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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for October 18, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending October 14, 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. |
1/3 |
| 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. |
2/19 |
| 3. | 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. |
5/5 |
| 4. | 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. |
3/4 |
| 5. | 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. |
4/5 |
| 6. | Live By Night 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. |
7/2 |
| 7. | The Round House 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. |
10/2 |
| 8. | Phantom Jo Nesbø, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307960474 Nesbø's excellent new thriller featuring Harry Hole is an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
6/2 |
| 9. | In Sunlight and in Shadow Mark Helprin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780547819235 Helprin's enchanting and sweeping new novel is an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
9/2 |
| 10. | 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. |
/4 |
| 11. | A Wanted Man Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780385344333 A new pulse-pounding Jack Reacher novel by the bestselling author of Worth Dying For. |
8/5 |
| 12. | 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. |
11/6 |
| 13. | Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore- Debut Robin Sloan, FSG, $25, 9780374214913 Sloan's dazzling literary adventure, set mostly in a small San Francisco bookstore, 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. |
/9 |
| 15. | Blasphemy-Debut Sherman Alexie, Grove Press, $27, 9780802120397 A bold new collection of stories by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of War Dances. |
/1 |
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| 18. | A Thousand Mornings Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $24.95, 9781594204777 In her new collection of poems, Oliver opens our eyes to the mysteries of our daily experience. |
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