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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for September 5, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending September 1, 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.
1/6
2. How the Light Gets In- Debut
Louise Penny, Minotaur , $25.99, 9780312655471
A masterful new Chief Inspector Gamache novel by the bestselling author of The Beautiful Mystery.
/1
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.
3/15
4. 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.
2/11
5. Night Film
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.
4/2
6. 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.
7/64
7. 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.
5/16
8. The Bone Season
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.
6/2
9. Bad Monkey
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307272591
A wildly entertaining new, satirical novel by the bestselling author of Lucky You.
8/12
10. 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.
9/13
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.
11/7
12. 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.
10/7
13. The Husband's Secret- Debut
Liane Moriarty, Amy Einhorn Books, $25.95, 9780399159343
A highly entertaining new novel by the bestselling author of What Alice Forgot.
/1
14. The Good Lord Bird
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 must pass as a girl to survive.
12/2
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.
/67
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17. Claire of the Sea Light
Edwidge Danticat, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307271792
Danticat's stunning new novel brings readers deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town where a little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, has gone missing.
 

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