NPR Bestsellers: Week Of August 16, 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	10
2	Broken Harbor	Tana French	3
3	Shadow Of Night	Deborah Harkness	5
4	A Hologram for the King	Dave Eggers	8
5	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	47
6	The Fallen Angel	Daniel Silva	4
7	The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry	Rachel Joyce	2
8	Beautiful Ruins	Jess Walter	9
9	The Sandcastle Girls	Chris Bohjalian	4
10	Mission to Paris	Alan Furst	9
11	The Light Between Oceans	M.L. Stedman	1
12	Canada	Richard Ford	12
13	Where We Belong	Emily Giffin	3
14	The Dog Stars	Peter Heller	1
15	Bring Up The Bodies	Hilary Mantel	12

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	21
2	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	91
3	Double Cross	Ben MacIntyre	2
4	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	11
5	Dearie	Bob Spitz	1
6	Monkey Mind	Daniel B. Smith	4
7	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	16
8	Go the F- - - to Sleep	Adam Mansbach	49
9	The Amateur	Edward Klein	10
10	Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	14
11	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	33
12	Quiet	Susan Cain	27
13	The Price of Inequality	Joseph E. Stiglitz	2
14	Days Of Destruction, Days Of Revolt	Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco	3
15	The Power of Habit	Charles Duhigg	15

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	19
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	17
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	17
4	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	14
5	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	6
6	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	11
7	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	7
8	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	16
9	Maine	J. Courtney Sullivan	11
10	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	19
11	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	16
12	A Discovery of Witches	Deborah Harkness	18
13	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	41
14	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	19
15	The Cat's Table	Michael Ondaatje	9

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	15
2	1493	Charles C. Mann	3
3	Bossypants	Tina Fey	32
4	Tiny Beautiful Things	Cheryl Strayed	5
5	How To Be A Woman	Caitlin Moran	3
6	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	74
7	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	16
8	Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness	Alexandra Fuller	7
9	I Remember Nothing	Nora Ephron	12
10	I Feel Bad About My Neck	Nora Ephron	17
11	F In Exams	Richard Benson	59
12	To Heaven And Back	Mary C. Neal, M.D.	4
13	The Eighty-Dollar Champion	Elizabeth Letts	11
14	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	49
15	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	60

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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