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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for May 16, 2018
Based on sales for the week ending May 13, 2018
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| Hardcover Fiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. |
Warlight- Debut Michael Ondaatje, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525521198 Ondaatje's masterful new novel tells a dramatic story set in London the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of mysterious characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement with one another. A May 2018 Indie Next List Great Read. |
/1 |
| 2. |
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. |
1/5 |
| 3. |
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. |
2/35 |
| 4. |
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. |
6/19 |
| 5. |
Adjustment Day Chuck Palahniuk, Norton, $26.95, 9780393652598 In his first novel in four years, Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. |
3/2 |
| 6. |
Love and Ruin Paula McLain, Ballantine, $28.00, 9781101967386 McLain's evocative new novel about Ernest Hemingway's passionate and stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn is a May 2018 Indie Next List Great Read. |
11/2 |
| 7. |
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. |
7/88 |
| 8. |
The Fallen David Baldacci, Grand Central, $29.00, 9781538761397 Amos Decker returns in bestselling author David Baldacci's latest Memory Man thriller. |
4/4 |
| 9. |
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. |
8/6 |
| 10. |
The Hellfire Club- Debut Jake Tapper, Little Brown, $27.00, 9780316472319 A debut political thriller by CNN's chief Washington correspondent about a secret society in 1950s D.C. and a young Congressman in its grip. |
/1 |
| 11. |
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. |
10/9 |
| 12. |
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. |
5/5 |
| 13. |
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. |
14/14 |
| 14. |
The Mars Room Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $27.00, 9781476756554 The compelling new novel by the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers is a May 2018 Indie Next List Great Read. |
15/2 |
| 15. |
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. |
/4 |
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