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Bestseller List for October 10, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending October 6, 2013
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Trade Paperback Fiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. |
The Round House Louise Erdrich, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062065254 The masterful novel by the author of The Plague of Doves is the 2012 National Book Award-winner for fiction. |
3/2 |
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. |
2/27 |
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. |
1/27 |
4. |
Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780061493355 Chabon's big-hearted, exhilarating novel explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families. |
4/4 |
5. |
Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062124272 Kingsolver's powerful novel about the complexities of modern life in rural Appalachia. |
5/18 |
6. |
The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758 Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback. |
7/27 |
7. |
Me Before You Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16, 9780143124542 A memorable love story about two people who couldn't have less in common. |
8/10 |
8. |
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan, Picador, $15, 9781250037756 Sloan's dazzling literary adventure, set mostly in a small San Francisco bookstore, is now available in paperback. |
10/2 |
9. |
This Is How You Lose Her Junot Diaz, Riverhead, $16, 9781594631771 A collection of stories by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. |
11/5 |
10. |
The Casual Vacancy J.K. Rowling, Little Brown, $18, 9780316228589 Rowling's darkly comic and thought-provoking first novel for adults. |
9/11 |
11. |
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. |
6/9 |
12. |
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. |
12/23 |
13. |
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. |
13/25 |
14. |
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. |
14/25 |
15. |
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. |
/19 |
ON THE RISE | ||
18. |
A Thousand Mornings Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143124054 In this collection of poems, Oliver opens our eyes to the mysteries of our daily experience. |
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