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Bestseller List for April 14, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending April 10, 2011
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Trade Paperback Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | The Help- Debut Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425232200 Stockett's wonderful debut novel set in the rural South of the 1960s. |
/1 |
2. | Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368 The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country. |
1/63 |
3. | Water for Elephants Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616200701 An indie fave about a traveling circus is now a major motion picture. |
2/115 |
4. | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223 Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired). |
3/19 |
5. | A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477 Egan's masterful and genre-bending novel is now available in paperback. |
6/3 |
6. | The Imperfectionists Tom Rachman, Dial, $15, 9780385343671 Rachman's wry debut novel follows the lives of the staff of an international English-language newspaper in Rome. |
4/14 |
7. | The Postmistress Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691 Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII. |
5/10 |
8. | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell, Random House, $15, 9780812976366 The riveting novel by the author of Cloud Atlas was a July 2010 Indie Next List Great Read in hardcover. |
8/5 |
9. | Little Bee Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648 Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England. |
7/60 |
10. | The Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein, Harper, $14.99, 9780061537967 A look at life through the eyes of Enzo, a mixed-breed pooch. |
9/96 |
11. | The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Heidi W. Durrow, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781616200152 Durrow's searing debut is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction addressing issues of social justice. |
11/14 |
12. | Imperfect Birds- Debut Anne Lamott, Riverhead , $15, 9781594485046 A powerful and redemptive novel about love and family, from the bestselling author of Grace (Eventually). |
/1 |
13. | The Man From Beijing Henning Mankell, Vintage, $15, 9780307472847 An electrifying global thriller by the award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries. |
10/4 |
14. | Tinkers Paul Harding, Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95, 9781934137123 Harding's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel looks at love, loss, and the beauty of nature. |
14/48 |
15. | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford, Ballantine, $15, 9780345505347 An evocative novel of Japanese-Americans in Seattle during World War II. |
13/77 |
ON THE RISE | ||
19. | The Solitude of Prime Numbers Paolo Giordano, Penguin, $15, 9780143118596 Giordano's stunning novel about loneliness, love, and what it means to be human. |
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