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Bestseller List for April 18, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending April 14, 2013
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| Trade Paperback Fiction |
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| 1. |
Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061928178 Walter's dazzling yet deeply human novel spans 50 years and nearly as many lives. |
1/2 |
| 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. |
4/15 |
| 3. |
Where'd You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316204262 Semple's compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's roles in an absurd world. |
2/2 |
| 4. |
The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758 Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback. |
7/2 |
| 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. |
5/53 |
| 6. |
The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316 McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
3/20 |
| 7. |
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. |
6/6 |
| 8. |
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 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. |
11/3 |
| 9. |
Life of Pi Yann Martel, Mariner, $15.95, 9780547848419 Martel's beloved 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel is now a major motion picture. |
8/24 |
| 10. |
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. |
10/29 |
| 11. |
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. |
13/44 |
| 12. |
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. |
9/5 |
| 13. |
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. |
/39 |
| 14. |
The Yard- Debut Alex Grecian, Berkley, $16, 9780425261279 Grecian's outstanding debut novel about Scotland Yard in late Victorian London. |
/1 |
| 15. |
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. |
12/15 |
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| 20. |
Last Friends Jane Gardam, Europa Editions, $16, 9781609450939 Gardam's third novel in her Old Filth Trilogy. |
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