National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for December 4, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending November 30, 2014
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. 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.		 1/30
2. 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.		 2/6
3. Revival
Stephen King, Scribner, $30, 9781476770383
This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written.		 4/3
4. The Escape
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $28, 9781455521197
U.S. Army special agent John Puller must hunt down the most formidable and brilliant prey he has ever tracked: his own brother.		 3/2
5. The Burning Room
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $28, 9780316225939
In Connelly's new bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot... very fast.		 5/4
6. Let Me Be Frank With You
Richard Ford, Ecco, $27.99, 9780061692062
Pulitzer Prize-winner Ford returns to the territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe.		 7/4
7. 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.		 6/8
8. 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.		 9/57
9. Redeployment
Phil Klay, Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594204999
Klay's stories take readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there and what happened to the soldiers who returned. A March 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /5
10. Hope to Die- Debut
James Patterson, Little Brown, $29, 9780316210966
Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius and is forced to play the deadliest game of his career.		 /1
11. 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.		 10/7
12. The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $18.95, 9780756410438
Rothfuss brings us into the world of Auri, one of The Kingkiller Chronicle's most enigmatic characters.		 11/5
13. Prince Lestat
Anne Rice, Knopf, $28.95, 9780307962522
A new Vampire Chronicles novel by the bestselling author of The Queen of the Damned.		 8/5
14. 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.		 12/7
15. Edge of Eternity
Ken Follett, Dutton, $36, 9780525953098
The third volume in Follett's epic Century Trilogy, following Winter of the World.		 /10

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