National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for September 7, 2016
Based on sales for the week ending September 4, 2016
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Weeks on List
1. The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385542364
Whitehead's magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South is a September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 1/5
2. A Great Reckoning- Debut
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250022134
Penny's brilliant and emotionally powerful new Chief Inspector Gamache novel is a September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
3. The Girls
Emma Cline, Random House, $27.00, 9780812998603
Cline's remarkable debut novel is gorgeously written and spellbinding, with razor-sharp precision and startling psychological insight. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for June 2016.		 2/12
4. The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $26.00, 9781501132933
The suspenseful and haunting new novel by the bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood is an August 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/7
5. 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.		 3/120
6. The Nix- Debut
Nathan Hill, Knopf, $27.95, 9781101946619
The Nix explores--with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness--the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change. A September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /1
7. Truly Madly Guilty
Liane Moriarty, Flatiron, $26.99, 9781250069795
In her new novel Moriarty shows how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late.		 5/6
8. Dark Matter
Blake Crouch, Crown, $26.99, 9781101904220
Crouch's brilliantly plotted and relentlessly surprising thriller is an August 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 6/5
9. The Black Widow
Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99, 9780062320223
Gabriel Allon grapples with an ISIS mastermind in the new thriller by the bestselling author of The English Spy.		 7/8
10. 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.		 11/77
11. Homegoing (An Indies Introduce Title)
Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $26.95, 9781101947135
Gyasi's astonishing debut novel is an Indies Introduce title and a June 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 12/13
12. Heroes of the Frontier
Dave Eggers, Knopf, $28.95, 9780451493804
The new novel by the bestselling author of The Circle is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure.		 9/6
13. Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson, Amistad, $22.99, 9780062359988
Woodson's exquisitely rendered novel that illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for August 2016.		 /3
14. Surrender, New York
Caleb Carr, Random House, $30.00, 9780679455691
An engrossing contemporary psychological thriller by the bestselling author of The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness.		 8/2
15. Before the Fall
Noah Hawley, Grand Central, $26.00, 9781455561780
Hawley's stunning novel, raising questions of fate, human nature, and the inextricable ties that bind us together, is a June 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 10/14
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22. The Jealous Kind
James Lee Burke, S&S, $27.99, 9781501107207
Burke's atmospheric coming-of-age story set in Texas in 1952, as the Korean War rages.		  

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