NPR Bestsellers: Week Of July 19, 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	Shadow Of Night	Deborah Harkness	1
2	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	6
3	Mission to Paris	Alan Furst	5
4	Canada	Richard Ford	8
5	Beautiful Ruins	Jess Walter	5
6	The Age of Miracles	Karen Thompson Walker	3
7	The Prisoner Of Heaven	Carlos Ruiz Zafon	1
8	A Hologram for the King	Dave Eggers	4
9	Bring Up The Bodies	Hilary Mantel	10
10	Gold	Chris Cleave	2
11	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	43
12	In One Person	John Irving	10
13	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	73
14	Calico Joe	John Grisham	14
15	Sacre Bleu	Christopher Moore	15

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	17
2	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	87
3	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	7
4	Imagine	Jonah Lehrer	17
5	The Amateur	Edward Klein	6
6	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	12
7	Quiet	Susan Cain	23
8	Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	10
9	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	29
10	The Presidents Club	Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy	7
11	Go the F- - - to Sleep	Adam Mansbach	45
12	Steve Jobs	Walter Isaacson	31
13	The Passage Of Power	Robert A. Caro	11
14	Barack Obama	David Maraniss	3
15	Drift	Rachel Maddow	15

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	15
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	13
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	13
4	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	2
5	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	10
6	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	3
7	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	7
8	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	12
9	Maine	J. Courtney Sullivan	7
10	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	15
11	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	15
12	The Cat's Table	Michael Ondaatje	5
13	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	12
14	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	37
15	A Discovery of Witches	Deborah Harkness	14

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	11
2	Bossypants	Tina Fey	28
3	I Remember Nothing	Nora Ephron	8
4	Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness	Alexandra Fuller	3
5	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	12
6	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	57
7	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	71
8	I Feel Bad About My Neck	Nora Ephron	13
9	Tiny Beautiful Things	Cheryl Strayed	1
10	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	46
11	The Eighty-Dollar Champion	Elizabeth Letts	7
12	The Greater Journey	David McCullough	9
13	F In Exams	Richard Benson	57
14	Born To Run	Christopher McDougall	57
15	The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	211

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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