National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for September 5, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending September 1, 2013
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
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.
1/22
2. 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.
2/22
3. Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062124272
Kingsolver's powerful novel about the complexities of modern life in rural Appalachia.
3/13
4. The Silent Wife
A.S.A. Harrison, Penguin, $16, 9780143123231
Harrison's expertly plotted novel about a married couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can't be made, and promises that won't be kept.
5/4
5. The Casual Vacancy
J.K. Rowling, Little Brown, $18, 9780316228589
Rowling's darkly comic and thought-provoking first novel for adults.
4/6
6. 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.
9/20
7. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758
Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback.
7/22
8. Me Before You
Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16, 9780143124542
A memorable love story about two people who couldn't have less in common.
6/5
9. Dear Life
Alice Munro, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307743725
A brilliant collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time.
8/5
10. 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.
/15
11. 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.
10/18
12. The Bat
Jo Nesbø, Vintage, $14.95, 9780345807090
The first Inspector Harry Hole novel by the bestselling author of The Redeemer.
11/9
13. Joyland
Stephen King, Hard Case Crime, $12.95, 9781781162644
KIng's novel, set in a small-town amusement park in 1973, tells the story of a college student who comes to work as a carny and how his life is changed forever.
14/13
14. A Hologram for the King
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307947512
Eggers takes readers around the world in this novel about one man's fight to hold himself and his family together in the face of the global economic crisis.
15/13
15. Sweet Tooth
Ian McEwan, Anchor, $15.95, 9780345803450
A wonderfully witty novel of betrayal and intrigue by the bestselling author of The Innocent.
12/9
ON THE RISE
18. Winter of the World
Ken Follett, NAL, $25, 9780451419248
Book two of Follett's Century Trilogy follows Fall of Giants.
 

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