National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for March 22, 2017
Based on sales for the week ending March 19, 2017
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman, Norton, $25.95, 9780393609097
Gaiman fashions primeval Norse stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants.		 1/6
2. Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, Random House, $28.00, 9780812995343
The brilliant first novel by the author of Tenth of December is a February 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 2/5
3. Exit West
Mohsin Hamid, Riverhead, $26.00, 9780735212176
Hamid's novel is an astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for March 2017.		 4/2
4. 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.		 3/33
5. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Viking, $27.00, 9780670026197
Towles' transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel is a September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 5/28
6. In This Grave Hour- Debut
Jacqueline Winspear, Harper, $27.99, 9780062436603
As Britain declares war with Germany in September 1939, Maisie Dobbs is out to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some 23 years earlier during the Great War.		 /1
7. The Whistler
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385541190
Grisham's electrifying new novel is a high-stakes thrill ride through the darkest corners of the Sunshine State.		 7/21
8. Celine
Peter Heller, Knopf, $25.95, 9780451493897
Heller's luminous and masterful novel of suspense is a March 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 9/2
9. A Piece of the World
Christina Baker Kline, Morrow, $27.99, 9780062356260
Kline's evocative novel--inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World--is a March 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 6/4
10. The Refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $25.00, 9780802126399
This collection of perfectly formed stories exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family is a February 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 12/5
11. Commonwealth
Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99, 9780062491794
Patchett's beautifully written new novel tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for September 2016.		 8/27
12. 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.		 10/148
13. The Idiot- Debut
Elif Batuman, Penguin Press, $27.00, 9781594205613
With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. An April 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
14. Difficult Women
Roxane Gay, Grove Press, $25.00, 9780802125392
A collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection.		 11/11
15. Small Great Things
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $28.99, 9780345544957
A woman is caught in a gripping moral dilemma that resonates far beyond her place in time and history. An October 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 15/22
ON THE RISE
18. New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson, Orbit, $28.00, 9780316262347
Robinson presents a bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century.		  

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