National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for February 21, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending February 17, 2013
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316
McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.
1/12
2. Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James, Vintage, $15, 9780307950659
James draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.
2/7
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $14, 9781451696196
Chbosky's powerful novel of the wild and poignant days of adolescence is now a major motion picture.
13/21
4. Canada
Richard Ford, Ecco Press, $15.99, 9780061692031
Ford's masterful novel about the mysterious and consoling bonds of family.
3/4
5. The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Ballantine, $15, 9780345525550
Diffenbaugh's beautiful debut novel about a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others.
4/45
6. Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803481
The first novel in James' erotic, amusing, and deeply moving trilogy.
9/45
7. Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16, 9780312429980
The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize is now available in paperback.
5/39
8. The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307947727
In this novel by the author of Pulse, a middle-aged man contends with a past he has never much thought about.
6/37
9. The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern, Anchor, $15, 9780307744432
Morgenstern's spell-casting debut novel about a mysterious circus and a duel between two young magicians.
7/32
10. Life of Pi
Yann Martel, Mariner, $15.95, 9780547848419
Martel's beloved 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel is now a major motion picture.
8/16
11. The Great Gatsby
F.Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $15, 9780743273565
Fitzgerald's tale of America in the Jazz Age of the 1920s is a classic of 20th-century literature.
15/7
12. The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey, Reagan Arthur/Back Bay Books, $14.99, 9780316175661
Ivey's touching novel is set in the Alaskan wilderness of the 1920s.
12/15
13. Rules of Civility
Amor Towles, Penguin, $16, 9780143121169
Towles' captivating debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose.
11/33
14. In One Person- Debut
John Irving, S&S, $15.99, 9781451664133
Irving's intimate and unforgettable new novel about the life of a bisexual man.
/1
15. State of Wonder
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062049810
A provocative novel set deep in the Amazon jungle, by the author of Bel Canto.
10/40
ON THE RISE
20. The Age of Miracles
Karen Thompson Walker, Random House, $15, 9780812982947
Walker's luminous and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.
 


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