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Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for August 18, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending August 14, 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. |
1/19 |
| 2. | Room Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328 Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child. |
2/14 |
| 3. | 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. |
5/104 |
| 4. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. |
4/81 |
| 5. | A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477 Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback. |
3/21 |
| 6. | One Day David Nicholls, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307946713 A moving love story by the author of The Understudy. |
7/7 |
| 7. | 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. |
8/114 |
| 8. | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223 Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired). |
6/37 |
| 9. | Water for Elephants Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616200701 Indies are still handselling this rich, romantic story set in a long-ago traveling circus. |
11/133 |
| 10. | The Postmistress Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691 Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII. |
12/28 |
| 11. | Swamplandia! Karen Russell, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307276681 Russell's wonderfully imaginative debut novel about a run-down Everglades tourist attraction is now available in paperback. |
9/3 |
| 12. | Faithful Place Tana French, Penguin, $16, 9780143119494 An intriguing Dublin murder squad novel by the bestselling author of The Likeness. |
10/7 |
| 13. | Little Bee Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648 Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England. |
15/78 |
| 14. | The Cookbook Collector Allegra Goodman, Dial, $15, 9780385340861 A delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and holding on to what is real in a virtual world. |
14/4 |
| 15. | 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. |
13/32 |
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| 20. | Safe Haven Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $14.99, 9780446547604 A mysterious love story by the bestselling author of The Notebook. |
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