NPR Bestsellers: Week Of August 9, 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	9
2	Broken Harbor	Tana French	2
3	A Hologram for the King	Dave Eggers	7
4	The Fallen Angel	Daniel Silva	3
5	Shadow Of Night	Deborah Harkness	4
6	Beautiful Ruins	Jess Walter	8
7	The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry	Rachel Joyce	1
8	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	46
9	Creole Belle	James Lee Burke	3
10	Mission to Paris	Alan Furst	8
11	Where We Belong	Emily Giffin	2
12	The Age of Miracles	Karen Thompson Walker	6
13	Canada	Richard Ford	11
14	The Prisoner Of Heaven	Carlos Ruiz Zafon	4
15	The Sandcastle Girls	Chris Bohjalian	3

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	20
2	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	90
3	Double Cross	Ben MacIntyre	1
4	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	10
5	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	32
6	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	15
7	Days Of Destruction, Days Of Revolt	Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco	2
8	Quiet	Susan Cain	26
9	Go the F- - - to Sleep	Adam Mansbach	48
10	Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	13
11	Steve Jobs	Walter Isaacson	34
12	Imagine	Jonah Lehrer	20
13	The Power of Habit	Charles Duhigg	14
14	The Amateur	Edward Klein	9
15	Monkey Mind	Daniel B. Smith	3

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	18
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	16
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	16
4	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	13
5	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	5
6	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	6
7	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	10
8	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	15
9	Maine	J. Courtney Sullivan	10
10	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	18
11	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	40
12	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	18
13	A Discovery of Witches	Deborah Harkness	17
14	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	15
15	The Cat's Table	Michael Ondaatje	8

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	14
2	1493	Charles C. Mann	2
3	Bossypants	Tina Fey	31
4	How To Be A Woman	Caitlin Moran	2
5	Tiny Beautiful Things	Cheryl Strayed	4
6	I Remember Nothing	Nora Ephron	11
7	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	15
8	To Heaven And Back	Mary C. Neal, M.D.	3
9	Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness	Alexandra Fuller	6
10	I Feel Bad About My Neck	Nora Ephron	16
11	The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	213
12	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	73
13	The Eighty-Dollar Champion	Elizabeth Letts	10
14	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	59
15	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	48

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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