National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction

Bestseller List for August 15, 2018
Based on sales for the week ending August 12, 2018
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  Hardcover Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. There There (An Indies Introduce Title)
Tommy Orange, Knopf, $25.95, 9780525520375
Orange's debut novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. The #1 June 2018 Indie Next List Great Read and a Summer 2018 Indies Introduce title.		 1/10
2. The Other Woman
Daniel Silva, Harper, $28.99, 9780062834829
A thrilling new Gabriel Allon novel by the bestselling author of House of Spies.		 3/4
3. The President Is Missing
Bill Clinton, James Patterson, Little Brown, $30.00, 9780316412698
Clinton and Patterson's suspenseful novel confronts a threat so huge that it jeopardizes not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street,but all of America.		 2/10
4. 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.		 6/101
5. Clock Dance
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525521228
Tyler's charming new novel of self-discovery and second chances is a July 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 5/5
6. 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.		 4/18
7. The Outsider
Stephen King, Scribner, $30.00, 9781501180989
An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. With The Outsider, King has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable novels.		 7/12
8. When Life Gives You Lululemons
Lauren Weisberger, S&S, $26.99, 9781476778440
With her signature wit, Weisberger offers an alluring look into a sexy, over-the-top world--and proves it's style and substance together that gets the job done.		 8/10
9. 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.		 9/48
10. Warlight
Michael Ondaatje, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525521198
Ondaatje's masterful new novel tells a dramatic story set in London in 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.		 10/14
11. My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh, Penguin Press, $26.00, 9780525522119
Moshfegh's darkly comic new novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for July 2018.		 12/5
12. The Woman in the Window
A.J. Finn, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062678416
Finn's smart and sophisticated novel of psychological suspense is a January 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 14/21
13. Ghosted
Rosie Walsh, Pamela Dorman Books, $26.00, 9780525522775
Seven perfect days. Then he disappeared. Ghosted is a love story with a secret at its heart.		 13/2
14. All We Ever Wanted
Emily Giffin, Ballantine, $28.00, 9780399178924
In Giffin's gripping new novel, three very different people must choose between their families and their most deeply held values.		 11/7
15. The Incendiaries (An Indies Introduce Title)
R.O. Kwon, Riverhead, $26.00, 9780735213890
Kwon's powerful debut novel of violence, love, faith, and loss is Summer 2018 Indies Introduce title and the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for August 2018.		 15/2

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