National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for August 6, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending August 2, 2015
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Martian
Andy Weir, Broadway, $15.00, 9780553418026
Weir's remarkable debut novel about an astronaut stranded on Mars and his fight for survival.		 2/40
2. Euphoria
Lily King, Grove Press, $16.00, 9780802123701
A breathtaking novel about three young anthropologists of the '30s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives.		 3/20
3. Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, Vintage, $15.95, 9780804172448
St. John Mandel's audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse.		 4/9
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Perennial, $14.99, 9780060935467
One of the best-loved stories of all time, Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a masterwork of honor and injustice—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred.		 1/8
5. The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, Back Bay, $20.00, 9780316055444
Tartt's novel--plumbing the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art--is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.		 7/17
6. Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $16.00, 9780143127550
Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle to understand one another.		 6/11
7. Grey
E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9781101946343
A fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the world.		 5/7
8. The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143121701
By the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women.		 8/12
9. The Vacationers
Emma Straub, Riverhead, $16.00, 9781594633881
Straub's deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface during an American family's two-week vacation.		 9/9
10. Leaving Time
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $16.00, 9780345544940
A deeply moving, gripping, and intelligent novel, Leaving Time is Jodi Picoult at the height of her powers.		 10/13
11. 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.		 11/58
12. The Rosie Effect
Graeme Simsion, S&S, $15.99, 9781476767321
Simsion's delightful follow-up to his bestselling debut, The Rosie Project, is now available in paperback.		 15/2
13. 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.		 12/71
14. Ready Player One
Ernest Cline, Broadway, $14.00, 9780307887443
Cline's wildly original and nostalgic debut novel, set in the year 2044.		 /2
15. Adultery
Paulo Coelho, Vintage, $14.95, 9781101872246
A woman embarks on an adventure as unexpected as it is daring in the new novel by the bestselling author of The Alchemist.		 14/9
ON THE RISE
16. The Long Way Home
Louise Penny, Minotaur , $15.99, 9781250022059
A powerful Chief Inspector Gamache novel by the bestselling author of How the Light Gets In.		  

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