NPR Bestsellers: Week Of November 22, 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	Flight Behavior	Barbara Kingsolver	2
2	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	23
3	The Round House	Louise Erdrich	6
4	Sweet Tooth	Ian McEwan	1
5	The Racketeer	John Grisham	3
6	The Casual Vacancy	J.K. Rowling	7
7	The Last Man	Vince Flynn	1
8	Dear Life	Alice Munro	1
9	The Yellow Birds	Kevin Powers	6
10	This Is How You Lose Her	Junot Diaz	9
11	The Art Forger	B.A. Shapiro	2
12	Telegraph Avenue	Michael Chabon	9
13	A Thousand Mornings	Mary Oliver	4
14	Winter Of The World	Ken Follett	8
15	Back To Blood	Tom Wolfe	3

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Thomas Jefferson	Jon Meacham	1
2	Barefoot Contessa Foolproof	Ina Garten and Quentin Bacon	3
3	I Could Pee On This	Francesco Marciuliano	13
4	Help, Thanks, Wow	Anne Lamott	1
5	Killing Kennedy	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	6
6	Hallucinations	Oliver Sacks	2
7	The Signal And The Noise	Nate Silver	4
8	The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook	Deb Perelman	3
9	The Last Lion	William Manchester and Paul Reid	3
10	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	34
11	Guinness World Records 2013	Guinness World Records	6
12	America Again	Stephen Colbert	6
13	No Easy Day	Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer	10
14	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	42
15	Waging Heavy Peace	Neil Young	7

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	4
2	Life Of Pi	Yann Martel	3
3	The Perks Of Being A Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	9
4	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	32
5	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	24
6	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	26
7	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	19
8	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	27
9	The Marriage Plot	Jeffrey Eugenides	10
10	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	32
11	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	20
12	The Snow Child	Eowyn Ivey	2
13	Fifty Shades Darker	E.L. James	30
14	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	30
15	The Perfect Hope	Nora Roberts	2

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Team Of Rivals	Doris Kearns Goodwin	2
2	Proof Of Heaven	Eben Alexander, M.D.	3
3	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	28
4	The Swerve	Stephen Greenblatt	10
5	The Old Farmer's Almanac 2013		9
6	Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)	Mindy Kaling	8
7	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	72
8	Bossypants	Tina Fey	45
9	Dancers Among Us	Jordan Matter	1
10	Catherine The Great	Robert K. Massie	8
11	Lucky Peach Issue 5	Chris Ying, David Chang and Peter Meehan	2
12	Arguably	Christopher Hitchens	11
13	The Greater Journey	David McCullough	10
14	The Untethered Soul	Michael A. Singer	4
15	Tiny Beautiful Things	Cheryl Strayed	17

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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