NPR Bestsellers: Week Of June 28, 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	3
2	Canada	Richard Ford	5
3	Mission to Paris	Alan Furst	2
4	Bring Up The Bodies	Hilary Mantel	7
5	A Hologram for the King	Dave Eggers	1
6	In One Person	John Irving	7
7	Beautiful Ruins	Jess Walter	2
8	Calico Joe	John Grisham	11
9	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	40
10	Istanbul Passage	Joseph Kanon	4
11	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	70
12	Home	Toni Morrison	7
13	Sacre Bleu	Christopher Moore	12
14	The Red House	Mark Haddon	1
15	A Blaze of Glory	Jeff Shaara	4

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	14
2	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	84
3	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	9
4	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	4
5	Barack Obama	David Maraniss	1
6	Imagine	Jonah Lehrer	14
7	The Passage Of Power	Robert A. Caro	8
8	Quiet	Susan Cain	20
9	The Amateur	Edward Klein	3
10	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	27
11	American Grown	Michelle Obama	3
12	It Worked for Me	Colin Powell and Tony Koltz	5
13	Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	7
14	The Price of Inequality	Joseph E. Stiglitz	1
15	Cronkite	Douglas Brinkley	4

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	12
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	10
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	10
4	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	7
5	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	4
6	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	9
7	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	12
8	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	9
9	Maine	J. Courtney Sullivan	4
10	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	12
11	The Cat's Table	Michael Ondaatje	2
12	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	34
13	The Buddha in the Attic	Julie Otsuka	14
14	Swamplandia!	Karen Russell	37
15	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	8
2	Bossypants	Tina Fey	25
3	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	9
4	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	68
5	F In Exams	Richard Benson	54
6	The Greater Journey	David McCullough	6
7	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	54
8	The Eighty-Dollar Champion	Elizabeth Letts	4
9	Born To Run	Christopher McDougall	55
10	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	43
11	Blue Nights	Joan Didion	4
12	The Happiness Project	Gretchen Rubin	60
13	Steal Like an Artist	Austin Kleon	4
14	The Hare With Amber Eyes	Edmund De Waal	42
15	The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	208

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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