- MEMBERSHIP
- Join
- Renew
- About Membership
- Membership Types
- Benefits Chart
- Dues Information
- Opening a Bookstore
- Member Directory
- MEMBERSHIP
- for BOOKSELLERS
- for PUBLISHERS
- EVENTS
- ADVOCACY
-
NEWS
BTW News for evolve nav
- ABOUT
National Indie Bestsellers
Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for February 17, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending February 13, 2011
For an independent bookstore store near you, call 1-888-266-5736,
or visit IndieBound.org.
| Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
|
| 1. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. |
1/55 |
| 2. | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223 Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired). |
2/11 |
| 3. | The Imperfectionists Tom Rachman, Dial, $15, 9780385343671 Rachman's wry debut novel follows the lives of the staff of an international English-language newspaper in Rome. |
3/6 |
| 4. | The Postmistress Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691 Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII. |
6/2 |
| 5. | Little Bee Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648 Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England. |
4/52 |
| 6. | True Grit Charles Portis, Overlook, $14.95, 9781590204597 A new edition of Portis' classic novel and the basis for the new film directed by the Coen brothers. |
5/6 |
| 7. | Tinkers Paul Harding, Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95, 9781934137123 Harding's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel looks at love, loss, and the beauty of nature. |
7/40 |
| 8. | Water for Elephants Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781565125605 An indie fave about a traveling circus comes to paperback. |
10/107 |
| 9. | Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9781416586296 Walls follows up her bestselling memoir, The Glass Castle, with this true-life novel about her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith. |
11/23 |
| 10. | The Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein, Harper, $14.99, 9780061537967 A look at life through the eyes of Enzo, a mixed-breed pooch. |
8/88 |
| 11. | The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Heidi W. Durrow, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781616200152 Durrow's searing debut is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction addressing issues of social justice. |
12/6 |
| 12. | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307454546 The first installment in the bestselling thriller trilogy by the late Swedish journalist Larsson. |
9/86 |
| 13. | The Three Weissmanns of Westport- Debut Cathleen Schine, Picador, $14, 9780312680527 Schine's wonderful follow-up to her novel The New Yorkers. |
/1 |
| 14. | The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780060852580 Kingsolver's November 2009 Indie Next List Great Read is now available in paperback. |
/29 |
| 15. | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford, Ballantine, $15, 9780345505347 An evocative novel of Japanese-Americans in Seattle during World War II. |
14/70 |
| ON THE RISE | ||
| 18. | The Invisible Bridge Julie Orringer, Vintage, $15.95, 9781400034376 The eagerly awaited debut novel by the author of the short story collection How to Breathe Under Water. |
|