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National Indie Bestsellers
Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for April 21, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending April 17, 2011
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| Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | The Help Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425232200 Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s. |
1/2 |
| 2. | Water for Elephants Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616200701 An indie fave about a traveling circus is now a major motion picture. |
3/116 |
| 3. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. |
2/64 |
| 4. | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223 Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired). |
4/20 |
| 5. | 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. |
6/15 |
| 6. | The Postmistress Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691 Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII. |
7/11 |
| 7. | A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477 Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback. |
5/4 |
| 8. | Little Bee Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648 Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England. |
9/61 |
| 9. | Imperfect Birds Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $15, 9781594485046 A powerful and redemptive novel about love and family, from the bestselling author of Grace (Eventually). |
12/2 |
| 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. |
10/97 |
| 11. | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell, Random House, $15, 9780812976366 The riveting novel by the author of Cloud Atlas was a July 2010 Indie Next List Great Read in hardcover. |
8/6 |
| 12. | 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. |
15/78 |
| 13. | The Man From Beijing Henning Mankell, Vintage, $15, 9780307472847 An electrifying global thriller by the award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries. |
13/5 |
| 14. | 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. |
/30 |
| 15. | Every Last One Anna Quindlen, Random House, $15, 9780812976885 A breathtaking novel by the bestselling author of One True Thing. |
/2 |
| ON THE RISE | ||
| 20. | Ape House Sara Gruen, Spiegel & Grau, $15, 9780385523226 Gruen's engaging follow-up to Water For Elephants. |
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