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Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for May 16, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending May 12, 2013
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| Trade Paperback Fiction |
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The Great Gatsby F.Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $15, 9781451689433 Fitzgerald's tale of America in the Jazz Age of the 1920s is a classic of 20th-century literature, and now a major motion picture. |
1/18 |
| 2. |
Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061928178 Walter's dazzling yet deeply human novel spans 50 years and nearly as many lives. |
2/6 |
| 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. |
4/6 |
| 4. |
The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson, Random House, $15, 9780812982626 Johnson's epic story of a young man's journey through the mysterious dictatorship of North Korea. |
3/4 |
| 5. |
The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758 Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback. |
5/6 |
| 6. |
The Art Forger B.A. Shapiro, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616203160 Shapiro's absorbing literary thriller treats readers to three centuries of forgers, art thieves, and obsessive collectors. |
9/2 |
| 7. |
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. |
8/57 |
| 8. |
The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316219341 This powerful novel, written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, is a harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive. |
10/2 |
| 9. |
Bring Up the Bodies- Debut Hilary Mantel, Picador USA, $16, 9781250024176 Mantel's follow-up to Wolf Hall is the winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize. |
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| 10. |
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. |
6/10 |
| 11. |
The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316 McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
7/24 |
| 12. |
Broken Harbor Tana French, Penguin, $16, 9780143123309 A riveting Dublin Murder Squad novel by the bestselling author of In the Woods. |
12/2 |
| 13. |
Istanbul Passage Joseph Kanon, Washington Square Press, $16, 9781439156438 Kanon's haunting novel about a man swept up in the dawn of the Cold War. |
13/4 |
| 14. |
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. |
15/7 |
| 15. |
Phantom Jo Nesbø, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307951151 A riveting Harry Hole novel by the bestselling author of The Leopard. |
11/3 |
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City of Women David R. Gillham, Berkley , $16, 9780425252963 Gillham's extraordinary novel explores what happens to ordinary people thrust into extraordinary times, and how the choices they make can be the difference between life and death. |
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