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Bestseller List for August 21, 2019
Based on sales for the week ending August 18, 2019
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Trade Paperback Fiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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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. |
1/15 |
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. |
3/50 |
3. |
The Witch Elm Tana French, Penguin, $17.00, 9780735224643 A spellbinding standalone novel by the bestselling author of the Dublin Murder Squad series. |
4/3 |
4. |
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. |
2/20 |
5. |
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. |
5/21 |
6. |
Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate, Ballantine, $17.00, 9780425284704 Wingate's novel, which is based on a notorious adoption scandal, is a riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale that reminds us the heart never forgets where we belong. |
8/13 |
7. |
The Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein, Harper, $16.99, 9780062364913 Stein's novel is a look at life through the eyes of Enzo, a mixed-breed pooch. Now a major motion picture. |
6/2 |
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. |
10/63 |
9. |
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. |
9/24 |
10. |
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. |
11/15 |
11. |
My Sister, the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite, Anchor, $14.95, 9780525564201 Braithwaite's darkly funny novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. |
12/3 |
12. |
Beloved Toni Morrison, Vintage, $16.00, 9781400033416 Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, Morrison's spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. |
7/2 |
13. |
Hippie Paulo Coelho, Vintage, $15.00, 9780525565185 In his new novel, Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. |
13/2 |
14. |
Ghosted Rosie Walsh, Penguin, $16.00, 9780525522799 Seven perfect days. Then he disappeared. Ghosted is a love story with a secret at its heart. |
14/8 |
15. |
The Bluest Eye- Debut Toni Morrison, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307278449 Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that always characterized her writing. |
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