National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for April 25, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending April 21, 2013
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Life After Life
Kate Atkinson, Reagan Arthur Books, $27.99, 9780316176484
Atkinson's utterly original novel about a woman who lives and dies over and over again is an April 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.		 1/3
2. The Burgess Boys
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $26, 9781400067688
The remarkable new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge is an April 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.		 2/4
3. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25, 9780307588364
Flynn's thriller about a marriage gone terribly wrong is a June 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.		 3/45
4. Z
Therese Anne Fowler, St. Martin's, $25.99, 9781250028655
Fowler's novel is a compelling look at the life and times of Zelda Fitzgerald, and a May 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/4
5. All That Is
James Salter, Knopf, $26.95, 9781400043132
Salter's masterful new novel is a sweeping, seductive, and deeply moving story set in the years after World War II.		 8/3
6. The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer, Riverhead, $27.95, 9781594488399
Wolitzer's dazzling new novel features complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City.		 7/2
7. The Dinner
Herman Koch, Hogarth, $24, 9780770437855
Koch's novel revealing the dark side of genteel society is a February 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.		 10/10
8. Tenth of December
George Saunders, Random House, $26, 9780812993806
Saunders' unforgettable new collection of stories is a January 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.		 9/15
9. Manuscript Found in Accra
Paulo Coelho, Knopf, $22, 9780385349833
In his new novel, Coelho shows that who we are, what we fear, and what we hope for come from the knowledge and belief that can be found within us, and not from the adversity that surrounds us.		 11/3
10. Leaving Everything Most Loved
Jacqueline Winspear, Harper, $26.99, 9780062049605
Winspear's latest Maisie Dobbs novel is an April 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.		 6/4
11. The Golden Egg
Donna Leon, Atlantic Monthly Press, $26, 9780802121011
A new novel featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti by the bestselling author of Beastly Things.		 5/4
12. The Flamethrowers- Debut
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $26.99, 9781439142004
Kushner's riveting novel about a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970s.		 /1
13. 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 and the winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Fiction.		 /27
14. Six Years
Harlan Coben, Dutton, $27.95, 9780525953487
In his latest mystery, Coben explores the power of past love and the secrets and lies that such love can hide.		 12/5
15. Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $28.99, 9780062124265
Kingsolver's powerful new novel about the complexities of modern life in rural Appalachia is a November 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.		 15/23
ON THE RISE
18. A Man Without Breath
Philip Kerr, A Marian Wood Book/Putnam, $26.95, 9780399160790
A powerful new thriller featuring Bernie Gunther by the bestselling author of Prague Fatale.		  

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