NPR Bestsellers: Week Of March 8, 2012 : 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	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	20
2	Death Comes To Pemberley	P.D. James	13
3	Lone Wolf	Jodi Picoult	1
4	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	24
5	What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank	Nathan Englander	3
6	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	54
7	Kill Shot	Vince Flynn	4
8	11/22/63	Stephen King	17
9	The Marriage Plot	Jeffrey Eugenides	21
10	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	39
11	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	25
12	The Wolf Gift	Anne Rice	3
13	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	25
14	The House I Loved	Tatiana De Rosnay	2
15	Defending Jacob	William Landay	3

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Behind The Beautiful Forevers	Katherine Boo	4
2	Steve Jobs	Walter Isaacson	19
3	Quiet	Susan Cain	6
4	Thinking, Fast And Slow	Daniel Kahneman	15
5	Bringing Up Bebe	Pamela Druckerman	4
6	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	68
7	The End of Illness	David B. Agus, M.D.	7
8	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	43
9	American Sniper	Chris Kyle, Scott Mcewen and Jim DeFelice	7
10	The Power of Habit	Charles Duhigg	1
11	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	23
12	The Science of Yoga	William J. Broad	4
13	Once Upon A Secret	Mimi Alford	4
14	Go the F- - - to Sleep	Adam Mansbach	39
15	Goodnight iPad	Ann Droyd	18

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	18
2	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest	Stieg Larsson	2
3	The Weird Sisters	Eleanor Brown	4
4	The Help	Kathryn Stockett	48
5	The House at Tyneford	Natasha Solomons	9
6	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	Jonathan Safran Foer	10
7	A Visit From The Goon Squad	Jennifer Egan	50
8	Swamplandia!	Karen Russell	21
9	Cutting for Stone	Abraham Verghese	110
10	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy	John le Carre	10
11	The Sisters Brothers	Patrick deWitt	3
12	Dreams of Joy	Lisa See	4
13	The Art Of Racing In The Rain	Garth Stein	141
14	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Stieg Larsson	15
15	A Discovery of Witches	Deborah Harkness	10

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Bossypants	Tina Fey	9
2	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	38
3	Lady Almina And The Real Downton Abbey	Fiona, Countess of Carnarvon	6
4	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	52
5	Moonwalking With Einstein	Joshua Foer	1
6	Heaven Is for Real	Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent	60
7	Blood, Bones & Butter	Gabrielle Hamilton	6
8	The Happiness Project	Gretchen Rubin	45
9	The Social Animal	David Brooks	9
10	The Hare With Amber Eyes	Edmund De Waal	28
11	Cleopatra	Stacy Schiff	26
12	The Warmth Of Other Suns	Isabel Wilkerson	18
13	Just Kids	Patti Smith	70
14	Empire of the Summer Moon	S.C. Gwynne	43
15	Born To Run	Christopher McDougall	45

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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