Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for April 5, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending April 1, 2012
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Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List | |
1. | The Tiger's Wife Téa Obreht, Random House, $15, 9780385343848 Debut author Obreht's breathtaking tale of myth and legend. | 1/22 |
2. | The Weird Sisters Eleanor Brown, Berkley, $15, 9780425244142 Brown's delightful novel about three sisters who love each other, but just don't happen to like each other very much. | 2/8 |
3. | The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka, Anchor, $13.95, 9780307744425 Otsuka's story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago. | 5/2 |
4. | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307454560 The stunning third and final novel in Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy. | 3/6 |
5. | The House at Tyneford Natasha Solomons, Plume, $15, 9780452297647 A young Jewish woman is forced to flee 1938 Vienna and becomes a parlor maid in England. | 4/13 |
6. | The Help Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132 Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s. | 6/52 |
7. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. | 7/114 |
8. | Swamplandia! Karen Russell, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307276681 Russell's wonderfully imaginative debut novel about a run-down Everglades tourist attraction is now available in paperback. | 10/25 |
9. | The Sisters Brothers Patrick DeWitt, Ecco, $14.99, 9780062041289 DeWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. | 9/6 |
10. | A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477 Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback. | 8/54 |
11. | The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307472984 The new No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novel follows The Double Comfort Safari Club. | 12/4 |
12. | The Girl Who Played With Fire Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307454553 Larsson's gripping sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. | /57 |
13. | The Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein, Harper, $14.99, 9780061537967 A look at life through the eyes of Enzo, a mixed-breed pooch. | 13/145 |
14. | Drawing Conclusions- Debut Donna Leon, Penguin , $15, 9780143120643 Leon's 20th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery. | /1 |
15. | Doc Mary Doria Russell, Ballantine, $15, 9780812980004 Russell's vibrant novel about John Henry "Doc" Holliday. | 15/4 |
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22. | The American Heiress Daisy Goodwin, St. Martin's Griffin, $14.99, 9780312658663 Goodwin's highly entertaining debut novel brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James. |