Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for January 24, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending January 20, 2013
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Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List | |
1. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316 McLain's richly rewarding novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. | 1/8 |
2. | Life of Pi Yann Martel, Mariner, $15.95, 9780547848419 Martel's beloved 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel is now a major motion picture. | 2/12 |
3. | Death Comes to Pemberley P.D. James, Vintage, $15, 9780307950659 James draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem. | 3/3 |
4. | Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16, 9780312429980 The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize is now available in paperback. | 4/35 |
5. | The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307947727 In this novel by the author of Pulse, a middle-aged man contends with a past he has never much thought about. | 6/33 |
6. | Fifty Shades of Grey E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803481 The first novel in James' erotic, amusing, and deeply moving trilogy. | 5/41 |
7. | The Snow Child Eowyn Ivey, Reagan Arthur/Back Bay Books, $14.99, 9780316175661 Ivey's touching novel is set in the Alaskan wilderness of the 1920s. | 11/11 |
8. | The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Ballantine, $15, 9780345525550 Diffenbaugh's beautiful debut novel about a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others. | 9/41 |
9. | The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $14, 9781451696196 Chbosky's powerful novel of the wild and poignant days of adolescence is now a major motion picture. | 8/17 |
10. | Cloud Atlas David Mitchell, Random House, $15, 9780812984415 The dazzling third novel by the author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is now a major motion picture. | 7/13 |
11. | State of Wonder Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062049810 A provocative novel set deep in the Amazon jungle, by the author of Bel Canto. | 10/36 |
12. | The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern, Anchor, $15, 9780307744432 Morgenstern's spell-casting debut novel about a mysterious circus and a duel between two young magicians. | 12/28 |
13. | The Great Gatsby F.Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $15, 9780743273565 Fitzgerald's tale of America in the Jazz Age of the 1920s is a classic of 20th-century literature. | 13/3 |
14. | Rules of Civility Amor Towles, Penguin, $16, 9780143121169 Towles' captivating debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. | 15/29 |
15. | Home- Debut Toni Morrison, Vintage, $14, 9780307740915 Nobel Prize-winner Morrison's novel is a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war. |