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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for September 20, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending September 16, 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.
1/15
2. Telegraph Avenue- Debut
Michael Chabon, Harper, $27.99, 9780061493348
Chabon's triumphant new novel set in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland is an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
3. A Wanted Man- Debut
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780385344333
A new pulse-pounding Jack Reacher novel by the bestselling author of Worth Dying For.
/1
4. This Is How You Lose Her- Debut
Junot Díaz, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594487361
A new collection of stories by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
/1
5. The Time Keeper
Mitch Albom, Hyperion, $24.99, 9781401322786
Albom's latest is a compelling fable about the first man on Earth to count the hours.
4/2
6. NW
Zadie Smith, Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594203978
Depicting the modern London urban zone, Smith's latest is a quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and vital, like the city itself.
2/2
7. The Beautiful Mystery
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $25.99, 9780312655464
Penny's new intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache mystery is a September 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
3/3
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.
5/52
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.
6/5
10. 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.
8/6
11. The Yellow Birds- Debut
Kevin Powers, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316219365
This powerful novel, written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, is a harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive. A September 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
12. 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.
/3
13. 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.
9/8
14. 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.
/9
15. 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.
12/6


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