National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for December 18, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending December 14, 2014
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. 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.		 1/32
2. Gray Mountain
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.		 2/8
3. Redeployment
Phil Klay, Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594204999
Klay's stories take readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there and what happened to the soldiers who returned. A March 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 6/7
4. Revival
Stephen King, Scribner, $30, 9781476770383
This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written.		 4/5
5. The Escape
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $28, 9781455521197
U.S. Army special agent John Puller must hunt down the most formidable and brilliant prey he has ever tracked: his own brother.		 3/4
6. 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.		 10/59
7. 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.		 7/10
8. 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.		 9/9
9. The Boston Girl- Debut
Anita Diamant, Scribner, $26, 9781439199350
Diamant's unforgettable new novel about family ties, values, friendship, and feminism seen through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early 20th century is a December 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
10. Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, Knopf, $24.95, 9780385353304
St. John Mandel's novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse is a September 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 13/5
11. Hope to Die
James Patterson, Little Brown, $29, 9780316210966
Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career.		 8/3
12. The Burning Room
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $28, 9780316225939
In Connelly's new bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot... very fast.		 5/6
13. 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.		 14/10
14. 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.		 15/6
15. Let Me Be Frank With You
Richard Ford, Ecco, $27.99, 9780061692062
Pulitzer Prize-winner Ford returns to the territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe.		 11/6
ON THE RISE
18. Moriarty
Anthony Horowitz, Harper, $26.99, 9780062377180
Horowitz's novel about what really happened when Sherlock Holmes and his arch nemesis, Professor Moriarty, tumbled to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls is a December 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		  

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