National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for April 18, 2018
Based on sales for the week ending April 15, 2018
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Anything Is Possible
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $17.00, 9780812989410
In Strout's touching novel, an unforgettable cast of small-town characters cope with love and loss.		 1/3
2. Pachinko
Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $15.99, 9781455563920
This tour de force by the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires is a 2017 National Book Award Finalist.		 4/22
3. Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, Random House, $17.00, 9780812985405
The brilliant first novel by the author of Tenth of December is the winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize.		 3/10
4. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Lisa See, Scribner, $16.99, 9781501154836
In her thrilling novel, See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple.		 11/2
5. Ready Player One
Ernest Cline, Broadway, $16.00, 9780804190138
Cline's wildly original and nostalgic debut novel, set in the year 2044. Now a major motion picture.		 2/10
6. The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $16.00, 9781501132957
A suspenseful and haunting novel by the bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood.		 9/53
7. The Lying Game
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $16.99, 9781501156205
Ware's chilling new novel of friendship, secrets, and the dangerous games teenage girls play.		 8/5
8. Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman, Norton, $15.95, 9780393356182
Gaiman fashions primeval Norse stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants.		 5/6
9. The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $16.95, 9780345804327
Whitehead's award-winning novel chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.		 7/11
10. Exit West
Mohsin Hamid, Riverhead, $16.00, 9780735212206
Hamid's novel is an astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands.		 6/7
11. Small Great Things
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $17.00, 9780345544971
In Picoult's gripping novel, a woman is caught in a moral dilemma that resonates far beyond her place in time and history.		 12/8
12. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $17.00, 9781501173219
Doerr's beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France during World War II.		 10/54
13. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256
Kaur's collection of poetry and prose about survival and the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.		 /80
14. Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062645234
Horowitz's fiendishly brilliant thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling modern-day mystery.		 13/2
15. The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena, Penguin, $16.00, 9780735221109
Lapena's suspenseful novel about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors. A twisty tale of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives.		 14/45

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