National Indie Bestsellers

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 Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. 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.		 /1
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
ON THE RISE
19. 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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