NPR Bestsellers: Week Of June 14, 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	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	1
2	Bring Up The Bodies	Hilary Mantel	5
3	Canada	Richard Ford	3
4	In One Person	John Irving	5
5	Calico Joe	John Grisham	9
6	Home	Toni Morrison	5
7	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	38
8	Sacre Bleu	Christopher Moore	10
9	Istanbul Passage	Joseph Kanon	2
10	A Blaze of Glory	Jeff Shaara	2
11	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	68
12	The Innocent	David Baldacci	8
13	Kiss the Dead	Laurell K. Hamilton	1
14	Stolen Prey	John Sandford	4
15	The Wind Through The Keyhole	Stephen King	6

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	12
2	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	7
3	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	82
4	The Passage Of Power	Robert A. Caro	6
5	American Grown	Michelle Obama	2
6	The Amateur	Edward Klein	1
7	I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)	Stephen Colbert and Paul Hildebrand	5
8	Imagine	Jonah Lehrer	12
9	Cronkite	Douglas Brinkley	2
10	Drift	Rachel Maddow	11
11	Are You My Mother?	Alison Bechdel	6
12	It Worked for Me	Colin Powell and Tony Koltz	3
13	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	25
14	The Presidents Club	Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy	4
15	Steve Jobs	Walter Isaacson	28

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	10
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	8
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	8
4	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	5
5	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	7
6	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	2
7	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	7
8	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	10
9	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	10
10	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	32
11	Maine	J. Courtney Sullivan	2
12	The Buddha in the Attic	Julie Otsuka	12
13	The Weird Sisters	Eleanor Brown	18
14	Swamplandia!	Karen Russell	35
15	Ready Player One	Ernest Cline	1

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	6
2	Bossypants	Tina Fey	23
3	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	7
4	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	66
5	F In Exams	Richard Benson	52
6	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	52
7	The Greater Journey	David McCullough	4
8	Nothing Daunted	Dorothy Wickenden	7
9	The Eighty-Dollar Champion	Elizabeth Letts	2
10	Heaven Is for Real	Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent	73
11	Born To Run	Christopher McDougall	53
12	The Happiness Project	Gretchen Rubin	59
13	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	41
14	Blue Nights	Joan Didion	2
15	Steal Like an Artist	Austin Kleon	2

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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