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Indie Bestsellers Week of 07.26.12

HardcoverFICTION NONFICTION 1. Gone Girl 1. Wild Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25 Cheryl Strayed, Knopf, $25.95 ★ 2. The Fallen Angel 2. Unbroken Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99 Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27 3. Shadow of Night 3. Imagine Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95 Jonah Lehrer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 4. Steve Jobs 4. A Hologram for the King Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35 Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s, $25 5. Darth Vader and Son 5. Mission to Paris Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, $14.95 Alan Furst, Random House, $27 6. The Amateur 6. Canada Edward Klein, Regnery, $27.95 Richard Ford, Ecco, $27.99 7. Quiet ★ 7. Creole Belle Susan Cain, Crown, $26 James Lee Burke, S&S, $27.99 8. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake 8. Beautiful Ruins Anna Quindlen, Random House, $26 Jess Walter, Harper, $25.99 9. The Presidents Club Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy, S&S, $32.50 9. The Age of Miracles Karen Thompson Walker, Random House, $26 ★ 10. Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety Daniel Smith, S&S, $25 10. The Prisoner of Heaven Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Harper, $25.99 11. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson ★ 11. The Sandcastle Girls Robert A. Caro, Knopf, $35 Chris Bohjalian, Doubleday, $25.95 12. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened 12. Bring Up the Bodies Jenny Lawson, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $25.95 Hilary Mantel, Holt, $28 13. Go the F**k to Sleep Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (Illus.), Akashic, $14.95 13. A Dance With Dragons George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $35 14. Killing Lincoln Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28 14. Gold 15. The Power of Habit Chris Cleave, S&S, $27 Charles Duhigg, Random House, $28 15. In One Person 20. Dream Team John Irving, S&S, $28 Jack McCallum, Ballantine, $28

Other Indie Favorites Into the Darkest Corner: A Novel, by Elizabeth Some Kind of Peace, by Camilla Grebe and Asa Haynes (Harper, $25.99) “Catherine Bailey was a vibrant and Traff, Paul Norlen (Trans.) (Free Press, $24) “The outgoing young woman until she met Lee — the one she thought was her intensity of Scandinavian crime fiction, its intimacy and human scale, is dream man. After a devastatingly abusive relationship that almost killed her, impressively on display in this novel by Swedish sisters Grebe and Traff. I often she became a complete introvert, driven by OCD and scarred by PTSD. Just feel freezing when reading a thriller from the North, but from the very first as she begins a new relationship with her wonderfully understanding neighbor page, this compelling fiction paints a warm and lively portrait of a Swedish and makes progress dealing with her compulsions, she starts seeing Lee out summer, its beauty and lighthearted spirit, its customary celebrations — so of the corner of her eye and things in her apartment start feeling out of place. ironic a background for a dark, wrenching, and compelling story.” Has he returned, or is she imagining things? A brilliant and exciting thriller!” — Barbara Peters, The Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, AZ —Nichole McCown, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

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PaperbackFICTION NONFICTION

1. Fifty Shades of Grey 1. In the Garden of Beasts E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95 Erik Larson, Broadway, $16 2. Fifty Shades Darker 2. Bossypants E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95 Tina Fey, Reagan Arthur Books, $15.99 3. Fifty Shades Freed 3. I Remember Nothing E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95 Nora Ephron, Vintage, $14 4. Cocktail Hour Under the 4. The Night Circus Tree of Forgetfulness Erin Morgenstern, Anchor, $15 Alexandra Fuller, Penguin, $15 5. State of Wonder 5. I Feel Bad About My Neck Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $15.99 Nora Ephron, Vintage, $14 6. Rules of Civility 6. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Amor Towles, Penguin, $16 Rebecca Skloot, Broadway, $16 7. The Sense of an Ending 7. Turn Right at Machu Picchu Julian Barnes, Vintage, $14.95 Mark Adams, Plume, $16 8. The Art of Fielding ★ 8. To Heaven and Back: A Doctor’s Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Chad Harbach, Back Bay, $14.99 Heaven, Angels, and Life Again 9. Maine Mary C. Neal, Waterbrook, $14.99 J.Courtney Sullivan, Vintage, $15.95 9. Tiny Beautiful Things 10. Wolf Hall Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $14.95 Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16 10. Unlikely Friendships 11. The Tiger’s Wife Jennifer S. Holland, Workman, $13.95 Téa Obreht, Random House, $15 11. Outliers Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $16.99 12. The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Ballantine, $15 12. Steal Like an Artist Austin Kleon, Workman, $10.95 13. A Discovery of Witches 13. F in Exams Deborah Harkness, Penguin, $16 Richard Benson, Chronicle, $9.95 14. Caleb’s Crossing 14. The Eighty-Dollar Champion Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $16 Elizabeth Letts, Ballantine, $16 15. The Cat’s Table 15. The Devil in the White City Michael Ondaatje, Vintage, $15 Erik Larson, Vintage, $15.95 16. Bared to You 17. How to Be a Woman Sylvia Day, Berkley, $15 Caitlin Moran, Harper Perennial, $15.99

MASS MARKET

1. A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99 Another Indie Favorite 2. A Clash of Kings George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99 A Good Hard Look: A Novel of Flannery 3. A Storm of Swords George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99 O’Connor, by Ann Napolitano (Penguin, $16) “Although Flannery O’Connor’s literary and personal history has been well 4. A Feast for Crows George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99 examined, Napolitano shows an exquisite ability to capture the essence 5. The Litigators John Grisham, Dell, $9.99 of mid-20th century Georgia and the fictional characters that O’Connor 6. The Hobbit created. Some novelists might have been tempted to emulate her Southern J.R.R. Tolkien, Ballantine, $8.99 Gothic style; Napolitano treads lightly in this field, letting tragedy work 7. The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger, Warner, $6.99 where it best fits. She captures both the joys and weaknesses of O’Connor’s 8. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee, Warner, $7.99 characters in a parallel to the beloved author’s belief that it is difficult to 9. 1984 George Orwell, Signet, $9.99 distinguish between blessings and curses. A Good Hard Look is an artful novel that is as electrifying as O’Connor’s peacocks and as magnetic as her life.” 10. Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card, Tor, $6.99 —Bill Threlfall, Tattered Cover Book Store, Denver, CO

Children’sChildren’s Interest Books ILLUSTRATEd FICTION SERIES 1. The Book Thief 1. Goodnight Moon 1. The Hunger Games Markus Zusak, Knopf, $12.99 Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Harper, $8.99 2. The Fault in Our Stars 2. Magic Tree House Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca John Green, Dutton, $17.99 2. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (Illus.), Random House ★ 3. The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell William Joyce, Atheneum, $17.99 3. Divergent Series Veronica Roth, Katherine Tegen Books Chris Colfer, Little Brown, $17.99 3. Where’s Waldo? 4. The Phantom Tollbooth Martin Handford, Candlewick, $7.99 4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney, Amulet (hardcover) Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illus.), Yearling, $6.99 4. Where the Wild Things Are 5. Wonder Maurice Sendak, Harper, $17.95 5. Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer, Hyperion R.J. Palacio, Knopf, $15.99 5. Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction 6. The Kane Chronicles 6. The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book Site Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld Rick Riordan, Hyperion Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95 (Illus.), Chronicle, $16.99 7. Ivy & Bean 7. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 6. Pat the Bunny Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $17.99 Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden, $9.99 (Illus.), Chronicle 8. Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth 7. The Very Hungry Caterpillar 8. Dork Diaries Jane O’Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99 Rachel Renee Russell, Aladdin (hardcover) Harper, $9.99 8. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! 9. Harry Potter 9. Seraphina Dr. Seuss, Random House, $17.99 J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/ Arthur A. Levine Books Rachel Hartman, Random House, $17.99 9. I Want My Hat Back 10. The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel 10. Between the Lines Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $15.99 Michael Scott, Delacorte Jodi Picoult, Samantha Van Leer, Emily Bestler 10. Where’s Waldo Now? Books, $19.99 Martin Handford, Candlewick, $7.99 All Fiction Series titles are hardcover and paperback unless noted. 11. Chomp 11. Good Night, Gorilla Another Indie Favorite for Ages 9 to 12 Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $16.99 Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $7.99 A Greyhound of a Girl, by Roddy Doyle 12. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- 12. Blueberries for Sal (Amulet, $16.95) “One day as 12-year-old Mary walks home from school, she meets a mysterious Time Indian Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $7.99 Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.), Little Brown, $11.99 woman who seems to appear out of nowhere. The 13. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do woman looks young, but seems old, and her name 13. Big Nate Fun Blaster You See? is Tansey, which, as it happens, is the name of Mary’s Lincoln Peirce, Harper, $10.99 Bill Martin, Eric Carle (Illus.), Holt, $7.95 long-dead great-grandmother. Tansey says she has a message for Mary’s granny. And so, impossibly, four 14. Dare to Dream: Life as One Direction 14. Ladybug Girl and Bingo generations of women embark on a midnight road One Direction, Harper, $12.99 Jacky Davis, David Soman (Illus.), Dial, $16.99 trip to revisit the farm that made them who they are. Doyle’s delightful story is charming, witty, and poignant, a surprisingly 15. Looking for Alaska 15. Make Way for Ducklings fresh generational tale that mothers and daughters will want to share!” John Green, Puffin, $8.99 Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $7.99 —Megan Graves, Hooray for Books!, Alexandria, VA

HARDCOVER PAPERBACK

★ 1. Gone Girl 1. Fifty Shades of Grey Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25 E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95 2. The Fallen Angel 2. Fifty Shades Darker Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99 E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95 3. Shadow of Night 3. Fifty Shades Freed Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95 E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95 4. A Hologram for the King 4. The Night Circus Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s, $25 Erin Morgenstern, Anchor, $15 5. Mission to Paris 5. State of Wonder Alan Furst, Random House, $27 Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $15.99 6. Canada 6. Rules of Civility Richard Ford, Ecco, $27.99 Amor Towles, Penguin, $16 ★ 7. Creole Belle 7. The Sense of an Ending James Lee Burke, S&S, $27.99 Julian Barnes, Vintage, $14.95 8. The Art of Fielding 8. Beautiful Ruins Chad Harbach, Back Bay, $14.99 Jess Walter, Harper, $25.99 9. Maine 9. The Age of Miracles J.Courtney Sullivan, Vintage, $15.95 Karen Thompson Walker, Random House, $26 10. Wolf Hall 10. The Prisoner of Heaven Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16 Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Harper, $25.99 11. The Tiger’s Wife ★ 11. The Sandcastle Girls Téa Obreht, Random House, $15 Chris Bohjalian, Doubleday, $25.95 12. The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Ballantine, $15 12. Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel, Holt, $28 13. A Discovery of Witches Deborah Harkness, Penguin, $16 13. A Dance With Dragons 14. Caleb’s Crossing George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $35 Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $16 14. Gold 15. The Cat’s Table Chris Cleave, S&S, $27 Michael Ondaatje, Vintage, $15 15. In One Person 16. Bared to You John Irving, S&S, $28 Sylvia Day, Berkley, $15

HARDCOVER PAPERBACK

1. Wild 1. In the Garden of Beasts Cheryl Strayed, Knopf, $25.95 Erik Larson, Broadway, $16 2. Unbroken 2. Bossypants Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27 Tina Fey, Reagan Arthur Books, $15.99 3. Imagine 3. I Remember Nothing Jonah Lehrer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 Nora Ephron, Vintage, $14 4. Steve Jobs 4. Cocktail Hour Under the Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35 Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller, Penguin, $15 5. Darth Vader and Son Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, $14.95 5. I Feel Bad About My Neck Nora Ephron, Vintage, $14 6. The Amateur Edward Klein, Regnery, $27.95 6. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot, Broadway, $16 7. Quiet Susan Cain, Crown, $26 7. Turn Right at Machu Picchu Mark Adams, Plume, $16 8. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake Anna Quindlen, Random House, $26 ★ 8. To Heaven and Back: A Doctor’s Extraordinary Account of Her Death, 9. The Presidents Club Heaven, Angels, and Life Again Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy, S&S, $32.50 Mary C. Neal, Waterbrook, $14.99 ★ 10. Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety 9. Tiny Beautiful Things Daniel Smith, S&S, $25 Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $14.95 11. The Passage of Power: The Years of 10. Unlikely Friendships Lyndon Johnson Jennifer S. Holland, Workman, $13.95 Robert A. Caro, Knopf, $35 11. Outliers Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $16.99 12. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened Jenny Lawson, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $25.95 12. Steal Like an Artist Austin Kleon, Workman, $10.95 13. Go the F**k to Sleep Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (Illus.), Akashic, $14.95 13. F in Exams Richard Benson, Chronicle, $9.95 14. Killing Lincoln 14. The Eighty-Dollar Champion Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28 Elizabeth Letts, Ballantine, $16 15. The Power of Habit 15. The Devil in the White City Charles Duhigg, Random House, $28 Erik Larson, Vintage, $15.95 20. Dream Team 17. How to Be a Woman Jack McCallum, Ballantine, $28 Caitlin Moran, Harper Perennial, $15.99