NPR Bestsellers: Week Of January 24, 2013 : 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	Tenth Of December	George Saunders	2
2	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	32
3	A Memory Of Light	Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson	2
4	Flight Behavior	Barbara Kingsolver	11
5	The Round House	Louise Erdrich	15
6	The Twelve Tribes Of Hattie	Ayana Mathis	6
7	Sweet Tooth	Ian McEwan	10
8	Dear Life	Alice Munro	10
9	This Is How You Lose Her	Junot Diaz	17
10	A Thousand Mornings	Mary Oliver	13
11	The River Swimmer	Jim Harrison	1
12	Standing In Another Man's Grave	Ian Rankin	1
13	The Casual Vacancy	J.K. Rowling	16
14	The Yellow Birds	Kevin Powers	13
15	The Racketeer	John Grisham	12

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Help, Thanks, Wow	Anne Lamott	10
2	My Beloved World	Sonia Sotomayor	1
3	I Could Pee On This	Francesco Marciuliano	22
4	The World Until Yesterday	Jared Diamond	3
5	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	43
6	Behind The Beautiful Forevers	Katherine Boo	17
7	The Dude And The Zen Master	Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman	2
8	Thomas Jefferson	Jon Meacham	10
9	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	105
10	Going Clear	Lawrence Wright	1
11	Barefoot Contessa Foolproof	Ina Garten and Quentin Bacon	12
12	Killing Kennedy	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	15
13	The Signal And The Noise	Nate Silver	13
14	Far From The Tree	Andrew Solomon	5
15	A Higher Call	Adam Makos and Larry Alexander	1

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	8
2	Life Of Pi	Yann Martel	12
3	Death Comes To Pemberley	P.D. James	3
4	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	35
5	The Sense Of An Ending	Julian Barnes	33
6	Fifty Shades Of Grey	E.L. James	41
7	The Snow Child	Eowyn Ivey	11
8	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	41
9	The Perks Of Being A Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	18
10	Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	13
11	State Of Wonder	Ann Patchett	36
12	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	28
13	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	3
14	Rules Of Civility	Amor Towles	29
15	Home	Toni Morrison	1

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Proof Of Heaven	Eben Alexander, M.D.	12
2	Team Of Rivals	Doris Kearns Goodwin	11
3	In The Garden Of Beasts	Erik Larson	37
4	The Swerve	Stephen Greenblatt	19
5	Lady Almina And The Real Downton Abbey	Fiona, Countess of Carnarvon	19
6	How To Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting To Kill You	Oatmeal	10
7	Bossypants	Tina Fey	54
8	Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)	Mindy Kaling	17
9	Tiny Beautiful Things	Cheryl Strayed	21
10	The Happiness Project	Gretchen Rubin	64
11	The World Almanac And Book Of Facts 2013	Sarah Janssen	7
12	F In Exams	Richard Benson	72
13	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	81
14	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	88
15	The Hare With Amber Eyes	Edmund De Waal	43

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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