NPR Bestsellers: Week Of June 7, 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	4
2	In One Person	John Irving	4
3	Canada	Richard Ford	2
4	Home	Toni Morrison	4
5	Istanbul Passage	Joseph Kanon	1
6	Sacre Bleu	Christopher Moore	9
7	Calico Joe	John Grisham	8
8	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	37
9	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	67
10	A Blaze of Glory	Jeff Shaara	1
11	The Shoemaker's Wife	Adriana Trigiani	9
12	Deadlocked	Charlaine Harris	5
13	The Yard	Alex Grecian	1
14	Stolen Prey	John Sandford	3
15	The Innocent	David Baldacci	7

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	The Passage Of Power	Robert A. Caro	5
2	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	11
3	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	81
4	American Grown	Michelle Obama	1
5	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	6
6	Imagine	Jonah Lehrer	11
7	Drift	Rachel Maddow	10
8	Cronkite	Douglas Brinkley	1
9	It Worked for Me	Colin Powell and Tony Koltz	2
10	I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)	Stephen Colbert and Paul Hildebrand	4
11	Quiet	Susan Cain	19
12	Are You My Mother?	Alison Bechdel	5
13	The Swerve	Stephen Greenblatt	17
14	This Is How	Augusten Burroughs	4
15	Prague Winter	Madeleine Korbel Albright and Bill Woodward	6

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	9
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	7
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	7
4	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	4
5	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	6
6	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	1
7	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	6
8	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	9
9	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	31
10	The Buddha in the Attic	Julie Otsuka	11
11	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	9
12	Maine	J. Courtney Sullivan	1
13	The Weird Sisters	Eleanor Brown	17
14	The Dovekeepers	Alice Hoffman	9
15	Swamplandia!	Karen Russell	34

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	5
2	Bossypants	Tina Fey	22
3	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	6
4	The Greater Journey	David McCullough	3
5	F In Exams	Richard Benson	51
6	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	51
7	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	65
8	The Psychopath Test	Jon Ronson	3
9	Lost in Shangri-La	Mitchell Zuckoff	1
10	The Eighty-Dollar Champion	Elizabeth Letts	1
11	The Happiness Project	Gretchen Rubin	58
12	The Hare With Amber Eyes	Edmund De Waal	41
13	Nothing Daunted	Dorothy Wickenden	6
14	Heaven Is for Real	Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent	72
15	Blue Nights	Joan Didion	1

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