National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for May 23, 2018
Based on sales for the week ending May 20, 2018
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Warlight
Michael Ondaatje, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525521198
Ondaatje's masterful new novel tells a dramatic story set in London in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of mysterious characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement with one another. A May 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 1/2
2. Circe
Madeline Miller, Little Brown, $27.00, 9780316556347
Miller's masterful follow-up to The Song of Achilles is an April 2018 Indie Next List Great read.		 2/6
3. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin Press, $27.00, 9780735224292
The riveting new novel by the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You is a September 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 3/36
4. The Fallen
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $29.00, 9781538761397
Amos Decker returns in bestselling author David Baldacci's latest Memory Man thriller.		 8/5
5. The Power
Naomi Alderman, Little Brown, $26.00, 9780316547611
Alderman's novel is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality, and exposing our own world in bold and surprising ways.		 4/20
6. 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.		 7/89
7. The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $27.00, 9781476756554
The compelling new novel by the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers is a May 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 14/3
8. Love and Ruin
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $28.00, 9781101967386
McLain's evocative new novel about Ernest Hemingway's passionate and stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn is a May 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 6/3
9. Adjustment Day
Chuck Palahniuk, Norton, $26.95, 9780393652598
In his first novel in four years, Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society.		 5/3
10. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $27.95, 9780393635522
National Book Award-winner Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. An April 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 12/6
11. The Female Persuasion
Meg Wolitzer, Riverhead, $28.00, 9781594488405
Wolitzer's electric new novel about power and influence, ego and loyalty, womanhood and ambition is an April 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 9/7
12. Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate, Ballantine, $26.00, 9780425284681
Wingate's novel--based on a notorious adoption scandal-- is a riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale that reminds us that the heart never forgets where we belong.		 11/10
13. The Hellfire Club
Jake Tapper, Little Brown, $27.00, 9780316472319
A debut political thriller by CNN's chief Washington correspondent about a secret society in 1950s D.C. and a young Congressman in its grip.		 10/2
14. The 17th Suspect- Debut
James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, Little Brown , $29.00, 9780316274043
The latest Women's Murder Club thriller by the bestselling authors of 16th Seduction.		 /1
15. The Favorite Sister- Debut
Jessica Knoll, S&S, $26.00, 9781501153198
Knoll's new thriller stars two sisters who join the cast of a reality TV series. One won't make it out alive. So...who did it?		 /1

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