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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for September 6, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending September 2, 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. |
1/13 |
| 2. | The Beautiful Mystery- Debut Louise Penny, Minotaur, $25.99, 9780312655464 Penny's new intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache mystery is a September 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
| 3. | 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. |
3/50 |
| 4. | 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. |
5/6 |
| 5. | 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. |
7/4 |
| 6. | 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. |
6/4 |
| 7. | 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. |
8/11 |
| 8. | 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. |
11/8 |
| 9. | Where'd You Go, Bernadette 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. |
2/3 |
| 10. | 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. |
4/12 |
| 11. | The Bartender's Tale Ivan Doig, Riverhead, $27.95, 9781594487354 Doig's latest novel about a one-of-a-kind father and his precocious son is a September 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
13/2 |
| 12. | 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. |
12/5 |
| 13. | The Orchardist- Debut Amanda Coplin, Harper, $26.99, 9780062188502 Coplin's touching debut novel about a reclusive man who opens his heart and lets the world in is a September 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
| 14. | 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. |
15/14 |
| 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. |
9/15 |