Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for August 18, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending August 14, 2011
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Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List | |
1. | The Help Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132 Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s. | 1/19 |
2. | Room Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328 Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child. | 2/14 |
3. | Sarah's Key Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $13.99, 9781250004345 This mesmerizing story of a tragic past, and a present torn apart, is now a major motion picture. | 5/104 |
4. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. | 4/81 |
5. | A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477 Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback. | 3/21 |
6. | One Day David Nicholls, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307946713 A moving love story by the author of The Understudy. | 7/7 |
7. | 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. | 8/114 |
8. | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223 Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired). | 6/37 |
9. | Water for Elephants Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616200701 Indies are still handselling this rich, romantic story set in a long-ago traveling circus. | 11/133 |
10. | The Postmistress Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691 Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII. | 12/28 |
11. | 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. | 9/3 |
12. | Faithful Place Tana French, Penguin, $16, 9780143119494 An intriguing Dublin murder squad novel by the bestselling author of The Likeness. | 10/7 |
13. | Little Bee Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648 Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England. | 15/78 |
14. | The Cookbook Collector Allegra Goodman, Dial, $15, 9780385340861 A delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and holding on to what is real in a virtual world. | 14/4 |
15. | The Imperfectionists Tom Rachman, Dial, $15, 9780385343671 Rachman's wry debut novel follows the lives of the staff of an international English-language newspaper in Rome. | 13/32 |
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20. | Safe Haven Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $14.99, 9780446547604 A mysterious love story by the bestselling author of The Notebook. |