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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
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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