National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for November 6, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending November 2, 2014
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Gray Mountain
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385537148
When a Wall Street lawyer takes on a case in a small Virgina town, she finds herself engulfed in litigation that turns deadly.		 1/2
2. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27, 9781476746586
Doerr's beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France during World War II is a May 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 3/26
3. Prince Lestat- Debut
Anne Rice, Knopf, $28.95, 9780307962522
A new Vampire Chronicles novel by the bestselling author of The Queen of the Damned.		 /1
4. Lila
Marilynne Robinson, FSG, $26, 9780374187613
The remarkable new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead is an October 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/4
5. The Slow Regard of Silent Things- Debut
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $18.95, 9780756410438
Rothfuss brings us into the world of Auri, one of The Kingkiller Chronicle's most enigmatic characters.		 /1
6. Leaving Time
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $28, 9780345544926
Picoult's deeply moving, gripping, and intelligent new novel is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for October 2014.		 2/3
7. The Peripheral- Debut
William Gibson, Putnam Adult, $28.95, 9780399158445
Gibson returns with his first novel since his 2010 bestseller Zero History.		 /1
8. Edge of Eternity
Ken Follett, Dutton, $36, 9780525953098
The third volume in Follett's epic Century Trilogy, following Winter of the World.		 5/7
9. Blue Horses
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $24.95, 9781594204791
In Oliver's stunning collection of new poems, she describes with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature.		 7/3
10. The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, Little Brown, $30, 9780316055437
Tartt's novel--plumbing the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art--is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.		 10/53
11. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $25.95, 9780385352109
The eagerly awaited new novel by the internationally bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.		 6/12
12. Nora Webster
Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $27, 9781439138335
Tóibín's masterful new novel, set in Ireland, about a fiercely compelling young widow and mother of four is an October 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 13/4
13. Some Luck
Jane Smiley, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307700315
Smiley's engrossing new novel about a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America has been longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award and is an October 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 8/4
14. The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan, Knopf, $26.95, 9780385352857
Flanagan's novel tells a savagely beautiful story of love, death, and family and explores the many forms of good and evil. Winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.		 11/3
15. The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café- Debut
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780307911544
The latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's bestselling and beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.		 /1
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17. The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber, Hogarth, $28, 9780553418842
The extraordinary new novel by the bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White is a November 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		  

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