National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for December 5, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending December 1, 2013
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, Little Brown, $30, 9780316055437
A new novel of shocking narrative energy and power, plumbing the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art, by the bestselling author of The Secret History.		 1/6
2. Dog Songs
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594204784
Oliver's new collection of poems paints a portrait of her relationships with the companions that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work.		 4/8
3. Aimless Love
Billy Collins, Random House, $26, 9780679644057
From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States comes his first compilation of new and selected poems in 12 years.		 5/6
4. Sycamore Row
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385537131
In his latest bestselling thriller, Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters of his first novel, A Time to Kill.		 3/6
5. The Valley of Amazement
Amy Tan, Ecco, $29.99, 9780062107312
Tan's evocative novel of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity is a November 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.		 2/4
6. The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton, Little Brown, $27, 9780316074315
Catton's breathtaking feat of storytelling in which everything is connected but nothing is as it seems is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize.		 6/7
7. The Circle
Dave Eggers, Knopf, $27.95, 9780385351393
An exhilarating new novel by the bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist A Hologram for the King.		 13/8
8. S.
J.J. Abrams, Doug Dorst, Mulholland, $35, 9780316201643
Abrams and Dorst's love letter to the written word is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don't understand.		 12/5
9. The First Phone Call From Heaven
Mitch Albom, Harper, $24.99, 9780062294371
Albom's moving new novel about a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife.		 7/3
10. 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.		 14/10
11. The Signature of All Things
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.		 9/9
12. We Are Water
Wally Lamb, Harper, $29.99, 9780061941023
Lamb's new novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy is a November 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.		 11/6
13. 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.		 15/10
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. Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction.		 /4
15. The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780307378415
Modern ideas get tangled up with traditional ones in the latest installment in the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.		 /4

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