Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for March 22, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending March 18, 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. | 1/20 |
2. | 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. | 2/4 |
3. | 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. | 3/6 |
4. | 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. | 4/11 |
5. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. | 6/112 |
6. | 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. | 9/23 |
7. | The Help Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132 Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s. | 5/50 |
8. | 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. | 8/12 |
9. | A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477 Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback. | 7/52 |
10. | 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. | 10/2 |
11. | Doc Mary Doria Russell, Ballantine, $15, 9780812980004 Russell's vibrant novel about John Henry "Doc" Holliday. | 13/2 |
12. | Fifty Shades of Grey- Debut E.L. James, Writer's Coffee Shop, $29.99, 9781612130286 An erotic, amusing, and deeply moving tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you. | /1 |
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. | 12/143 |
14. | 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. | 15/12 |
15. | A Lesson in Secrets Jacqueline Winspear, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780061727719 Maisie Dobbs takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment from the British Secret Service. | 11/2 |