NPR Bestsellers: Week Of July 26, 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	7
2	The Fallen Angel	Daniel Silva	1
3	Shadow Of Night	Deborah Harkness	2
4	A Hologram for the King	Dave Eggers	5
5	Mission to Paris	Alan Furst	6
6	Canada	Richard Ford	9
7	Creole Belle	James Lee Burke	1
8	Beautiful Ruins	Jess Walter	6
9	The Age of Miracles	Karen Thompson Walker	4
10	The Prisoner Of Heaven	Carlos Ruiz Zafon	2
11	The Sandcastle Girls	Chris Bohjalian	1
12	Bring Up The Bodies	Hilary Mantel	11
13	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	44
14	Gold	Chris Cleave	3
15	In One Person	John Irving	11

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	18
2	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	88
3	Imagine	Jonah Lehrer	18
4	Steve Jobs	Walter Isaacson	32
5	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	8
6	The Amateur	Edward Klein	7
7	Quiet	Susan Cain	24
8	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	13
9	The Presidents Club	Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy	8
10	Monkey Mind	Daniel B. Smith	1
11	The Passage Of Power	Robert A. Caro	12
12	Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	11
13	Go the F- - - to Sleep	Adam Mansbach	46
14	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	30
15	The Power of Habit	Charles Duhigg	12

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	16
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	14
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	14
4	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	3
5	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	11
6	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	4
7	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	8
8	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	13
9	Maine	J. Courtney Sullivan	8
10	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	16
11	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	38
12	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	16
13	A Discovery of Witches	Deborah Harkness	15
14	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	13
15	The Cat's Table	Michael Ondaatje	6

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	12
2	Bossypants	Tina Fey	29
3	I Remember Nothing	Nora Ephron	9
4	Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness	Alexandra Fuller	4
5	I Feel Bad About My Neck	Nora Ephron	14
6	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	72
7	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	13
8	To Heaven And Back	Mary C. Neal, M.D.	1
9	Tiny Beautiful Things	Cheryl Strayed	2
10	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	58
11	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	47
12	Steal Like an Artist	Austin Kleon	6
13	F In Exams	Richard Benson	58
14	The Eighty-Dollar Champion	Elizabeth Letts	8
15	The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	212

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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