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Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for May 19, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending May 15, 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. |
1/6 |
| 2. | A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477 Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback. |
3/8 |
| 3. | Water for Elephants Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616200701 An indie fave about a traveling circus is now a major motion picture. |
2/120 |
| 4. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. |
4/68 |
| 5. | Room- Debut Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328 Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child. |
/1 |
| 6. | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223 Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired). |
5/24 |
| 7. | 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. |
10/19 |
| 8. | The Postmistress Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691 Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII. |
6/15 |
| 9. | Little Bee Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648 Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England. |
8/65 |
| 10. | Our Kind of Traitor John le Carre, Penguin, $15, 9780143119722 A remarkable novel of intrigue by the bestselling author of The Constant Gardener. |
9/3 |
| 11. | Super Sad True Love Story- Debut Gary Shteyngart, Random House, $15, 9780812977868 The new satiric novel by the author of Absurdistan. |
/1 |
| 12. | 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. |
7/101 |
| 13. | Matterhorn - Debut Karl Marlantes, Grove Press, $15.95, 9780802145314 Marlantes' epic novel of the Vietnam War is now available in paperback. |
/1 |
| 14. | Island Beneath the Sea Isabel Allende, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780061988257 An entrancing historical novel by the bestselling author of Ines of My Soul. |
13/2 |
| 15. | Imperfect Birds Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $15, 9781594485046 A powerful and redemptive novel about love and family, from the bestselling author of Grace (Eventually). |
11/6 |