National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for January 6, 2016
Based on sales for the week ending January 3, 2016
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Martian
Andy Weir, Broadway, $15.00, 9781101903582
Weir's remarkable debut novel about an astronaut stranded on Mars and his fight for survival is now a major motion picture.		 1/62
2. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17.00, 9781609450786
A rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends by one of Italy's most acclaimed authors.		 2/31
3. Euphoria
Lily King, Grove Press, $16.00, 9780802123701
A breathtaking novel about three young anthropologists of the '30s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives.		 3/42
4. The Revenant- Debut
Michael Punke, Picador USA, $16.00, 9781250101198
A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the 19th-century American frontier. Now a major motion picture.		 /1
5. Descent
Tim Johnston, Algonquin, $15.95, 9781616204778
When a young woman goes missing on a family vacation to the Rocky Mountains, the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic.		 7/5
6. Brooklyn
Colm Toibin, Scribner, $15.00, 9781501106477
The bestselling coming-of-age novel set in Ireland and Brooklyn in the 1950s is now a major motion picture.		 6/7
7. Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, Vintage, $15.95, 9780804172448
St. John Mandel's audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse.		 4/31
8. The Story of a New Name
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $18.00, 9781609451349
Two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others.		 15/4
9. A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James, Riverhead, $17.00, 9781594633942
James's fictional exploration of a dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica's history and beyond is the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize.		 5/12
10. A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16.00, 9781476738024
In Backman's charming novel, a grumpy yet lovable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door.		 10/17
11. Lila
Marilynne Robinson, Picador USA, $16.00, 9781250074843
The remarkable novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.		 11/13
12. The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $18.00, 9781609452865
The fourth and final installment in the Neapolitan Novels series by the bestselling author of Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.		 /8
13. The Danish Girl- Debut
David Ebershoff, Penguin, $16.00, 9780143108399
Ebershoff's deeply moving novel about one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the 20th century is now a major motion picture.		 /1
14. The Good Girl
Mary Kubica, Mira, $14.95, 9780778317760
Kubica's propulsive debut novel reveals how even in the perfect family, nothing is as it seems.		 /15
15. 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.		 14/79

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