National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for August 27, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending August 23, 2015
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee, Harper, $27.99, 9780062409850
Lee's landmark new novel, which is set two decades after To Kill a Mockingbird, is actually the first draft of the story she reworked to create her Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece.
1/6
2. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27.00, 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.
2/62
3. The Girl on the Train
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.
3/26
4. Circling the Sun
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $28.00, 9780345534187
The engrossing new novel by the bestselling author of The Paris Wife is an August 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.
4/4
5. Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $25.95, 9780385352123
Widely available in English for the first time, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself, Wind/Pinball gives us a fascinating insight into a great writer's beginnings.
5/3
6. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $27.99, 9780312577223
Hannah's heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women is a February 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.
6/29
7. The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George, Crown, $25.00, 9780553418774
George's heartwarming new novel is a July 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.
8/9
8. Kitchens of the Great Midwest
J.Ryan Stradal, Pamela Dorman Books, $25.00, 9780525429142 (An Indies Introduce Title)
By turns quirky, hilarious, and vividly sensory, Stradal's debut novel is an August 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.
7/4
9. Last Bus to Wisdom- Debut
Ivan Doig, Riverhead, $28.95, 9781594632020
Last Bus to Wisdom is a last sweet gift from a writer whose books have bestowed untold pleasure on countless readers.
/1
10. Armada
Ernest Cline, Crown, $26.00, 9780804137256
Cline's rollicking and surprising new novel is an August 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.
10/6
11. The Marriage of Opposites
Alice Hoffman, S&S, $27.99, 9781451693591
Hoffman's new novel is a forbidden love story set on St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro, the Father of Impressionism. An August 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.
9/3
12. Who Do You Love
Jennifer Weiner, Atria, $27.00, 9781451617818
An unforgettable novel about true love, real life, and second chances, by the bestselling author of All Fall Down.
13/2
13. The English Spy
Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99, 9780062320131
A stunning new Gabriel Allon novel by the bestselling author of The English Assassin.
11/8
14. A Manual for Cleaning Women- Debut
Lucia Berlin, FSG, $26.00, 9780374202392
Readers will revel in this remarkable collection of stories from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place.
/1
15. Alert
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge, Little Brown, $28.00, 9780316407038
Detective Michael Bennett and the FBI's Emily Parker have to catch the shadowy criminals who claim responsibility for two high-tech attacks on New York.
14/3
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17. Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh, Penguin Press, $25.95, 9781594206627
Moshfegh's powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature.
 

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