NPR Bestsellers: Week Of March 29, 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	23
2	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	57
3	Stay Close	Harlan Coben	1
4	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	27
5	Death Comes To Pemberley	P.D. James	16
6	Lone Wolf	Jodi Picoult	4
7	The Expats	Chris Pavone	3
8	The Marriage Plot	Jeffrey Eugenides	24
9	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	27
10	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	28
11	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	42
12	Carry The One	Carol Anshaw	1
13	11/22/63	Stephen King	20
14	Defending Jacob	William Landay	4
15	What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank	Nathan Englander	6

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Imagine	Jonah Lehrer	1
2	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	1
3	The Power of Habit	Charles Duhigg	4
4	Some Assembly Required	Anne Lamott and Sam Lamott	1
5	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	71
6	Quiet	Susan Cain	9
7	The Blood Sugar Solution	Mark Hyman, M.D.	1
8	Revelations	Elaine H. Pagels	3
9	Steve Jobs	Walter Isaacson	22
10	Behind The Beautiful Forevers	Katherine Boo	7
11	Bringing Up Bebe	Pamela Druckerman	7
12	Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?	Jeanette Winterson	2
13	Goodnight iPad	Ann Droyd	21
14	American Sniper	Chris Kyle, Scott Mcewen and Jim DeFelice	10
15	Thinking, Fast And Slow	Daniel Kahneman	18

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	21
2	The Weird Sisters	Eleanor Brown	7
3	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest	Stieg Larsson	5
4	The House at Tyneford	Natasha Solomons	12
5	The Buddha in the Attic	Julie Otsuka	1
6	The Help	Kathryn Stockett	51
7	Cutting for Stone	Abraham Verghese	113
8	A Visit From The Goon Squad	Jennifer Egan	53
9	The Sisters Brothers	Patrick deWitt	5
10	Swamplandia!	Karen Russell	24
11	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Stieg Larsson	16
12	The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party	Alexander McCall Smith	3
13	The Art Of Racing In The Rain	Garth Stein	144
14	A Discovery of Witches	Deborah Harkness	13
15	Doc	Mary Doria Russell	3

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Bossypants	Tina Fey	12
2	Lady Almina And The Real Downton Abbey	Fiona, Countess of Carnarvon	9
3	Moonwalking With Einstein	Joshua Foer	4
4	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	55
5	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	41
6	Heaven Is for Real	Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent	63
7	The Happiness Project	Gretchen Rubin	48
8	The Hare With Amber Eyes	Edmund De Waal	31
9	Blood, Bones & Butter	Gabrielle Hamilton	9
10	Lucky Peach Spring 2012	Chris Ying, Peter Meehan, Dave Chang, Brian McMullen and Walter Green	2
11	The Social Animal	David Brooks	12
12	The Magic	Rhonda Byrne	3
13	F In Exams	Richard Benson	41
14	Empire of the Summer Moon	S.C. Gwynne	46
15	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	35

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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