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Bestseller List for April 12, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending April 8, 2012
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Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | Fifty Shades of Grey- Debut E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803481 The first novel in James' erotic, amusing, and deeply moving trilogy. |
/1 |
2. | The Tiger's Wife Téa Obreht, Random House, $15, 9780385343848 Debut author Obreht's breathtaking tale of myth and legend. |
1/23 |
3. | The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka, Anchor, $13.95, 9780307744425 Otsuka's story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago. |
3/3 |
4. | The Weird Sisters Eleanor Brown, Berkley, $15, 9780425244142 Brown's delightful novel about three sisters who love each other, but just don't happen to like each other very much. |
2/9 |
5. | The Dovekeepers- Debut Alice Hoffman, Scribner, $16, 9781451617481 Hoffman's ambitious and mesmerizing novel, set in ancient Israel, now available in paperback. |
/1 |
6. | The House at Tyneford Natasha Solomons, Plume, $15, 9780452297647 A young Jewish woman is forced to flee 1938 Vienna and becomes a parlor maid in England. |
5/14 |
7. | The Language of Flowers- Debut Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Ballantine, $15, 9780345525550 Diffenbaugh's beautiful debut novel about a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others. |
/1 |
8. | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307454560 The stunning third and final novel in Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy. |
4/7 |
9. | The Troubled Man- Debut Henning Mankell, Vintage , $15, 9780307477408 Mankell's final novel of suspense featuring detective Kurt Wallander. |
/1 |
10. | The Help Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132 Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s. |
6/53 |
11. | Swamplandia! Karen Russell, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307276681 Russell's wonderfully imaginative debut novel about a run-down Everglades tourist attraction. |
8/26 |
12. | Drawing Conclusions Donna Leon, Penguin, $15, 9780143120643 Leon's 20th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery. |
14/2 |
13. | 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. |
13/146 |
14. | The Sisters Brothers Patrick DeWitt, Ecco, $14.99, 9780062041289 DeWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. |
9/7 |
15. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. |
7/115 |
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