National Indie Bestsellers - Extended Paperback Fiction

Based on sales for the week ending February 5, 2012

16. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
Jan-Philipp Sendker, Other Press, $14.95, 9781590514634

17. The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $15, 9780743273565

18. Emily, Alone
Stewart O'Nan, Penguin, $15, 9780143120490

19. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford, Ballantine, $15, 9780345505347

20. Freedom
Jonathan Franzen, Picador, $16, 9780312576462

21. An Object of Beauty
Steve Martin, Grand Central, $14.99, 9780446573658

22. Faith
Jennifer Haigh, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780060755812

23. City of Thieves
David Benioff, Plume, $15, 9780452295292

24. The Forgotten Garden
Kate Morton, Washington Square Press, $15, 9781416550556

25. The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman, Dial, $15, 9780385343671

26. The Descendants
Kaui Hart Hemmings, Random House, $15, 9780812982954

27. The Kitchen House
Kathleen Grissom, Touchstone, $16, 9781439153666

28. Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann, Random House, $15, 9780812973990

29. West of Here
Jonathan Evison, Algonquin, $15.95, 9781616200824

30. A Secret Kept
Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's, $14.99, 9780312553494

31. Sister
Rosamund Lupton, Broadway, $14, 9780307716521

32. The Postmistress
Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691

33. Night Road
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $14.99, 9780312364434

34. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus.), Back Bay, $13.99, 9780316038409

35. The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $14.99, 9780061122415

36. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley, Bantam, $15, 9780385343497

37. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery, Europa Editions, $15, 9781933372600

38. Started Early, Took My Dog
Kate Atkinson, Reagan Arthur, $14.99, 9780316066747

39. A Dog's Purpose
W.Bruce Cameron, Forge, $12.99, 9780765330345

40. The Peach Keeper
Sarah Addison Allen, Bantam, $15, 9780553385601

41. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
Heidi W. Durrow, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781616200152

42. Smut: Stories
Alan Bennett, Picador, $14, 9781250003164

43. Ten Thousand Saints
Eleanor Henderson, Ecco Press, $15.99, 9780062021212

44. The Best American Short Stories 2011
Geraldine Brooks, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780547242163

45. Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts, St. Martin's, $14.99, 9780312330538

46. Tinkers
Paul Harding, Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95, 9781934137123

47. The Empty Family
Colm Toibin, Scribner, $15, 9781439195963

48. The Death Instinct
Jed Rubenfeld, Riverhead, $16, 9781594485602

49. The Witch's Daughter
Paula Brackston, St. Martin's Griffin, $14.99, 9781250004086

50. Blueprints of the Afterlife
Ryan Boudinot, Grove, $14, 9780802170910

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