National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for August 29, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending August 25, 2013
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| Hardcover Fiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. |
The Cuckoo's Calling Robert Galbraith, Mulholland, $26, 9780316206846 A riveting crime fiction novel for adults by J.K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. |
1/5 |
| 2. |
The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $25.99, 9780062255655 Gaiman's stirring, terrifying new novel is a July 2013 Indie Next List Great Read. |
2/10 |
| 3. |
And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $28.95, 9781594631764 The unforgettable new novel by the bestselling author of The Kite Runner is a June 2013 Indie Next List Great Read. |
3/14 |
| 4. |
Night Film- Debut Marisha Pessl, Random House, $28, 9781400067886 The haunting new novel by the bestselling author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a September 2013 Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
| 5. |
Inferno Dan Brown, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385537858 In Brown's latest thriller, Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces, Dante's Inferno. |
4/15 |
| 6. |
The Bone Season- Debut Samantha Shannon, Bloomsbury, $24, 9781620401392 Shannon's extraordinarily imaginative debut novel, set in London in the year 2059, is a September 2013 Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
| 7. |
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. |
5/63 |
| 8. |
Bad Monkey Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307272591 A wildly entertaining new, satirical novel by the bestselling author of Lucky You. |
6/11 |
| 9. |
TransAtlantic Colum McCann, Random House, $27, 9781400069590 The soaring new novel by the National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin is a June 2013 Indie Next List Great Read. |
9/12 |
| 10. |
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish David Rakoff, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385535212 Published posthumously, Rakoff's book is a poignant, beautiful, witty, and wise novel in verse, with a scope that spans the 20th century. |
8/6 |
| 11. |
The English Girl Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99, 9780062073167 A gripping new thriller featuring Gabriel Allon by the bestselling author of The Fallen Angel. |
7/6 |
| 12. |
The Good Lord Bird- Debut James McBride, Riverhead, $27.95, 9781594486340 McBride's rousing novel is the story a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown's anti-slavery crusade and who must pass as a girl to survive. |
/1 |
| 13. |
The Infatuations Javier Marias, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307960726 A murder mystery that also grapples with questions of love and death, and how we are haunted by our losses. |
13/2 |
| 14. |
Light of the World James Lee Burke, S&S, $27.99, 9781476710761 Burke's latest, a harrowing novel examining the nature of evil, pits Dave Robicheaux against the most diabolical villain he has ever faced. |
10/5 |
| 15. |
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. |
12/19 |
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| 17. |
The Daughters of Mars Thomas Keneally, Atria, $28, 9781476734613 An epic, unforgettable novel of two sisters whose lives are transformed by the cataclysm of the First World War, by the author of Schindler's List. |
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