NPR Bestsellers: Week Of May 24, 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	In One Person	John Irving	2
2	Bring Up The Bodies	Hilary Mantel	2
3	Home	Toni Morrison	2
4	Calico Joe	John Grisham	6
5	Sacre Bleu	Christopher Moore	7
6	Deadlocked	Charlaine Harris	3
7	Stolen Prey	John Sandford	1
8	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	35
9	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	31
10	The Wind Through The Keyhole	Stephen King	4
11	The Innocent	David Baldacci	5
12	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	65
13	The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection	Alexander McCall Smith	7
14	The Shoemaker's Wife	Adriana Trigiani	7
15	The Beginner's Goodbye	Anne Tyler	7

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	The Passage Of Power	Robert A. Caro	3
2	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	4
3	Drift	Rachel Maddow	8
4	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	9
5	I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)	Stephen Colbert and Paul Hildebrand	2
6	Are You My Mother?	Alison Bechdel	3
7	Imagine	Jonah Lehrer	9
8	Prague Winter	Madeleine Korbel Albright and Bill Woodward	4
9	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	79
10	End This Depression Now!	Paul Krugman	3
11	This Is How	Augusten Burroughs	2
12	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	2
13	Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	5
14	The Art of Intelligence	Henry A. Crumpton	1
15	Quiet	Susan Cain	17

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	7
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	5
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	5
4	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	2
5	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	4
6	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	4
7	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	29
8	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	7
9	The Buddha in the Attic	Julie Otsuka	9
10	The Weird Sisters	Eleanor Brown	15
11	Swamplandia!	Karen Russell	32
12	The Dovekeepers	Alice Hoffman	7
13	The Family Fang	Kevin Wilson	5
14	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	7
15	The House at Tyneford	Natasha Solomons	20

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	3
2	Bossypants	Tina Fey	20
3	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	4
4	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	49
5	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	63
6	F In Exams	Richard Benson	49
7	The Greater Journey	David McCullough	1
8	Nothing Daunted	Dorothy Wickenden	4
9	The Psychopath Test	Jon Ronson	1
10	Lady Almina And The Real Downton Abbey	Fiona, Countess of Carnarvon	17
11	Moonwalking With Einstein	Joshua Foer	12
12	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	40
13	The Hare With Amber Eyes	Edmund De Waal	39
14	Just Kids	Patti Smith	76
15	The Happiness Project	Gretchen Rubin	56

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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