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1. The Tiger’s Wife Téa Obreht, Random House, $25 2. The Paris Wife Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25 3. Sing You Home Jodi Picoult, Atria, $28 4. The Wise Man’s Fear Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $29.95 5. A Discovery of Witches Deborah Harkness,Viking, $28.95 6. Swamplandia! Karen Russell, Knopf, $24.95 7. Room Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $24.99 8. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $27.95 9. The Help Kathryn Stockett,Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95 10. When the Killing’s Done T.C. Boyle,Viking, $26.95 11. Minding Frankie Maeve Binchy, Knopf, $26.95 12. Freedom Jonathan Franzen, FSG, $28 13. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus.), Little Brown, $21.99 14. West of Here Jonathan Evison, Algonquin, $24.95 15. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing Jasper Fforde,Viking, $25.95 16. The Jungle Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul, Putnam Adult, $27.95 FICTION NONFICTION Other Indie Favorites The Other Life, by Ellen Meister (Putnam, $24.95) “Quinn’s artistic mother took her own life, leaving Quinn wondering why. To help her cope on this journey, Quinn has the ability to travel between two parallel worlds via hidden portals. One world is a safe, suburban life with her husband, Lewis, and their young son Isaac on Long Island, albeit a world filled with the reality of her mother’s death. The other is a dramatic life in New York City with neurotic Eugene, a life in which her mother is still very much alive.” —Annie Philbrick, Bank Square Books, Mystic, CT Indie Bestsellers Hardcover Week of 03.17.11 1. The Social Animal:The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement David Brooks, Random House, $27 2. Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27 3. Moonwalking With Einstein:The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Joshua Foer, Penguin Press, $26.95 4. Cleopatra Stacy Schiff, Little Brown, $29.99 5. Blood, Bones & Butter Gabrielle Hamilton, Random House 6. The Information James Gleick, Pantheon, $29.95 7. Life Keith Richards, Little Brown, $29.99 8. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Amy Chua, Penguin Press, $25.95 9. Townie Andre Dubus III, Norton, $25.95 10. A Widow’s Story Joyce Carol Oates, Ecco, $27.99 11. Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life Karen Armstrong, Knopf, $22.95 12. And Furthermore Judi Dench, St. Martin’s, $26.99 13. Moby-Duck:The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them Donovan Hohn,Viking, $27.95 14. Autobiography of Mark Twain Mark Twain, University of California Press, $34.95 15. The Money Class: Learn to Create Your New American Dream Suze Orman, Spiegel & Grau, $26 16. The Company We Keep Robert Baer, Dayna Baer, Crown Publishing Group, $26 ★ ★ ★ = Debut = On the Rise Deep Future:The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth, by Curt Stager (Thomas Dunne Books, $25.99) “Stager, a scientist who drills down into the earth and reads what the layers tell us about the history of the environment and climate change, uses that information to speculate on what the future might be like.The results are not as predictable as one might think. Neither the ardent environmentalists who see the end of life on the horizon, nor the naysayers who think the whole idea of climate change is bunk, will be vindicated. .” —Jonathon Welch,Talking Leaves Inc, Buffalo, NY Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across America. Copyright American Booksellers Association. All rights reserved. ★ ★ ★
