National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for October 8, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending October 4, 2015
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27.00, 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.		 1/68
2. The Girl in the Spider's Web
David Lagercrantz, Knopf, $27.95, 9780385354288
Acclaimed Swedish journalist and author Lagercrantz continues Stieg Larsson's Millennium series as Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return in this adrenaline-charged thriller.		 2/5
3. Purity
Jonathan Franzen, FSG, $28.00, 9780374239213
A grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, by the bestselling author of The Corrections and Freedom.		 4/5
4. Make Me
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28.99, 9780804178778
The 20th Jack Reacher novel by the bestselling author of Personal.		 6/4
5. Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee, Harper, $27.99, 9780062409850
Lee's landmark new novel, which is set two decades after To Kill a Mockingbird, is actually the first draft of the story she reworked to create her Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece.		 3/12
6. Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff, Riverhead, $27.95, 9781594634475
Groff's exhilarating new novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception is an October 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 7/3
7. 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.		 5/32
8. After You- Debut
Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books, $26.95, 9780525426592
After You is quintessential Jojo Moyes--a novel that will make you laugh, cry, and rejoice at being back in the world she creates.		 /1
9. The Heart Goes Last- Debut
Margaret Atwood, Nan A. Talese, $26.95, 9780385540353
A brilliant new novel by the bestselling author of The Blind Assassin.		 /1
10. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Salman Rushdie, Random House, $28.00, 9780812998917
A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, by the author of The Satanic Verses.		 8/4
11. X
Sue Grafton, Marian Wood Books/Putnam, $28.95, 9780399163845
Kinsey Millhone must prove her case against a remorseless serial killer before she becomes his next victim.		 9/6
12. Circling the Sun
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $28.00, 9780345534187
The engrossing new novel by the bestselling author of The Paris Wife is an August 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 13/10
13. The Murder House- Debut
James Patterson, David Ellis, Little Brown, $28.00, 9780316410984
It has an ocean-front view, a private beach, and a deadly secret that won't stay buried.		 /1
14. 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.		 11/35
15. Did You Ever Have a Family
Bill Clegg, Gallery/Scout Press, $26.00, 9781476798172
Clegg's magnificently powerful story about a circle of people who find solace in the least likely of places is a September 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 10/4
ON THE RISE
16. The Aeronaut's Windlass
Jim Butcher, Roc, $27.95, 9780451466808
The thrilling first installment in Butcher's new Cinder Spires series.		  

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