National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for May 8, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending May 4, 2014
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Broadway, $15, 9780307588371
Flynn's mesmerizing thriller about a marriage gone terribly wrong.		 1/2
2. Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline, Morrow, $14.99, 9780061950728
A powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are.		 2/16
3. Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061928178
Walter's dazzling yet deeply human novel spans 50 years and nearly as many lives.		 5/57
4. Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $15.95, 9780307455925
A dazzling novel of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria, by the author of Half of a Yellow Sun.		 4/9
5. The Burgess Boys
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $15, 9780812979510
The remarkable new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge.		 3/4
6. The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer, Riverhead, $17, 9781594632341
Wolitzer's dazzling novel features complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City.		 6/6
7. The Circle
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345807298
An exhilarating novel by the bestselling author of A Hologram for the King.		 8/2
8. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316204262
Semple's compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's roles in an absurd world.		 7/57
9. The Alchemist (25th Anniversary Edition)
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $16.99, 9780062315007
This special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary bestseller includes a new foreword by Coelho.		 9/4
10. A Delicate Truth- Debut
John le Carré, Penguin, $16, 9780143125310
A masterful novel of international intrigue by the bestselling author of Our Kind of Traitor.		 /1
11. Me Before You
Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16, 9780143124542
A memorable love story about two people who couldn't have less in common.		 10/40
12. A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki, Penguin, $16, 9780143124870
Ozeki's brilliantly inventive and beguiling novel of our shared humanity and the search for home.		 11/18
13. Life After Life
Kate Atkinson, Back Bay, $18, 9780316176491
Atkinson's inventive, darkly comic, and startlingly poignant novel about a woman who lives and dies over and over again.		 12/17
14. The Light in the Ruins
Chris Bohjalian, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307743923
Bohjalian's novel is a gripping story of love, despair, and revenge set in war-ravaged Tuscany.		 13/2
15. The Cuckoo's Calling- Debut
Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling, Mulholland, $18, 9780316206853
A riveting crime fiction novel for adults by J.K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.		 /1

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