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Indiebestsellers Indie Bestsellers Fiction Week of 03.31.21 HARDCOVER PAPERBACK 1. Klara and the Sun 1. The Song of Achilles Kazuo Ishiguro, Knopf, $28 Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99 2. The Midnight Library 2. Circe Matt Haig, Viking, $26 Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99 3. The Four Winds 3. The Rose Code Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s, $28.99 Kate Quinn, Morrow, $17.99 ★ 4. The Consequences of Fear 4. The Dutch House Jacqueline Winspear, Harper, $27.99 Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $17 5. The Vanishing Half 5. Later Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27 Stephen King, Hard Case Crime, $14.95 6. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue ★ 6. The Book of Longings V.E. Schwab, Tor, $26.99 Sue Monk Kidd, Penguin, $17 7. Hamnet 7. Deacon King Kong Maggie O’Farrell, Knopf, $26.95 James McBride, Riverhead Books, $17 8. The Committed 8. Interior Chinatown Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $27 Charles Yu, Vintage, $16 9. The Lost Apothecary 9. The Overstory Sarah Penner, Park Row, $27.99 Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95 10. We Begin at the End 10. The Sympathizer Chris Whitaker, Holt, $27.99 Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $17 11. The Paris Library ★ 11. The Night Watchman Janet Skeslien Charles, Atria, $28 Louise Erdrich, Harper Perennial, $18 12. Anxious People 12. The House in the Cerulean Sea Fredrik Backman, Atria, $28 TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99 13. The Sanatorium 13. The Glass Hotel Sarah Pearse, Pamela Dorman Books, $27 Emily St. John Mandel, Vintage, $16.95 ★ 14. Eternal 14. Parable of the Sower Lisa Scottoline, Putnam, $28 Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $16.99 15. Win 15. Shuggie Bain Harlan Coben, Grand Central, $29 Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $17 Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across America. Copyright American Booksellers Association. All rights reserved. = Debut.
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