451626070 Gregory's latest Cousin's War novel is a story of conspiracy and a fight to the death for love and power at the court of Edward IV of England. |
/1 |
| 13. | Mission to Paris Alan Furst, Random House, $27, 9781400069484 A dazzling new novel of intrigue by the bestselling author of Spies of the Balkans. |
10/10 |
| 14. | In the Shadow of the Banyan- Debut Vaddey Ratner, S&S, $25, 9781451657708 Ratner's brilliantly wrought tale of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia and human resilience is an August 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
| 15. | 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. |
12/13 |