National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for October 22, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending October 18, 2015
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. 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.		 1/70
2. The Girl in the Spider's Web
David Lagercrantz, Knopf, $27.95, 9780385354288
Acclaimed Swedish journalist and author Lagercrantz continues Stieg Larsson's Millennium series as Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return in this adrenaline-charged thriller.		 2/7
3. City on Fire- Debut
Garth Risk Hallberg, Knopf, $30.00, 9780385353779
Hallberg's stunning debut novel about New York in the 1970s is an October 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
4. Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff, Riverhead, $27.95, 9781594634475
Groff's exhilarating new novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception is an October 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/5
5. See Me- Debut
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $27.00, 9781455520619
The new novel by the bestselling author of The Notebook reminds us that those who see us for who we truly are may not always be the ones easiest to recognize.		 /1
6. 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.		 6/34
7. Purity
Jonathan Franzen, FSG, $28.00, 9780374239213
A grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, by the bestselling author of The Corrections and Freedom.		 5/7
8. The Survivor
Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills, Atria, $28.00, 9781476783451
Mitch Rapp returns in a blistering novel that picks up where The Last Man left off.		 8/2
9. 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.		 3/14
10. Felicity: Poems- Debut
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $24.95, 9781594206764
In her new collection poems, Oliver describes--with joy--the strangeness and wonder of human connection.		 /1
11. The Secret Chord
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $27.95, 9780670025770
A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of People of the Book and March.		 7/2
12. After You
Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books, $26.95, 9780525426592
After You is quintessential Jojo Moyes--a novel that will make you laugh, cry, and rejoice at being back in the world she creates.		 9/3
13. Make Me
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28.99, 9780804178778
The 20th Jack Reacher novel by the bestselling author of Personal.		 10/6
14. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $30.00, 9780345533487
Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three prequel novellas to George R.R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire.		 11/2
15. 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.		 12/37
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17. Thirteen Ways of Looking
Colum McCann, Random House, $26.00, 9780812996722
A powerful collection of short fiction by the National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin.		  

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