National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for January 22, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending January 18, 2015
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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.		 1/37
2. The Girl on the Train- Debut
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594633669
Hawkins' debut is a psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. A January 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
3. The First Bad Man- Debut
Miranda July, Scribner, $25, 9781439172568
The unforgettable debut novel by the bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You is a January 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
4. 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.		 4/64
5. 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.		 2/12
6. The Boston Girl
Anita Diamant, Scribner, $26, 9781439199350
Diamant's unforgettable new novel about family ties, values, friendship, and feminism seen through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early 20th century is a December 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 5/6
7. 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.		 3/13
8. Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, Knopf, $24.95, 9780385353304
St. John Mandel's novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse is a September 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 7/10
9. The Rosie Effect
Graeme Simsion, S&S, $25.99, 9781476767314
Simsion's delightful follow-up to his bestselling debut, The Rosie Project, is a January 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 8/3
10. 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.		 9/9
11. 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.		 10/15
12. Saint Odd- Debut
Dean Koontz, Bantam, $28, 9780345545879
Koontz brings the unforgettable odyssey of Odd Thomas to its dazzling conclusion.		 /1
13. Descent
Tim Johnston, Algonquin, $25.95, 9781616203047
Johnston's gripping thriller about a girl's disappearance in the Rocky Mountains is a January 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 14/2
14. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
Alan Bradley, Delacorte, $25, 9780345539939
In Bradley's latest Flavia de Luce mystery, Flavia takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools.		 6/2
15. The Secret Wisdom of the Earth- Debut
Chris Scotton, Grand Central, $26, 9781455551927
Scotton's redemptive and emotionally resonant debut novel is a January 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
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16. Outline
Rachel Cusk, FSG, $26, 9780374228347
Cusk's Outline is a novel in 10 conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens.		  

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