NPR Bestsellers: Week Of May 17, 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	Bring Up The Bodies	Hilary Mantel	1
2	In One Person	John Irving	1
3	Home	Toni Morrison	1
4	Calico Joe	John Grisham	5
5	Sacre Bleu	Christopher Moore	6
6	Deadlocked	Charlaine Harris	2
7	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	64
8	The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection	Alexander McCall Smith	6
9	The Beginner's Goodbye	Anne Tyler	6
10	The Innocent	David Baldacci	4
11	11th Hour	James Patterson and Maxine Paetro	1
12	The Wind Through The Keyhole	Stephen King	3
13	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	30
14	The Shoemaker's Wife	Adriana Trigiani	6
15	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	34

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	The Passage Of Power	Robert A. Caro	2
2	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	3
3	Drift	Rachel Maddow	7
4	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	8
5	I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)	Stephen Colbert and Paul Hildebrand	1
6	Prague Winter	Madeleine Korbel Albright and Bill Woodward	3
7	Are You My Mother?	Alison Bechdel	2
8	Imagine	Jonah Lehrer	8
9	Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	4
10	End This Depression Now!	Paul Krugman	2
11	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	78
12	Quiet	Susan Cain	16
13	This Is How	Augusten Burroughs	1
14	When Women Were Birds	Terry Tempest Williams	1
15	A Natural Woman	Carole King	3

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	6
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	4
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	4
4	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	1
5	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	3
6	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	28
7	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	3
8	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	6
9	The Buddha in the Attic	Julie Otsuka	8
10	The Weird Sisters	Eleanor Brown	14
11	Swamplandia!	Karen Russell	31
12	The Dovekeepers	Alice Hoffman	6
13	The House at Tyneford	Natasha Solomons	19
14	The Family Fang	Kevin Wilson	4
15	The Snowman	Jo Nesbo	4

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	2
2	Bossypants	Tina Fey	19
3	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	48
4	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	3
5	Then Again	Diane Keaton	2
6	Mom	Dave Isay	1
7	Nothing Daunted	Dorothy Wickenden	3
8	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	62
9	Heaven Is for Real	Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent	70
10	Moonwalking With Einstein	Joshua Foer	11
11	Lady Almina And The Real Downton Abbey	Fiona, Countess of Carnarvon	16
12	F In Exams	Richard Benson	48
13	The Happiness Project	Gretchen Rubin	55
14	The Hare With Amber Eyes	Edmund De Waal	38
15	Born To Run	Christopher McDougall	51

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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