NPR Bestsellers: Week Of September 20, 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	15
2	A Wanted Man	Lee Child	1
3	This Is How You Lose Her	Junot Diaz	1
4	The Time Keeper	Mitch Albom	2
5	The Beautiful Mystery	Louise Penny	3
6	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	52
7	Where'd You Go, Bernadette	Maria Semple	5
8	The Light Between Oceans	M.L. Stedman	6
9	The Yellow Birds	Kevin Powers	1
10	Broken Harbor	Tana French	8
11	Shadow Of Night	Deborah Harkness	9
12	The Dog Stars	Peter Heller	6

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	The Price of Politics	Bob Woodward	1
2	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	26
3	I Could Pee On This	Francesco Marciuliano	5
4	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	96
5	How Music Works	David Byrne	3
6	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	16
7	Double Cross	Ben MacIntyre	7
8	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	37
9	Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story	D.T. Max	3
10	The Amateur	Edward Klein	15
11	Wheat Belly	William Davis, M.D.	2

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	22
2	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	22
3	The Marriage Plot	Jeffrey Eugenides	2
4	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	19
5	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	12
6	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	24
7	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	21
8	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	21
9	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	46
10	The Cat's Table	Michael Ondaatje	12
11	The Perks Of Being A Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	1

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	20
2	The Swerve	Stephen Greenblatt	2
3	Arguably	Christopher Hitchens	3
4	Boomerang	Michael Lewis	1
5	How To Be A Woman	Caitlin Moran	8
6	Bossypants	Tina Fey	37
7	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	79
8	Tiny Beautiful Things	Cheryl Strayed	10
9	1493	Charles C. Mann	8
10	The Old Farmer's Almanac 2013		1
11	To Heaven And Back	Mary C. Neal, M.D.	9
12	F For Effort!	Richard Benson	2
13	F In Exams	Richard Benson	63

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