NPR Bestsellers: Week Of August 2, 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	8
2	Broken Harbor	Tana French	1
3	A Hologram for the King	Dave Eggers	6
4	Shadow Of Night	Deborah Harkness	3
5	The Fallen Angel	Daniel Silva	2
6	Beautiful Ruins	Jess Walter	7
7	Where We Belong	Emily Giffin	1
8	Mission to Paris	Alan Furst	7
9	Canada	Richard Ford	10
10	Creole Belle	James Lee Burke	2
11	The Prisoner Of Heaven	Carlos Ruiz Zafon	3
12	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	45
13	The Sandcastle Girls	Chris Bohjalian	2
14	The Age of Miracles	Karen Thompson Walker	5
15	In One Person	John Irving	12

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	19
2	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	89
3	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	9
4	Days Of Destruction, Days Of Revolt	Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco	1
5	Imagine	Jonah Lehrer	19
6	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	14
7	Quiet	Susan Cain	25
8	The Amateur	Edward Klein	8
9	Steve Jobs	Walter Isaacson	33
10	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	31
11	The Presidents Club	Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy	9
12	Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	12
13	Monkey Mind	Daniel B. Smith	2
14	Go the F- - - to Sleep	Adam Mansbach	47
15	The Power of Habit	Charles Duhigg	13

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	17
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	15
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	15
4	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	4
5	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	12
6	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	5
7	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	9
8	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	14
9	Maine	J. Courtney Sullivan	9
10	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	17
11	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	39
12	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	17
13	A Discovery of Witches	Deborah Harkness	16
14	The Cat's Table	Michael Ondaatje	7
15	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	14

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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