NPR Bestsellers: Week Of September 6, 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	13
2	The Beautiful Mystery	Louise Penny	1
3	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	50
4	Broken Harbor	Tana French	6
5	The Light Between Oceans	M.L. Stedman	4
6	The Dog Stars	Peter Heller	4
7	A Hologram for the King	Dave Eggers	11
8	Shadow Of Night	Deborah Harkness	8
9	Where'd You Go, Bernadette	Maria Semple	3
10	Beautiful Ruins	Jess Walter	12
11	The Bartender's Tale	Ivan Doig	2
12	The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry	Rachel Joyce	5
13	The Orchardist	Amanda Coplin	1
14	Bring Up The Bodies	Hilary Mantel	14
15	Canada	Richard Ford	15

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	24
2	I Could Pee On This	Francesco Marciuliano	3
3	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	94
4	Dearie	Bob Spitz	4
5	Double Cross	Ben MacIntyre	5
6	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	14
7	Paris	Kati Marton	3
8	Mortality	Christopher Hitchens	1
9	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	36
10	Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story	D.T. Max	1
11	How Music Works	David Byrne	1
12	Quiet	Susan Cain	30
13	Winter Journal	Paul Auster	2
14	Why Does The World Exist?	Jim Holt	2
15	The Amateur	Edward Klein	13

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	22
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	20
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	20
4	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	14
5	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	9
6	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	17
7	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	10
8	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	19
9	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	22
10	Maine	J. Courtney Sullivan	14
11	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	44
12	Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	3
13	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	19
14	The Cat's Table	Michael Ondaatje	11
15	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	22

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	18
2	How To Be A Woman	Caitlin Moran	6
3	Bossypants	Tina Fey	35
4	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	77
5	1493	Charles C. Mann	6
6	Tiny Beautiful Things	Cheryl Strayed	8
7	To Heaven And Back	Mary C. Neal, M.D.	7
8	That Used To Be Us	Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum	2
9	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	19
10	I Remember Nothing	Nora Ephron	15
11	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	50
12	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	63
13	I Feel Bad About My Neck	Nora Ephron	19
14	Arguably	Christopher Hitchens	1
15	Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness	Alexandra Fuller	9

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