National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for December 18, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending December 14, 2014
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Martian
Andy Weir, Broadway, $15, 9780553418026
Weir's remarkable debut novel about an astronaut stranded on Mars and his fight for survival.		 2/7
2. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Gabrielle Zevin, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616204518
Zevin's truly enchanting novel is a love letter to the world of books--and booksellers.		 3/3
3. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Broadway, $15, 9780553418361
Flynn's mesmerizing thriller about a marriage gone terribly wrong is now a major motion picture.		 1/16
4. Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline, Morrow, $14.99, 9780061950728
A powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are.		 5/47
5. Still Life With Bread Crumbs
Anna Quindlen, Random House, $16, 9780812976892
A superb love story by the bestselling author of A Short Guide to a Happy Life.		 4/7
6. The Best American Short Stories 2014
Jennifer Egan, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780547868868
A very satisfying collection of the year's best short stories.		 6/10
7. Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $15.95, 9780307455925
A dazzling novel of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria, by the author of Half of a Yellow Sun.		 9/40
8. The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion, S&S, $15.99, 9781476729091
Simsion's heartfelt and humorous debut novel about a college professor's search for the perfect wife.		 8/28
9. The Strange Library
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $18, 9780385354301
Murakami's fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library.		 7/2
10. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $14.99, 9780062255662
A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror.		 12/26
11. The First Phone Call From Heaven
Mitch Albom, Harper, $15.99, 9780062294401
Albom's moving novel about a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife.		 11/7
12. The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton, Back Bay, $18, 9780316074292
Catton's breathtaking feat of storytelling in which everything is connected but nothing is as it seems is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize.		 10/10
13. My Brilliant Friend- Debut
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609450786
A rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends by one of Italy's most acclaimed authors.		 /1
14. The Signature of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $17, 9780143125846
A sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, by the bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love.		 /21
15. The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Alice Hoffman, Scribner, $16, 9781451693577
Hoffman's mesmerizing novel of impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New York during the volatile first decades of the 20th century.		 13/11

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