National Indie Bestsellers

Trade Paperback Fiction

Bestseller List for May 22, 2019
Based on sales for the week ending May 19, 2019
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17.00, 9780735224315
A riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of a picture-perfect family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.		 3/2
2. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 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.		 1/7
3. 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.		 2/8
4. There There (An Indies Introduce Title)
Tommy Orange, Vintage, $16.00, 9780525436140
Orange's debut novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen.		 5/2
5. 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.		 4/37
6. 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.		 6/11
7. Washington Black
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.		 7/6
8. 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.		 8/50
9. 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.		 9/15
10. When Life Gives You Lululemons
Lauren Weisberger, S&S, $16.99, 9781476778457
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.		 14/2
11. 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.		 10/52
12. The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $16.99, 9781501156250
A spellbinding thriller by the bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10.		 11/3
13. The Word Is Murder- Debut
Anthony Horowitz, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062676801
Horowitz's novel is a masterful and tricky mystery that springs many surprises.		 /1
14. Clock Dance
Anne Tyler, Vintage, $16.95, 9780525563020
Tyler's charming novel of self-discovery and second chances.		 13/3
15. 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.		 12/7

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