Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For April 28
Compiled from weekly surveys of close to 500 independent bookstores nationwide in collaboration with the American Booksellers Association. This list reflects sales ending April 24.

1. The Tiger's Wife
By Tea Obreht
7 weeks on list
Hardcover, 352pp, $25.00
Random House
Pub Date: Mar. 8, 2011

2. The Land of Painted Caves
By Jean M. Auel
4 weeks on list
Hardcover, 768pp, $30.00
Crown
Pub Date: Mar. 29, 2011

3. The Pale King
By David Foster Wallace
4 weeks on list
Hardcover, 560pp, $27.99
Little, Brown and Company
Pub Date: Apr. 1, 2011

4. The Paris Wife
By Paula Mclain
9 weeks on list
Hardcover, 336pp, $25.00
Ballantine Books
Pub Date: Feb. 22, 2011

5. The Fifth Witness
By Michael Connelly
3 weeks on list
Hardcover, 448pp, $27.99
Little, Brown and Company
Pub Date: Apr. 5, 2011

6. She Walks in Beauty
A Woman's Journey Through Poems
By Caroline Kennedy
3 weeks on list
Hardcover, 352pp, $24.99
Hyperion
Pub Date: Apr. 1, 2011

7. Horoscopes for the Dead
Poems
By Billy Collins
3 weeks on list
Hardcover, 128pp, $24.00
Random House
Pub Date: Apr. 5, 2011

8. The Sixth Man
By David Baldacci
1 week on list
Hardcover, 432pp, $27.99
Grand Central Publishing
Pub Date: Apr. 19, 2011

9. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel
By Alexander Mccall Smith
5 weeks on list
Hardcover, 224pp, $24.95
Pantheon
Pub Date: Mar. 22, 2011

10. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
By Stieg Larsson
48 weeks on list
Hardcover, 576pp, $27.95
Knopf
Pub Date: May. 25, 2010

11. The Troubled Man
By Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson
4 weeks on list
Hardcover, 384pp, $26.95
Knopf
Pub Date: Mar. 29, 2011

12. Drawing Conclusions
By Donna Leon
2 weeks on list
Hardcover, 260pp, $24.00
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub Date: Apr. 1, 2011

13. Room
By Emma Donoghue
33 weeks on list
Hardcover, 336pp, $24.99
Little, Brown and Company
Pub Date: Sep. 1, 2010

14. Started Early, Took My Dog
By Kate Atkinson
5 weeks on list
Hardcover, 384pp, $24.99
Reagan Arthur Books
Pub Date: Mar. 1, 2011

15. A Lesson in Secrets
A Maisie Dobbs Novel
By Jacqueline Winspear
5 weeks on list
Hardcover, 336pp, $25.99
Harper
Pub Date: Apr. 1, 2011
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