National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for October 10, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending October 6, 2013
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Doctor Sleep
Stephen King, Scribner, $30, 9781476727653
King's riveting sequel to The Shining is about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very special 12-year-old girl he must save.
1/2
2. The Signature of All Things- Debut
Elizabeth Gilbert, Viking, $28.95, 9780670024858
The highly anticipated new novel by the author of Eat, Pray, Love is an October 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
3. The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307265746
The extraordinary new novel by the author of The Namesake is short-listed for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and is an October Indie Next List Great Read.
2/2
4. The Longest Ride
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $27, 9781455520657
Two couples who have little in common, and who are separated by years and experience, have their lives converge in the latest novel by the bestselling author of The Notebook.
6/3
5. 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.
5/20
6. Bleeding Edge
Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, $28.95, 9781594204234
Pynchon's new novel is an historical romance of New York in the early days of the Internet -- not very distant in calendar years but galactically remote from where we've journeyed since.
3/3
7. Never Go Back
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780385344340
Jack Reacher's past catches up with him in the new thriller by the best selling author of Gone Tomorrow.
7/5
8. W Is for Wasted
Sue Grafton, Putnam, $28.95, 9780399158988
Grafton's latest bestseller is full of betrayals, misunderstandings, and outright murderous fraud. And Kinsey Millhone, through no fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised.
4/4
9. 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.
8/11
10. MaddAddam
Margaret Atwood, Nan A. Talese, $27.95, 9780385528788
The brilliant conclusion to Atwood's trilogy, following Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood.
10/5
11. Someone
Alice McDermott, FSG, $25, 9780374281090
The new novel by the National Book Award-winning McDermott is a fully realized portrait of one woman's life in all its complexity, and a September 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.
9/4
12. The Quest
Nelson DeMille, Center Street, $26, 9781455576425
A search for the Holy Grail is on in DeMille's latest bestselling thriller.
15/3
13. 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.
11/16
14. 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.
12/69
15. Dissident Gardens
Jonathan Lethem, Doubleday, $27.95, 9780385534932
Lethem's latest novel is a family saga about three generations of all-American radicals.
14/4
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16. Spider Woman's Daughter
Anne Hillerman, Harper, $26.99, 9780062270481
With Spider Woman's Daughter, Anne Hillerman continues the Leaphorn and Chee detective series of her late father, Tony Hillerman.
 

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