NPR Bestsellers: Week Of May 10, 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	Deadlocked	Charlaine Harris	1
2	Calico Joe	John Grisham	4
3	Sacre Bleu	Christopher Moore	5
4	The Wind Through The Keyhole	Stephen King	2
5	The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection	Alexander McCall Smith	5
6	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	29
7	The Innocent	David Baldacci	3
8	The Beginner's Goodbye	Anne Tyler	5
9	The Newlyweds	Nell Freudenberger	1
10	The Shoemaker's Wife	Adriana Trigiani	5
11	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	63
12	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	33
13	The Lifeboat	Charlotte Rogan	4
14	Robert B. Parker's Lullaby	Ace Atkins	1
15	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	32

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	The Passage Of Power	Robert A. Caro	1
2	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	2
3	Drift	Rachel Maddow	6
4	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	7
5	End This Depression Now!	Paul Krugman	1
6	Are You My Mother?	Alison Bechdel	1
7	Prague Winter	Madeleine Korbel Albright and Bill Woodward	2
8	Imagine	Jonah Lehrer	7
9	Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	3
10	The Power of Habit	Charles Duhigg	10
11	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	77
12	Quiet	Susan Cain	15
13	Manhunt	Peter L. Bergen	1
14	The Presidents Club	Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy	3
15	My Cross to Bear	Gregg Allman and Alan Light	1

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	5
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	3
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	3
4	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	2
5	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	2
6	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	27
7	The Buddha in the Attic	Julie Otsuka	7
8	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	5
9	Swamplandia!	Karen Russell	30
10	The Last Boyfriend	Nora Roberts	1
11	The Family Fang	Kevin Wilson	3
12	The Weird Sisters	Eleanor Brown	13
13	The Dovekeepers	Alice Hoffman	5
14	The Snowman	Jo Nesbo	3
15	The House at Tyneford	Natasha Solomons	18

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	1
2	Bossypants	Tina Fey	18
3	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	47
4	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	2
5	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	61
6	The Hare With Amber Eyes	Edmund De Waal	37
7	Moonwalking With Einstein	Joshua Foer	10
8	Heaven Is for Real	Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent	69
9	The Happiness Project	Gretchen Rubin	54
10	Then Again	Diane Keaton	1
11	Lady Almina And The Real Downton Abbey	Fiona, Countess of Carnarvon	15
12	Nothing Daunted	Dorothy Wickenden	2
13	Born To Run	Christopher McDougall	50
14	F In Exams	Richard Benson	47
15	The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	207

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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