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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for December 29, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending December 25, 2011
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| Hardcover Fiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | 11/22/1963 Stephen King, Scribner, $35, 9781451627282 King's dramatic new novel about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. |
1/7 |
| 2. | Death Comes to Pemberley P.D. James, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307959850 James draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem. |
2/3 |
| 3. | The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316126694 Harbach's outstanding debut novel about baseball, ambition, family, friendship, and commitment, is a September Indie Next List Great Read. |
3/16 |
| 4. | 1Q84 Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30.50, 9780307593313 Murakami's stunning new novel is a tremendous feat of imagination, and a November 2011 Indie Next List Great Read. |
5/9 |
| 5. | The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides, FSG, $28, 9780374203054 An impressive new novel about the lives of three seniors at Brown University in the early 1980s by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex. |
6/11 |
| 6. | The Litigators John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535137 Grisham's latest is an entertaining novel filled with courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense. |
7/9 |
| 7. | The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes, Knopf, $23.95, 9780307957122 In this new novel by the author of Pulse, a middle-aged man contends with a past he has never much thought about. |
4/10 |
| 8. | The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385534635 Morgenstern's spell-casting debut novel about a mysterious circus and a duel between two young magicians is a September Indie Next List Great Read. |
8/15 |
| 9. | State of Wonder Ann Patchett, Harper, $26.99, 9780062049803 The provocative new novel, set deep in the Amazon jungle, by the author of Bel Canto. |
9/29 |
| 10. | The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine , $25, 9780345521309 McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway. |
11/44 |
| 11. | The Cat's Table Michael Ondaatje, Knopf, $26, 9780307700117 Ondaatje's wonderful new novel about an eleven-year-old boy on board a ship bound for England in the early 1950s is an October Indie Next List Great Read. |
10/10 |
| 12. | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307269997 The stunning third and final novel in Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy. |
/71 |
| 13. | Kill Alex Cross James Patterson, Little Brown, $28.99, 9780316198738 In Patterson's latest thriller, Alex Cross tries to stop the most devastating attack the U.S. has ever experienced. |
/2 |
| 14. | The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 9780547577531 Eco's highly anticipated new historical novel about conspiracies and conspiracy theories is a November Indie Next List Great Read. |
15/7 |
| 15. | V Is for Vengeance Sue Grafton, Marian Wood Books/Putnam, $27.95, 9780399157868 A new Kinsey Millhone mystery by the bestselling author of U Is for Undertow. |
14/6 |