National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for April 4, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending March 31, 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.		 1/18
2. 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.		 5/13
3. Life of Pi
Yann Martel, Mariner, $15.95, 9780547848419
Martel's beloved 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel is now a major motion picture.		 4/22
4. The Orchardist
Amanda Coplin, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062188519
Coplin's touching debut novel about a reclusive man who opens his heart and lets the world in.		 2/4
5. 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.		 6/27
6. 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.		 3/51
7. The Prisoner of Heaven
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780062206299
Carlos Ruiz Zafón takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and tells a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, and revenge.		 9/3
8. 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.		 7/13
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.		 12/38
10. Rules of Civility
Amor Towles, Penguin, $16, 9780143121169
Towles' captivating debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose.		 10/39
11. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry- Debut
Rachel Joyce, Random House, $15, 9780812983456
Joyce's novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we bury within our hearts.		 /1
12. Things Fall Apart- Debut
Chinua Achebe, Anchor, $11.95, 9780385474542
Achebe's classic novel centering on Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria, before and after the arrival of colonialism.		 /1
13. 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.		 15/46
14. Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16, 9780312429980
The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize is now available in paperback.		 13/45
15. 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.		 14/21

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