NPR Bestsellers: Week Of May 31, 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	3
2	In One Person	John Irving	3
3	Canada	Richard Ford	1
4	Home	Toni Morrison	3
5	Sacre Bleu	Christopher Moore	8
6	Calico Joe	John Grisham	7
7	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	36
8	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	66
9	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	32
10	Stolen Prey	John Sandford	2
11	Deadlocked	Charlaine Harris	4
12	The Innocent	David Baldacci	6
13	The Wind Through The Keyhole	Stephen King	5
14	The Shoemaker's Wife	Adriana Trigiani	8
15	The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection	Alexander McCall Smith	8

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	The Passage Of Power	Robert A. Caro	4
2	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	5
3	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	10
4	Imagine	Jonah Lehrer	10
5	Drift	Rachel Maddow	9
6	It Worked for Me	Colin Powell and Tony Koltz	1
7	Are You My Mother?	Alison Bechdel	4
8	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	80
9	This Is How	Augusten Burroughs	3
10	I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)	Stephen Colbert and Paul Hildebrand	3
11	End This Depression Now!	Paul Krugman	4
12	Prague Winter	Madeleine Korbel Albright and Bill Woodward	5
13	Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	6
14	My Cross to Bear	Gregg Allman and Alan Light	2
15	Quiet	Susan Cain	18

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	8
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	6
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	6
4	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	3
5	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	5
6	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	5
7	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	30
8	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	8
9	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	8
10	The Buddha in the Attic	Julie Otsuka	10
11	Train Dreams	Denis Johnson	1
12	The Weird Sisters	Eleanor Brown	16
13	Swamplandia!	Karen Russell	33
14	The Family Fang	Kevin Wilson	6
15	The Dovekeepers	Alice Hoffman	8

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	4
2	Bossypants	Tina Fey	21
3	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	5
4	F In Exams	Richard Benson	50
5	The Greater Journey	David McCullough	2
6	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	50
7	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	64
8	The Happiness Project	Gretchen Rubin	57
9	Born To Run	Christopher McDougall	52
10	Nothing Daunted	Dorothy Wickenden	5
11	Steal Like an Artist	Austin Kleon	1
12	Heaven Is for Real	Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent	71
13	The Hare With Amber Eyes	Edmund De Waal	40
14	Then Again	Diane Keaton	3
15	The Psychopath Test	Jon Ronson	2

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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