NPR Bestsellers: Week Of September 13, 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	14
2	NW	Zadie Smith	1
3	The Beautiful Mystery	Louise Penny	2
4	The Time Keeper	Mitch Albom	1
5	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	51
6	Where'd You Go, Bernadette	Maria Semple	4
7	Beautiful Ruins	Jess Walter	13
8	The Light Between Oceans	M.L. Stedman	5
9	Broken Harbor	Tana French	7
10	A Hologram for the King	Dave Eggers	12
11	Garment of Shadows	Laurie R. King	1
12	The Dog Stars	Peter Heller	5
13	The Orchardist	Amanda Coplin	2
14	Zoo	James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge	1
15	The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry	Rachel Joyce	6

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	No Easy Day	Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer	1
2	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	25
3	Mortality	Christopher Hitchens	2
4	I Could Pee On This	Francesco Marciuliano	4
5	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	95
6	Dearie	Bob Spitz	5
7	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	15
8	Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story	D.T. Max	2
9	Double Cross	Ben MacIntyre	6
10	Paris	Kati Marton	4
11	Wheat Belly	William Davis, M.D.	1
12	The Amateur	Edward Klein	14
13	Happier At Home	Gretchen Rubin	1
14	The Party Is Over	Mike Lofgren	1
15	How Music Works	David Byrne	2

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	23
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	21
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	21
4	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	10
5	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	15
6	The Marriage Plot	Jeffrey Eugenides	1
7	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	18
8	Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	4
9	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	11
10	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	20
11	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	23
12	Maine	J. Courtney Sullivan	15
13	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	45
14	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	20
15	A Discovery of Witches	Deborah Harkness	19

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	19
2	How To Be A Woman	Caitlin Moran	7
3	The Swerve	Stephen Greenblatt	1
4	Arguably	Christopher Hitchens	2
5	Bossypants	Tina Fey	36
6	Tiny Beautiful Things	Cheryl Strayed	9
7	1493	Charles C. Mann	7
8	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	78
9	Turn Right at Machu Picchu	Mark Adams	20
10	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	64
11	The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	215
12	To Heaven And Back	Mary C. Neal, M.D.	8
13	F In Exams	Richard Benson	62
14	I Remember Nothing	Nora Ephron	16
15	F For Effort!	Richard Benson	1

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