National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for March 12, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending March 8, 2015
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594633669
Hawkins' debut is a psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. A January 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.
1/8
2. 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.
2/44
3. The Buried Giant- Debut
Kazuo Ishiguro, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307271037
Ishiguro's first novel in a decade tells a luminous story about the act of forgetting and the power of memory. A March 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
4. A Spool of Blue Thread
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $25.95, 9781101874271
Tyler's poignant yet unsentimental novel in praise of family in all its emotional complexity is a February 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.
3/4
5. The Whites
Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt, Holt, $28, 9780805093995
An electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege—by an unsolved murder, by his own dark past, and by a violent stalker seeking revenge.
4/3
6. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $27.99, 9780312577223
Hannah's heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women is a February 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.
6/5
7. Trigger Warning
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062330260
Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with a new collection of short fiction.
5/5
8. The Fifth Gospel- Debut
Ian Caldwell, S&S, $25.99, 9781451694147
Caldwell's masterful new thriller confirms his place among the most ambitious, popular storytellers working today. A March 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
9. Funny Girl
Nick Hornby, Riverhead, $27.95, 9781594205415
Hornby's new novel is a lively account of the intrepid Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingenue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters.
7/5
10. Leaving Berlin- Debut
Joseph Kanon, Atria, $27, 9781476704647
Kanon's sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin is a March 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
11. The Assassin- Debut
Clive Cussler, Justin Scott, Putnam, $28.95, 9780399171758
An explosive new thriller in Cussler's Isaac Bell series.
/1
12. 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.
13/17
13. The First Bad Man
Miranda July, Scribner, $25, 9781439172568
The unforgettable debut novel by the bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You is a January 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.
8/8
14. 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.
15/71
15. 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.
11/20
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19. The Sellout
Paul Beatty, FSG, $26, 9780374260507
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court.
 

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