National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for April 25, 2018
Based on sales for the week ending April 22, 2018
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $27.95, 9780393635522
National Book Award-winner Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. An April 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.
9/2
2. The Fallen- Debut
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $29.00, 9781538761397
Amos Decker returns in bestselling author David Baldacci's latest Memory Man thriller.
/1
3. Circe
Madeline Miller, Little Brown, $27.00, 9780316556347
Miller's masterful follow-up to The Song of Achilles is an April 2018 Indie Next List Great read.
3/2
4. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin Press, $27.00, 9780735224292
The riveting new novel by the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You is a September 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.
2/32
5. The Female Persuasion
Meg Wolitzer, Riverhead, $28.00, 9781594488405
Wolitzer's electric new novel about power and influence, ego and loyalty, womanhood and ambition is an April 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.
1/3
6. Varina
Charles Frazier, Ecco, $27.99, 9780062405982
In his powerful new novel, Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War. An April 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.
4/3
7. Tangerine (An Indies Introduce Title)
Christine Mangan, Ecco, $26.99, 9780062686664
Mangan's exotic and suspenseful debut novel is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for April 2018 and a Spring 2018 Indies Introduce title.
5/4
8. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Viking, $27.00, 9780670026197
Towles' transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel is a September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.
6/85
9. The Power
Naomi Alderman, Little Brown, $26.00, 9780316547611
Alderman's novel is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality, and exposing our own world in bold and surprising ways.
7/16
10. The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $28.99, 9780312577230
Hannah's new novel is a daring and beautiful story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature. A February 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.
8/11
11. Noir- Debut
Christopher Moore, Morrow, $27.99, 9780062433978
Moore returns in his finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-WWII San Francisco. A May 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1
12. Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate, Ballantine, $26.00, 9780425284681
Wingate's novel--based on a notorious adoption scandal-- is a riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale that reminds us that the heart never forgets where we belong.
10/6
13. Less
Andrew Sean Greer, Lee Boudreaux Books, $26.00, 9780316316125
A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, and a bittersweet romance of chances lost. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
/3
14. An American Marriage
Tayari Jones, Algonquin, $26.95, 9781616208776
Jones' novel is a stirring love story that looks into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. A February 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.
11/10
15. The Only Story- Debut
Julian Barnes, Knopf, $25.95, 9780525521211
The masterful new novel by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending is a May 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1

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