NPR Bestsellers: Week Of October 4, 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	The Casual Vacancy	J.K. Rowling	1
2	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	17
3	Winter Of The World	Ken Follett	2
4	Telegraph Avenue	Michael Chabon	3
5	This Is How You Lose Her	Junot Diaz	3
6	A Wanted Man	Lee Child	3
7	The Time Keeper	Mitch Albom	4
8	NW	Zadie Smith	4
9	Where'd You Go, Bernadette	Maria Semple	7
10	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	54
11	The Yellow Birds	Kevin Powers	3
12	The Beautiful Mystery	Louise Penny	5
13	Sutton	J.R. Moehringer	1
14	The Light Between Oceans	M.L. Stedman	8
15	San Miguel	T. Coraghessan Boyle	2

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	No Easy Day	Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer	4
2	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	28
3	Waging Heavy Peace	Neil Young	1
4	Joseph Anton	Salman Rushdie	2
5	Mortality	Christopher Hitchens	5
6	I Could Pee On This	Francesco Marciuliano	7
7	The Price of Politics	Bob Woodward	3
8	How Music Works	David Byrne	5
9	The Oath	Jeffrey Toobin	2
10	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	98
11	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	18
12	Guinness World Records 2013	Guinness World Records	3
13	How Children Succeed	Paul Tough	2
14	Wheat Belly	William Davis, M.D.	3
15	I'm Your Man	Sylvie Simmons	2

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	26
2	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	24
3	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	24
4	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	21
5	The Marriage Plot	Jeffrey Eugenides	4
6	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	18
7	The Perks Of Being A Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	3
8	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	13
9	Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	7
10	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	26
11	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	14
12	The Art of Fielding	Chad Harbach	23
13	The Shoemaker's Wife	Adriana Trigiani	1
14	The Tiger's Wife	Tea Obreht	48
15	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	23

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	22
2	The Swerve	Stephen Greenblatt	4
3	Arguably	Christopher Hitchens	5
4	Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)	Mindy Kaling	2
5	Catherine The Great	Robert K. Massie	2
6	How To Be A Woman	Caitlin Moran	10
7	Boomerang	Michael Lewis	3
8	The Old Farmer's Almanac 2013		3
9	Bossypants	Tina Fey	39
10	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	66
11	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	81
12	Tiny Beautiful Things	Cheryl Strayed	12
13	F For Effort!	Richard Benson	4
14	The Chew	Carla Hall, Mario Batali, Michael Symon, Daphne Oz and Clinton Kelly	1
15	1493	Charles C. Mann	10

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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