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Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for July 28, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending July 24, 2011
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| Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | The Help Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132 Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s. |
1/16 |
| 2. | Room Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328 Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child. |
4/11 |
| 3. | A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477 Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback. |
2/18 |
| 4. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. |
3/78 |
| 5. | Sarah's Key Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $13.99, 9781250004345 This mesmerizing story of a tragic past, and a present torn apart, is now a major motion picture. |
/101 |
| 6. | Faithful Place Tana French, Penguin, $16, 9780143119494 An intriguing Dublin murder squad novel by the bestselling author of The Likeness. |
5/4 |
| 7. | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223 Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired). |
6/34 |
| 8. | Water for Elephants Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616200701 Indies are still handselling this rich, romantic story set in a long-ago traveling circus. |
7/130 |
| 9. | The Postmistress Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691 Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII. |
9/25 |
| 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. |
8/111 |
| 11. | One Day David Nicholls, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307946713 A moving love story by the author of The Understudy. |
11/4 |
| 12. | 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. |
13/29 |
| 13. | Little Bee Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648 Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England. |
14/75 |
| 14. | A Dog's Purpose W. Bruce Cameron, Forge, $12.99, 9780765330345 Cameron's wonderful novel is a dog's-eye look at human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend. |
12/7 |
| 15. | The Cookbook Collector- Debut Allegra Goodman, Dial, $15, 9780385340861 A delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and holding on to what is real in a virtual world. |
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