National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for April 17, 2019
Based on sales for the week ending April 14, 2019
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143110439
Towles' transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.		 1/3
2. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris, Harper, $16.99, 9780062797155
A testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions. A September 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.		 2/32
3. The Woman in the Window
A.J. Finn, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062678423
Finn's smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense is soon to be a major motion picture.		 3/6
4. Warlight
Michael Ondaatje, Vintage, $16.00, 9780525562962
Ondaatje's masterful 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.		 8/2
5. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman, Penguin, $16.00, 9780735220690
Honeyman's novel is a smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and wit make for an irresistible journey.		 4/45
6. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $17.95, 9780393356687
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.		 7/2
7. The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin, Putnam, $16.00, 9780735215092
Benjamin's sweeping novel probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next.		 6/10
8. Washington Black- Debut
Esi Edugyan, Vintage, $16.95, 9780525563242
Edugyan's dazzling novel is an adventure story about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world.		 /1
9. Less
Andrew Sean Greer, Back Bay, $15.99, 9780316316132
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.		 5/47
10. The Lost Girls of Paris
Pam Jenoff, Park Row, $16.99, 9780778330271
Jenoff's remarkable novel of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II is a February 2019 Indie Next List Great Read.		 9/11
11. The Peacock Emporium- Debut
Jojo Moyes, Penguin , $16.00, 9780735222335
A novel about a young woman who opens an eclectic shop and comes to terms with the secrets of her past.		 /1
12. The Power
Naomi Alderman, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316547604
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.		 11/14
13. An American Marriage
Tayari Jones, Algonquin Books, $16.95, 9781616208684
Jones' novel is a stirring love story that looks into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control.		 10/10
14. The Huntress
Kate Quinn, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062740373
A fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America. A March 2019 Indie Next List Great Read.		 12/7
15. The Wife Between Us
Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen, St. Martin's Griffin, $16.99, 9781250130945
The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage, and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love.		 13/24

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