National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for January 23, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending January 19, 2014
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, Little Brown, $30, 9780316055437
A new novel of shocking narrative energy and power, plumbing the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art, by the bestselling author of The Secret History.		 2/13
2. The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd, Viking, $27.95, 9780670024780
Kidd's magnificent new novel about two unforgettable American women is the #1 Indie Next Great Read for January 2014.		 1/2
3. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches- Debut
Alan Bradley, Delacorte, $24, 9780385344050
A new Flavia de Luce novel by the bestselling author of I Am Half-Sick of Shadows.		 /1
4. The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton, Little Brown, $27, 9780316074315
Catton's breathtaking feat of storytelling in which everything is connected but nothing is as it seems is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize.		 3/14
5. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25, 9780307588364
Flynn's thriller about a marriage gone terribly wrong is a June 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.		 13/71
6. Sycamore Row
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385537131
In his latest bestselling thriller, Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters of his first novel, A Time to Kill.		 5/13
7. The Circle
Dave Eggers, Knopf, $27.95, 9780385351393
An exhilarating new novel by the bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist A Hologram for the King.		 6/15
8. Dog Songs
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594204784
Oliver's new collection of poems paints a portrait of her relationships with the companions that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work.		 4/15
9. On Such a Full Sea
Chang-rae Lee, Riverhead, $27.95, 9781594486104
The new novel by the bestselling author of The Surrendered is a deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, futuristic America.		 7/2
10. The Good Lord Bird
James McBride, Riverhead, $27.95, 9781594486340
McBride's rousing novel is the story a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown's anti-slavery crusade and must pass as a girl to survive. Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction.		 14/11
11. The First Phone Call From Heaven
Mitch Albom, Harper, $24.99, 9780062294371
Albom's moving new novel about a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife.		 /9
12. The Signature of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert, Viking, $28.95, 9780670024858
The highly anticipated new novel by the author of Eat, Pray, Love is an October 2013 Indie Next List Great Read.		 8/16
13. The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307265746
The extraordinary new novel by the author of The Namesake is short-listed for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and is an October Indie Next List Great Read.		 9/17
14. Aimless Love
Billy Collins, Random House, $26, 9780679644057
From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States comes his first compilation of new and selected poems in 12 years.		 15/13
15. Andrew's Brain- Debut
E.L. Doctorow, Random House, $26, 9781400068814
Doctorow's brilliant new novel takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster.		 /1
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21. The Kept
James Scott, Harper, $25.99, 9780062236739
In Scott's debut novel, a mother and her young son embark on a quest to avenge a tragedy that has shattered their secluded family.		  

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