NPR Bestsellers: Week Of December 6, 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 Round House	Louise Erdrich	8
2	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	25
3	The Black Box	Michael Connelly	1
4	Dear Life	Alice Munro	3
5	Sweet Tooth	Ian McEwan	3
6	The Casual Vacancy	J.K. Rowling	9
7	Cold Days	Jim Butcher	1
8	The Racketeer	John Grisham	5
9	The Art Forger	B.A. Shapiro	4
10	Winter Of The World	Ken Follett	10
11	A Thousand Mornings	Mary Oliver	6
12	The Forgotten	David Baldacci	2
13	Notorious Nineteen	Janet Evanovich	2
14	This Is How You Lose Her	Junot Diaz	11

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Thomas Jefferson	Jon Meacham	3
2	Help, Thanks, Wow	Anne Lamott	3
3	Barefoot Contessa Foolproof	Ina Garten and Quentin Bacon	5
4	I Could Pee On This	Francesco Marciuliano	15
5	Killing Kennedy	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	8
6	America Again	Stephen Colbert	8
7	The Last Lion	William Manchester and Paul Reid	5
8	Waging Heavy Peace	Neil Young	9
9	Far From The Tree	Andrew Solomon	1
10	Killing Lincoln	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	44
11	The Signal And The Noise	Nate Silver	6
12	The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook	Deb Perelman	5
13	Hallucinations	Oliver Sacks	4
14	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	36
15	Behind The Beautiful Forevers	Katherine Boo	10

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Life Of Pi	Yann Martel	5
2	Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	6
3	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	28
4	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	1
5	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	26
6	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	21
7	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	34
8	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	29
9	The Perks Of Being A Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	11
10	The Snow Child	Eowyn Ivey	4
11	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	34
12	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	22
13	The Marriage Plot	Jeffrey Eugenides	12
14	The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien	1
15	Fifty Shades Freed	E.L. James	32

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Team Of Rivals	Doris Kearns Goodwin	4
2	Proof Of Heaven	Eben Alexander, M.D.	5
3	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	30
4	The Swerve	Stephen Greenblatt	12
5	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	74
6	How To Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting To Kill You	Oatmeal	3
7	The Old Farmer's Almanac 2013		11
8	Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)	Mindy Kaling	10
9	Wreck This Journal	Keri Smith	1
10	Catherine The Great	Robert K. Massie	10
11	Bossypants	Tina Fey	47
12	Dancers Among Us	Jordan Matter	3
13	F In Exams	Richard Benson	66
14	F For Effort!	Richard Benson	9
15	Rin Tin Tin	Susan Orlean	1

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