NPR Bestsellers: Week Of July 5, 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	4
2	Canada	Richard Ford	6
3	Mission to Paris	Alan Furst	3
4	The Age of Miracles	Karen Thompson Walker	1
5	A Hologram for the King	Dave Eggers	2
6	Bring Up The Bodies	Hilary Mantel	8
7	Beautiful Ruins	Jess Walter	3
8	In One Person	John Irving	8
9	Calico Joe	John Grisham	12
10	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	41
11	Sacre Bleu	Christopher Moore	13
12	Istanbul Passage	Joseph Kanon	5
13	Home	Toni Morrison	8
14	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	71
15	Seating Arrangements	Maggie Shipstead	1

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	15
2	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	85
3	The Amateur	Edward Klein	4
4	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	5
5	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	10
6	Barack Obama	David Maraniss	2
7	Imagine	Jonah Lehrer	15
8	The Passage Of Power	Robert A. Caro	9
9	Drift	Rachel Maddow	13
10	Quiet	Susan Cain	21
11	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	28
12	Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	8
13	Go the F- - - to Sleep	Adam Mansbach	44
14	Yes, Chef	Marcus Samuelsson	1
15	American Grown	Michelle Obama	4

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	13
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	11
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	11
4	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	8
5	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	5
6	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	10
7	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	13
8	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	1
9	Maine	J. Courtney Sullivan	5
10	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	13
11	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	10
12	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	35
13	The Cat's Table	Michael Ondaatje	3
14	The Weird Sisters	Eleanor Brown	20
15	The Buddha in the Attic	Julie Otsuka	15

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	9
2	Bossypants	Tina Fey	26
3	I Remember Nothing	Nora Ephron	6
4	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	69
5	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	10
6	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	55
7	Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness	Alexandra Fuller	1
8	F In Exams	Richard Benson	55
9	The Eighty-Dollar Champion	Elizabeth Letts	5
10	I Feel Bad About My Neck	Nora Ephron	11
11	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	44
12	Destiny of the Republic	Candice Millard	2
13	The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	209
14	Born To Run	Christopher McDougall	56
15	The Greater Journey	David McCullough	7

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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