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Bestseller List for December 12, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending December 8, 2013
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Hardcover Fiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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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. |
1/7 |
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. |
2/9 |
3. |
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. |
4/7 |
4. |
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. |
5/5 |
5. |
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. |
3/7 |
6. |
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. |
9/4 |
7. |
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. |
8/6 |
8. |
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. |
6/8 |
9. |
The Gods of Guilt- Debut Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $28, 9780316069519 Mickey Haller returns in the new Lincoln Lawyer novel by the bestselling author of The Fifth Witness. |
/1 |
10. |
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. |
7/9 |
11. |
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. |
14/5 |
12. |
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. |
10/11 |
13. |
Command Authority- Debut Tom Clancy, Putnam Adult, $29.95, 9780399160479 There's a new strong man in Russia whose rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden for decades. The solution to that mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan. |
/1 |
14. |
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. |
11/10 |
15. |
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. |
13/11 |
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