Trade Paperback Fiction
Bestseller List for October 6, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending October 2, 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. | 1/26 |
2. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. | 3/88 |
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. | 2/111 |
4. | Freedom- Debut Jonathan Franzen, Picador , $16, 9780312576462 The new novel by the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections. | /1 |
5. | Room Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328 Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child. | 5/21 |
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. | 4/28 |
7. | A Secret Kept Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $14.99, 9780312553494 The evocative new novel by the author of Sarah's Key. | 6/3 |
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). | 8/44 |
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. | 7/121 |
10. | Started Early, Took My Dog- Debut Kate Atkinson, Reagan Arthur Books, $14.99, 9780316066747 A brilliant new novel featuring Jackson Brodie, by the author of When Will There Be Good News? | /1 |
11. | One Day David Nicholls, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307946713 A moving love story by the author of The Understudy. | 9/14 |
12. | The Postmistress Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691 Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII. | 10/35 |
13. | 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. | 14/86 |
14. | By Nightfall Michael Cunningham, Picador, $15, 9780312610432 Cunningham's poetic and compelling novel is a heartbreaking look at a marriage. | 13/4 |
15. | Fall of Giants Ken Follett, NAL, $25, 9780451232571 Book One of Follett's Century Trilogy is now available in paperback. | 11/5 |
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21. | The Potter's Field Andrea Camilleri, Penguin, $15, 9780143120131 A witty and entertaining new Montalbano novel, by a master of the Italian detective story. |