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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for August 24, 2016
Based on sales for the week ending August 21, 2016
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| Hardcover Fiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. |
The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385542364 Whitehead's magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South is a September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read. |
1/3 |
| 2. |
The Girls Emma Cline, Random House, $27.00, 9780812998603 Cline's remarkable debut novel is gorgeously written and spellbinding, with razor-sharp precision and startling psychological insight. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for June 2016. |
2/10 |
| 3. |
Truly Madly Guilty Liane Moriarty, Flatiron, $26.99, 9781250069795 In her new novel Moriarty shows how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late. |
3/4 |
| 4. |
The Woman in Cabin 10 Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $26.00, 9781501132933 The suspenseful and haunting new novel by the bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood is an August 2016 Indie Next List Great Read. |
4/5 |
| 5. |
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. |
5/118 |
| 6. |
The Black Widow Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99, 9780062320223 Gabriel Allon grapples with an ISIS mastermind in the new thriller by the bestselling author of The English Spy. |
6/6 |
| 7. |
Heroes of the Frontier Dave Eggers, Knopf, $28.95, 9780451493804 The new novel by the bestselling author of The Circle is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure. |
7/4 |
| 8. |
Before the Fall Noah Hawley, Grand Central, $26.00, 9781455561780 Hawley's stunning novel, raising questions of fate, human nature, and the inextricable ties that bind us together, is a June 2016 Indie Next List Great Read. |
9/12 |
| 9. |
Dark Matter Blake Crouch, Crown, $26.99, 9781101904220 Crouch's brilliantly plotted and relentlessly surprising thriller is an August 2016 Indie Next List Great Read. |
8/3 |
| 10. |
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. |
10/75 |
| 11. |
Homegoing (An Indies Introduce Title) Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $26.95, 9781101947135 Gyasi's astonishing debut novel is an Indies Introduce title and a June 2016 Indie Next List Great Read. |
13/11 |
| 12. |
The Nest Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, Ecco, $26.99, 9780062414212 Sweeney's warm, funny, and perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of their shared inheritance is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for April 2016. |
11/22 |
| 13. |
Three Sisters, Three Queens Philippa Gregory, Touchstone, $27.99, 9781476758572 Gregory's gripping new Tudor novel vividly reveals the pivotal roles three queens played in Henry VIII's kingdom. |
14/2 |
| 14. |
Another Brooklyn Jacqueline Woodson, Amistad, $22.99, 9780062359988 Woodson's exquisitely rendered novel that illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for August 2016. |
15/2 |
| 15. |
Sweetbitter Stephanie Danler, Knopf, $25.00, 9781101875940 A lush, raw, and thrilling novel about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young woman, set in the wild and seductive world of a famous New York City restaurant. |
12/13 |
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| 19. |
The Last Days of Night Graham Moore, Random House, $28.00, 9780812988901 Moore's thrilling novel, based on actual events, about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America. |
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