1. The Goldfinch Donna Tartt, Little Brown, $30
2. The Book of Life Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95
3. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27
4. The Heist Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99
5. The Silkworm Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling, Mulholland, $28
6. Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty, Amy Einhorn Books, $26.95
7. Lucky Us Amy Bloom, Random House, $26
8. California Edan Lepucki, Little Brown, $26
9. The Vacationers Emma Straub, Riverhead, $26.95
10. The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd, Viking, $27.95
11. Act of War Brad Thor, Atria, $27.99
12. The Queen of the Tearling Erika Johansen, Harper, $26.99
13. One Plus One Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books, $27.95
14. Tom Clancy: Support and Defend Mark Greaney, Putnam Adult, $28.95
15. Mr. Mercedes Stephen King, Scribner, $30
21. Tigerman Nick Harkaway, Knopf, $26.95
FICTION NONFICTION
Other Indie FavoritesHerbie’s Game: A Junior Bender Mystery, by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime, $25) “Amiable burglar Junior Bender is forced to chase down a stolen list of names before everyone on it ends up dead. First to fall is Junior’s mentor and surrogate father, Herbie, who stole the list in the first place. This delightful mystery poses the question: Do we ever really know the people we love, and do we need to know everything in order to love them?” —Lisa Wright, Oblong Books & Music, Millerton, NY
Indie BestsellersHardcover Week of 08.07.14
1. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal Ben Macintyre, Crown, $27
2. Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book Diane Muldrow, Golden Books, $9.99
3. David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $29
4. Hard Choices Hillary Rodham Clinton, S&S, $35
5. Think Like a Freak Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Morrow, $28.99
6. Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty, Belknap Press, $39.95
7. Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $28
8. The Mockingbird Next Door Marja Mills, Penguin Press, $27.95
9. Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Roz Chast, Bloomsbury, $28
10. Flash Boys Michael Lewis, Norton, $27.95
11. Tibetan Peach Pie Tom Robbins, Ecco, $27.99
12. Blood Feud Edward Klein, Regnery, $27.99
13. Carsick John Waters, FSG, $26
14. One Nation Ben Carson, M.D., Candy Carson, Sentinel, $25.95
15. Elephant Company Vicki Croke, Random House, $28
= Debut = On the Rise
★
★
★
A Man Called Ove: A Novel, by Fredrik Backman (Atria, $25) “A Man Called Ove by Swedish blogger and columnist Backman is one of those books you read and then want everyone else to read, too. It is also one of those books where you don’t dare go into detail about the main character, the setting, or the plot because that would ruin the experience for others. Suffice it to say that the man whose name is Ove is a curmudgeon. He’s grumpy. He’s cantankerous. And he is a delight! Long may he harrumph!” —Rene Kirkpatrick, Eagle Harbor Book Company, Bainbridge Island, WA
Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across America. Copyright American Booksellers Association. All rights reserved.
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= On the Rise
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1. Gone Girl Gillian Flynn, Broadway, $15
2. The Signature of All Things Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $17
3. Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline, Morrow, $14.99
4. The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan, Ecco, $16.99
5. And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $16
6. The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $14.99
7. The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri, Vintage, $15.95
8. Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $15.95
9. The Silver Star Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $16
10. The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion, S&S, $15.99
11. The Cuckoo’s Calling Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling, Mulholland, $18
12. The Girl You Left Behind Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16
13. How the Light Gets In Louise Penny, Minotaur, $15.99
14. Police Jo Nesbø, Vintage, $14.95
15. Where’d You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple, Back Bay, $14.99
25. Doomed Chuck Palahniuk, Anchor, $14.95
Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across America. Copyright American Booksellers Association. All rights reserved.
1. A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99 2. Inferno Dan Brown, Anchor, $9.99 3. A Dance With Dragons George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99 4. Outlander Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $9.99 5. A Clash of Kings George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99 6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $6.99 7. A Storm of Swords George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99 8. The Racketeer John Grisham, Dell, $9.99 9. King and Maxwell David Baldacci, Grand Central, $10 10. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee, Grand Central, $8.99
1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $16
2. The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17
3. Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls David Sedaris, Back Bay, $17
4. Wild Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95
5. Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo, Random House, $16
6. Orange Is the New Black Piper Kerman, Spiegel & Grau, $16
7. The Power of Habit Charles Duhigg, Random House, $16
8. One Summer: America, 1927 Bill Bryson, Anchor, $16.95
9. Heaven Is for Real Todd Burpo, Thomas Nelson, $16.99
10. Brain on Fire Susannah Cahalan, S&S, $16
11. The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way Amanda Ripley, S&S, $15.99
12. Lawrence in Arabia Scott Anderson, Anchor, $17.95
13. Outliers Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $16.99
14. Quiet Susan Cain, Broadway, $16
15. Thinking in Numbers Daniel Tammet, Back Bay, $16
FICTION NONFICTION
Indie BestsellersPaperback Week of 08.07.14
MASS MARKET
★
Another Indie FavoriteThis Is the Water: A Novel, by Yannick Murphy (Harper Perennial, $14.99) “The first thing you notice about Murphy’s new novel is the hypnotic cadence of her prose. It flows like the water, like the young swimmers and their families around whom the story turns. This book is at once a suspenseful murder mystery as well as a meditation on what it means to love fiercely as a parent and what it is like to be female in a body starting to show its age, longing for passion and desire that seems long gone. Murphy has the knack of finding the essence of the thousands of tiny moments and inner thoughts that fill our days, and writes about them with a clarity that makes the reader say ‘Yes, yes, yes!’” —Susan Petrone, Loganberry Books, Shaker Heights, OH
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= Debut = On the Rise
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★
1
. Go
od
nigh
t Mo
on
Margaret W
ise Brown,
Clem
ent Hurd (Illus.), H
arper, $8.99
2. T
he
Day
the
Cray
on
s Qu
it
D
rew D
aywalt, O
liver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel,
$17.99
3. F
roze
n (L
ittle G
old
en
Bo
ok
)
V
ictoria Saxon, Grace Lee (Illus.), R
andom
House/D
isney, $3.99
4. T
he
Ve
ry H
un
gry
Cate
rpilla
r
Eric C
arle, Putnam, $10.99
5
. Wh
ere
’s Wald
o?
Martin H
andford, Candlew
ick, $7.99
6. A
Day
in th
e S
un
Frank Berrios, RH
Disney (Illus.), R
andom
House/D
isney, $3.99
7. F
roze
n: A
nn
a’s Act o
f Lo
ve/E
lsa’s
Icy
Magic
Lisa Marsoli, Joey C
hou (Illus.), Random
H
ouse/Disney, $4.99
8
. Pat th
e B
un
ny
Dorothy K
unhardt, Golden, $9.99
9
. Fro
zen
(Big G
old
en
Bo
ok
)
Bill Scollon, D
isney Storybook Artists (Illus.),
Random
House/D
isney, $9.99
10
. Th
e P
igeo
n N
ee
ds a B
ath!
Mo W
illems, D
isney Press, $16.99
11
. Go
od
Nigh
t, Go
rilla
Peggy R
athmann, Putnam
, $7.99
12
. Blu
eb
errie
s for S
al
R
obert McC
loskey, Puffin, $7.99
13
. On
the
Nigh
t Yo
u W
ere
Bo
rn
N
ancy Tillm
an, Feiwel &
Friends, $7.99
14
. Wh
ere
’s Wald
o? T
he
To
tally
Esse
ntial T
ravel C
olle
ction
Martin H
andford, Candlew
ick, $14.99
15
. Wh
ere
the
Wild
Th
ings A
re
M
aurice Sendak, Harper, $18.99
Children’s Books Indie Bestsellers
Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across Am
erica. Copyright A
merican Booksellers A
ssociation. All rights reserved.
CHILDREN’S INTEREST
ILLUSTRATED
FICTION SERIES
Week of 08.07.14
All Fiction Series titles are hardcover and paperback unless noted.
1
. Th
e F
au
lt in O
ur S
tars
John Green, D
utton, $17.99
2
. If I Stay
Gayle Form
an, Speak, $10.99
3
. Th
e G
iver
Lois Lowry, Laurel-Leaf, $6.99
4
. Lo
ok
ing fo
r Alask
a
John G
reen, Speak, $9.99
5
. Pap
er T
ow
ns
John Green, Speak, $9.99
6
. An
Ab
un
dan
ce o
f Kath
erin
es
John Green, Speak, $9.99
7. W
on
de
r
R
.J. Palacio, Knopf, $15.99
8
. Min
ecra
ft: Esse
ntial H
an
db
oo
k
Scholastic, $7.99
9
. Min
ecra
ft: Re
dsto
ne
Han
db
oo
k
Scholastic, $7.99
1
0. T
he
Bo
ok
Th
ief
Markus Z
usak, Knopf, $12.99
1
1. W
he
re S
he
We
nt
Gayle Form
an, Speak, $10.99
1
2. E
lean
or &
Park
Rainbow
Row
ell, St. Martin’s G
riffin, $18.99
1
3. W
ill Gray
son
, Will G
rayso
n
John G
reen, David Levithan, Speak, $9.99
1
4. F
roze
n: T
he
Jun
ior N
ove
lization
Random
House/D
isney, $4.99
1
5. W
e W
ere
Lia
rs
E. Lockhart, D
elacorte, $17.99
1
. Dive
rgen
t
Veronica R
oth, Katherine Tegen Books
2
. Magic T
ree
Ho
use
Mary Pope O
sborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.),
Random
House
3
. Th
e M
aze R
un
ne
r
Jam
es Dashner, D
elacorte
4. T
he
Lan
d o
f Sto
ries
Chris C
olfer, Little Brown
5
. Ivy &
Be
an
A
nnie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.),
C
hronicle
6.
Sta
r Wars: Je
di A
cade
my
Jeffrey Brown, Scholastic (hardcover)
Ne
w in
Series: R
eturn
of th
e
Pad
awan
7
. Dia
ry o
f a Wim
py K
id
Jeff Kinney, A
mulet (hardcover)
8
. Mid
dle
Sch
oo
l
Jam
es Patterson, Chris Tebbetts, Laura Park
(Illus.), Little Brown
9
. Miss P
ere
grin
e’s P
ecu
liar C
hild
ren
R
ansom R
iggs, Quirk
1
0. H
arry
Po
tter
J.K. Row
ling, Scholastic/Arthur A
. Levine Books
= D
ebut
★
An
oth
er In
die
Favo
rite fo
r Age
s 9 to
12
T
he C
astle Beh
ind
Th
orn
s, by M
errie Haskell
(Kath
erine T
egen B
oo
ks, $
16.99)“T
he castle has always been there, but it is
hidden behind a hedge of impenetrable raspberry
thorns. No one can even get close because the
thorns destroy everything within reach, so you
can imagine Sand’s am
azement w
hen he wakes
up inside it. Everything has been destroyed, but Sand is nothing if not resourceful and he slow
ly starts m
ending what he can in the broken castle.
He finds the body of Perrotte on the floor of the
crypt and carefully puts her back in her tomb.
Perrotte suddenly comes back to life and together
they work to repair the castle and figure a w
ay out of it. The story is
cloaked in fantasy and magic that add to its appeal, but the lessons it
teaches about relationships, forgiveness, and sometim
es just doing what
needs to be done are universal.”—
Janice H
un
sche, K
aleido
sauru
s Bo
oks, F
ishers, IN
1. The Goldfinch Donna Tartt, Little Brown, $30
2. The Book of Life Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95
3. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27
4. The Heist Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99
5. The Silkworm Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling, Mulholland, $28
6. Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty, Amy Einhorn Books, $26.95
7. Lucky Us Amy Bloom, Random House, $26
8. California Edan Lepucki, Little Brown, $26
9. The Vacationers Emma Straub, Riverhead, $26.95
10. The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd, Viking, $27.95
11. Act of War Brad Thor, Atria, $27.99
12. The Queen of the Tearling Erika Johansen, Harper, $26.99
13. One Plus One Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books, $27.95
14. Tom Clancy: Support and Defend Mark Greaney, Putnam Adult, $28.95
15. Mr. Mercedes Stephen King, Scribner, $30
21. Tigerman Nick Harkaway, Knopf, $26.95
1. Gone Girl Gillian Flynn, Broadway, $15
2. The Signature of All Things Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $17
3. Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline, Morrow, $14.99
4. The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan, Ecco, $16.99
5. And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, $16
6. The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $14.99
7. The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri, Vintage, $15.95
8. Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $15.95
9. The Silver Star Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $16
10. The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion, S&S, $15.99
11. The Cuckoo’s Calling Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling, Mulholland, $18
12. The Girl You Left Behind Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16
13. How the Light Gets In Louise Penny, Minotaur, $15.99
14. Police Jo Nesbø, Vintage, $14.95
15. Where’d You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple, Back Bay, $14.99
25. Doomed Chuck Palahniuk, Anchor, $14.95
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★
Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across America. Copyright American Booksellers Association. All rights reserved.
HARDCOVER PAPERBACK
Indie BestsellersFiction Week of 08.07.14
= Debut = On the Rise
= Debut = On the Rise
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1. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal Ben Macintyre, Crown, $27
2. Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book Diane Muldrow, Golden Books, $9.99
3. David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $29
4. Hard Choices Hillary Rodham Clinton, S&S, $35
5. Think Like a Freak Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Morrow, $28.99
6. Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty, Belknap Press, $39.95
7. Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $28
8. The Mockingbird Next Door Marja Mills, Penguin Press, $27.95
9. Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Roz Chast, Bloomsbury, $28
10. Flash Boys Michael Lewis, Norton, $27.95
11. Tibetan Peach Pie Tom Robbins, Ecco, $27.99
12. Blood Feud Edward Klein, Regnery, $27.99
13. Carsick John Waters, FSG, $26
14. One Nation Ben Carson, M.D., Candy Carson, Sentinel, $25.95
15. Elephant Company Vicki Croke, Random House, $28
1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $16
2. The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17
3. Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls David Sedaris, Back Bay, $17
4. Wild Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95
5. Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo, Random House, $16
6. Orange Is the New Black Piper Kerman, Spiegel & Grau, $16
7. The Power of Habit Charles Duhigg, Random House, $16
8. One Summer: America, 1927 Bill Bryson, Anchor, $16.95
9. Heaven Is for Real Todd Burpo, Thomas Nelson, $16.99
10. Brain on Fire Susannah Cahalan, S&S, $16
11. The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way Amanda Ripley, S&S, $15.99
12. Lawrence in Arabia Scott Anderson, Anchor, $17.95
13. Outliers Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $16.99
14. Quiet Susan Cain, Broadway, $16
15. Thinking in Numbers Daniel Tammet, Back Bay, $16
Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across America. Copyright American Booksellers Association. All rights reserved.
HARDCOVER PAPERBACK
Indie BestsellersNonfiction Week of 08.07.14
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