National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for October 30, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending October 26, 2014
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Gray Mountain- Debut
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385537148
When a Wall Street lawyer takes on a case in a small Virgina town, she finds herself engulfed in litigation that turns deadly.		 /1
2. Leaving Time
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $28, 9780345544926
Picoult's deeply moving, gripping, and intelligent new novel is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for October 2014.		 2/2
3. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27, 9781476746586
Doerr's beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France during World War II is a May 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 3/25
4. Lila
Marilynne Robinson, FSG, $26, 9780374187613
The remarkable new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead is an October 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 1/3
5. Edge of Eternity
Ken Follett, Dutton, $36, 9780525953098
The third volume in Follett's epic Century Trilogy, following Winter of the World.		 4/6
6. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $25.95, 9780385352109
The eagerly awaited new novel by the internationally bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.		 5/11
7. Blue Horses
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $24.95, 9781594204791
In Oliver's stunning collection of new poems, she describes with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature.		 9/2
8. Some Luck
Jane Smiley, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307700315
Smiley's engrossing new novel about a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America has been longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award and is an October 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 11/3
9. The Children Act
Ian McEwan, Nan A. Talese, $25, 9780385539708
A leading High Court judge must decide the case of a 17-year-old boy who is refusing for religious reasons the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents echo his wishes.		 13/7
10. The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, Little Brown, $30, 9780316055437
Tartt's novel--plumbing the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art--is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.		 8/52
11. The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan, Knopf, $26.95, 9780385352857
Flanagan's novel tells a savagely beautiful story of love, death, and family and explores the many forms of good and evil. Winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.		 7/2
12. Beautiful You- Debut
Chuck Palahniuk, Doubleday, $25.95, 9780385538039
By the bestselling author of Fight Club, a novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of a product that gives new meaning to the term "self-help."		 /1
13. Nora Webster
Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $27, 9781439138335
Tóibín's masterful new novel, set in Ireland, about a fiercely compelling young widow and mother of four is an October 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 12/3
14. The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell, Random House, $30, 9781400065677
The astonishing new novel by the author of Cloud Atlas and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for September 2014.		 6/8
15. Adultery
Paulo Coelho, Knopf, $24.95, 9781101874080
A woman embarks on an adventure as unexpected as it is daring in the new novel by the bestselling author of The Alchemist.		 /9

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