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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for October 11, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending October 7, 2012
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | The Casual Vacancy J.K. Rowling, Little Brown, $35, 9780316228534 Rowling's darkly comic and thought provoking first novel for adults. |
1/2 |
| 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. |
2/18 |
| 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. |
3/3 |
| 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. |
4/4 |
| 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. |
5/4 |
| 6. | Phantom- Debut Jo Nesbø, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307960474 Nesbø's excellent new thriller featuring Harry Hole is an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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| 7. | Live By Night- Debut Dennis Lehane, Morrow, $27.99, 9780060004873 Lehane's latest is at once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, and an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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| 8. | A Wanted Man Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780385344333 A new pulse-pounding Jack Reacher novel by the bestselling author of Worth Dying For. |
6/4 |
| 9. | In Sunlight and in Shadow- Debut Mark Helprin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780547819235 Helprin's enchanting and sweeping new novel is an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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| 10. | The Round House- Debut Louise Erdrich, Harper, $27.99, 9780062065247 The masterful new novel by the author of The Plague of Doves is an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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| 11. | 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. |
7/5 |
| 12. | 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. |
8/5 |
| 13. | 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. |
9/8 |
| 14. | Mad River- Debut John Sandford, Putnam Adult, $27.95, 9780399157707 A thrilling new Virgil Flowers novel by the author of Shock Wave. |
/1 |
| 15. | 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. |
10/55 |
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| 16. | Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories Sherman Alexie, Grove Press, $27, 9780802120397 A bold new collection of stories by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of War Dances. |
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