NPR Bestsellers: Week Of September 27, 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	Winter Of The World	Ken Follett	1
2	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	16
3	Telegraph Avenue	Michael Chabon	2
4	A Wanted Man	Lee Child	2
5	This Is How You Lose Her	Junot Diaz	2
6	The Time Keeper	Mitch Albom	3
7	NW	Zadie Smith	3
8	Where'd You Go, Bernadette	Maria Semple	6
9	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	53
10	The Yellow Birds	Kevin Powers	2
11	The Light Between Oceans	M.L. Stedman	7
12	The Beautiful Mystery	Louise Penny	4
13	Beautiful Ruins	Jess Walter	14
14	The Bartender's Tale	Ivan Doig	4
15	San Miguel	T. Coraghessan Boyle	1

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	No Easy Day	Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer	3
2	Joseph Anton	Salman Rushdie	1
3	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	27
4	Mortality	Christopher Hitchens	4
5	I Could Pee On This	Francesco Marciuliano	6
6	The Price of Politics	Bob Woodward	2
7	How Music Works	David Byrne	4
8	The Oath	Jeffrey Toobin	1
9	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	97
10	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	17
11	Guinness World Records 2013	Guinness World Records	2
12	I'm Your Man	Sylvie Simmons	1
13	How Children Succeed	Paul Tough	1
14	Dearie	Bob Spitz	7
15	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	38

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	25
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	23
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	23
4	The Marriage Plot	Jeffrey Eugenides	3
5	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	17
6	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	20
7	Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	6
8	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	12
9	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	13
10	The Perks Of Being A Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	2
11	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	25
12	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	22
13	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	47
14	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	22
15	The Cat's Table	Michael Ondaatje	13

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	21
2	The Swerve	Stephen Greenblatt	3
3	Arguably	Christopher Hitchens	4
4	Bossypants	Tina Fey	38
5	Eat to Live	Joel Fuhrman	1
6	Boomerang	Michael Lewis	2
7	How To Be A Woman	Caitlin Moran	9
8	The Old Farmer's Almanac 2013		2
9	Catherine The Great	Robert K. Massie	1
10	Tiny Beautiful Things	Cheryl Strayed	11
11	Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)	Mindy Kaling	1
12	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	80
13	1493	Charles C. Mann	9
14	F For Effort!	Richard Benson	3
15	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	65

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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