NPR Bestsellers: Week Of May 16, 2013 : NPR

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A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

Hardcover Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	A Delicate Truth	John Le Carre	1
2	Life After Life	Kate Atkinson	6
3	The Burgess Boys	Elizabeth Strout	7
4	Dead Ever After	Charlaine Harris	1
5	The Woman Upstairs	Claire Messud	2
6	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	48
7	Maya's Notebook	Isabel Allende	3
8	Paris	Edward Rutherfurd	3
9	Z	Therese Anne Fowler	7
10	The Hit	David Baldacci	3
11	The Interestings	Meg Wolitzer	5
12	Silken Prey	John Sandford	1
13	The Flamethrowers	Rachel Kushner	2
14	All That Is	James Salter	6
15	The Round House	Louise Erdrich	29

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls	David Sedaris	3
2	Cooked	Michael Pollan	3
3	Lean In	Sheryl Sandberg	9
4	I Could Pee On This	Francesco Marciuliano	38
5	Mom & Me & Mom	Maya Angelou	5
6	Vader's Little Princess	Jeffrey Brown	3
7	It's All Good	Gwyneth Paltrow	6
8	Bunker Hill	Nathaniel Philbrick	2
9	Gulp	Mary Roach	6
10	Help, Thanks, Wow	Anne Lamott	26
11	My Beloved World	Sonia Sotomayor	17
12	The Drunken Botanist	Amy Stewart	9
13	Waiting To Be Heard	Amanda Knox	2
14	VB6	Mark Bittman and Dean Ornish	2
15	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	22

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	3
2	Beautiful Ruins	Jess Walter	6
3	Where'd You Go, Bernadette	Maria Semple	6
4	The Orphan Master's Son	Adam Johnson	4
5	The Light Between Oceans	M.L. Stedman	6
6	The Art Forger	B. A. Shapiro	2
7	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	57
8	The Yellow Birds	Kevin Powers	2
9	Bring Up The Bodies	Hilary Mantel	1
10	The Orchardist	Amanda Coplin	10
11	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	24
12	Broken Harbor	Tana French	2
13	Istanbul Passage	Joseph Kanon	4
14	The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry	Rachel Joyce	7
15	Phantom	Jo Nesbo	3

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	7
2	Proof Of Heaven	Eben Alexander, M.D.	28
3	Quiet	Susan Cain	15
4	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	3
5	Thinking, Fast And Slow	Daniel Kahneman	6
6	What My Mother Gave Me	Elizabeth Benedict	1
7	Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	10
8	Why Does The World Exist?	Jim Holt	6
9	When Women Were Birds	Terry Tempest Williams	7
10	Escape From Camp 14	Blaine Harden	6
11	Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)	Mindy Kaling	32
12	Midnight In Peking	Paul French	1
13	Bossypants	Tina Fey	69
14	America The Beautiful	Ben Carson, M.D. and Candy Carson	11
15	How To Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting To Kill You	Oatmeal	24

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