Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for January 19, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending January 15, 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 bestselling tale of myth and legend is now available in paperback. | 1/11 |
2. | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer, Mariner, $14.95, 9780547735023 Foer's warm and brilliant imaginings from the viewpoint of a boy left fatherless by 9/11 is now a major motion picture. | 4/* |
3. | 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. | 5/14 |
4. | The Help Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132 Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s. | 3/41 |
5. | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John le Carré, Penguin, $16, 9780143120933 Le Carré's celebrated heart-stopping tale of international intrigue is now a major motion picture. | 8/3 |
6. | A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477 Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback. | 6/43 |
7. | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307949493 The first installment in the bestselling thriller trilogy by the late Swedish journalist Larsson. | 2/* |
8. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. | 9/103 |
9. | The Girl Who Played With Fire Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307454553 The highly anticipated sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. | 7/* |
10. | A Discovery of Witches Deborah Harkness, Penguin, $16, 9780143119685 A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and a mysterious manuscript. | 10/3 |
11. | Room Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328 Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child. | 12/36 |
12. | 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. | 14/2 |
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. | /135 |
14. | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223 Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired). | 13/59 |
15. | Sarah's Key Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $13.99, 9781250004345 A mesmerizing story of a tragic past, and a present torn apart. | 11/126 |