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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for October 4, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending September 30, 2012
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | The Casual Vacancy- Debut J.K. Rowling, Little Brown, $35, 9780316228534 Rowling's darkly comic and thought provoking first novel for adults. |
/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. |
2/17 |
| 3. | Winter of the World Ken Follett, Dutton, $36, 9780525952923 Follett's epic follow-up to Fall of Giants is the second book of his Century Trilogy. |
1/2 |
| 4. | Telegraph Avenue 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. |
3/3 |
| 5. | This Is How You Lose Her 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. |
5/3 |
| 6. | A Wanted Man Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780385344333 A new pulse-pounding Jack Reacher novel by the bestselling author of Worth Dying For. |
4/3 |
| 7. | 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. |
6/4 |
| 8. | NW: A Novel 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. |
7/4 |
| 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. |
8/7 |
| 10. | 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. |
9/54 |
| 11. | The Yellow Birds 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. |
10/3 |
| 12. | 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. |
12/5 |
| 13. | Sutton- Debut J.R. Moehringer, Hyperion, $27.99, 9781401323141 Pulitzer Prize-winner Moehringer's novel about the life and times of bank robber Willie Sutton is an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
| 14. | 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. |
11/8 |
| 15. | San Miguel T.C. Boyle, Viking, $27.95, 9780670026241 Boyle's haunting historical novel about the lives of three remarkable women on a tiny, windswept island off the coast of Southern California. |
15/2 |