NPR Bestsellers: Week Of July 12, 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	5
2	Canada	Richard Ford	7
3	Mission to Paris	Alan Furst	4
4	The Age of Miracles	Karen Thompson Walker	2
5	A Hologram for the King	Dave Eggers	3
6	Beautiful Ruins	Jess Walter	4
7	Bring Up The Bodies	Hilary Mantel	9
8	In One Person	John Irving	9
9	Calico Joe	John Grisham	13
10	Gold	Chris Cleave	1
11	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	42
12	Sacre Bleu	Christopher Moore	14
13	Seating Arrangements	Maggie Shipstead	2
14	Istanbul Passage	Joseph Kanon	6
15	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	72

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	16
2	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	86
3	The Amateur	Edward Klein	5
4	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	6
5	Imagine	Jonah Lehrer	16
6	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	11
7	The Passage Of Power	Robert A. Caro	10
8	Quiet	Susan Cain	22
9	The Presidents Club	Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy	6
10	Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	9
11	Drift	Rachel Maddow	14
12	Steve Jobs	Walter Isaacson	30
13	Yes, Chef	Marcus Samuelsson	2
14	Are You My Mother?	Alison Bechdel	7
15	The Power of Habit	Charles Duhigg	11

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	14
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	12
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	12
4	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	9
5	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	2
6	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	1
7	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	6
8	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	11
9	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	14
10	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	11
11	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	36
12	Maine	J. Courtney Sullivan	6
13	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	14
14	The Buddha in the Attic	Julie Otsuka	16
15	The Cat's Table	Michael Ondaatje	4

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	10
2	Bossypants	Tina Fey	27
3	Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness	Alexandra Fuller	2
4	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	11
5	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	70
6	I Remember Nothing	Nora Ephron	7
7	The Eighty-Dollar Champion	Elizabeth Letts	6
8	Destiny of the Republic	Candice Millard	3
9	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	56
10	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	45
11	I Feel Bad About My Neck	Nora Ephron	12
12	The Greater Journey	David McCullough	8
13	F In Exams	Richard Benson	56
14	Steal Like an Artist	Austin Kleon	5
15	The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	210

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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