NPR Bestsellers: Week Of August 30, 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	12
2	Where'd You Go, Bernadette	Maria Semple	2
3	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	49
4	Beautiful Ruins	Jess Walter	11
5	Broken Harbor	Tana French	5
6	The Dog Stars	Peter Heller	3
7	The Light Between Oceans	M.L. Stedman	3
8	A Hologram for the King	Dave Eggers	10
9	Canada	Richard Ford	14
10	Lionel Asbo	Martin Amis	1
11	Shadow Of Night	Deborah Harkness	7
12	The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry	Rachel Joyce	4
13	The Bartender's Tale	Ivan Doig	1
14	The Fallen Angel	Daniel Silva	6
15	Bring Up The Bodies	Hilary Mantel	13

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	23
2	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	93
3	Dearie	Bob Spitz	3
4	I Could Pee On This	Francesco Marciuliano	2
5	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	13
6	Double Cross	Ben MacIntyre	4
7	Paris	Kati Marton	2
8	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	35
9	Quiet	Susan Cain	29
10	The Amateur	Edward Klein	12
11	Go the F- - - to Sleep	Adam Mansbach	51
12	Winter Journal	Paul Auster	1
13	Why Does The World Exist?	Jim Holt	1
14	Paterno	Joe Posnanski	1
15	The Power of Habit	Charles Duhigg	17

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	21
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	19
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	19
4	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	8
5	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	16
6	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	13
7	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	9
8	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	18
9	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	21
10	Maine	J. Courtney Sullivan	13
11	Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	2
12	The Keeper of Lost Causes	Jussi Adler-Olsen	1
13	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	43
14	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	21
15	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	18

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	17
2	How To Be A Woman	Caitlin Moran	5
3	Bossypants	Tina Fey	34
4	1493	Charles C. Mann	5
5	Tiny Beautiful Things	Cheryl Strayed	7
6	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	76
7	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	62
8	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	18
9	To Heaven And Back	Mary C. Neal, M.D.	6
10	That Used To Be Us	Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum	1
11	I Remember Nothing	Nora Ephron	14
12	The Untethered Soul	Michael A. Singer	1
13	Incognito	David M. Eagleman	1
14	F In Exams	Richard Benson	61
15	Born To Run	Christopher McDougall	59

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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