Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for March 24, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending March 20, 2011
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Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List | |
1. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. | 1/60 |
2. | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223 Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired). | 3/16 |
3. | Water for Elephants Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616200701 An indie fave about a traveling circus is now a major motion picture. | 2/112 |
4. | 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. | 4/11 |
5. | The Postmistress Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691 Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII. | 5/7 |
6. | Little Bee Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648 Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England. | 6/57 |
7. | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell, Random House, $15, 9780812976366 The riveting novel by the author of Cloud Atlas was a July 2010 Indie Next List Great Read in hardcover. | 12/2 |
8. | The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Heidi W. Durrow, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781616200152 Durrow's searing debut is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction addressing issues of social justice. | 8/11 |
9. | 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. | 7/93 |
10. | The Three Weissmanns of Westport Cathleen Schine, Picador, $14, 9780312680527 Schine's wonderful follow-up to her novel The New Yorkers. | 9/6 |
11. | Tinkers Paul Harding, Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95, 9781934137123 Harding's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel looks at love, loss, and the beauty of nature. | 11/45 |
12. | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford, Ballantine, $15, 9780345505347 An evocative novel of Japanese-Americans in Seattle during World War II. | 10/74 |
13. | Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9781416586296 Walls follows up her bestselling memoir, The Glass Castle, with this true-life novel about her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith. | 13/28 |
14. | The Man from Beijing- Debut Henning Mankell, Vintage , $15, 9780307472847 An electrifying global thriller by the award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries. | /1 |
15. | Solar- Debut Ian McEwan, Anchor, $15, 9780307739537 McEwan's latest novel is the tale of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. | /1 |
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16. | The Double Comfort Safari Club Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $14, 9780307277480 The 11th installment in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series is now available in paperback. |