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Bestseller List for December 19, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending December 15, 2013
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Trade Paperback Fiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. |
Dear Life Alice Munro, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307743725 A brilliant collection of stories from one of the most beloved writers of our time and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
1/19 |
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. |
2/37 |
3. |
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. |
3/12 |
4. |
Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061928178 Walter's dazzling yet deeply human novel spans 50 years and nearly as many lives. |
4/37 |
5. |
Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062124272 Kingsolver's powerful novel about the complexities of modern life in rural Appalachia. |
7/28 |
6. |
The Best American Short Stories 2013 Elizabeth Strout, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780547554839 A very satisfying collection of the year's best short stories. |
9/10 |
7. |
Me Before You Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16, 9780143124542 A memorable love story about two people who couldn't have less in common. |
5/20 |
8. |
The Dinner Herman Koch, Hogarth, $14, 9780385346856 Koch's novel reveals the dark side of genteel society. |
6/7 |
9. |
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. |
8/12 |
10. |
The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758 Stedman's heartbreaking and transcendent debut novel is now available in paperback. |
10/37 |
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. |
14/29 |
12. |
The Aviator's Wife Melanie Benjamin, Bantam, $15, 9780345528681 Benjamin's fascinating novel about the marriage of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. |
11/2 |
13. |
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. |
12/14 |
14. |
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. |
13/35 |
15. |
The House Girl Tara Conklin, Morrow, $14.99, 9780062207517 The lives of two remarkable women who are separated by more than a century unexpectedly intertwine in Conklin's unforgettable debut novel. |
/5 |
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