NPR Bestsellers: Week Of June 13, 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	And the Mountains Echoed	Khaled Hosseini	3
2	Inferno	Dan Brown	4
3	TransAtlantic	Colum McCann	1
4	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	52
5	Life After Life	Kate Atkinson	10
6	The Son	Philipp Meyer	2
7	A Delicate Truth	John Le Carre	5
8	Revenge Wears Prada	Lauren Weisberger	1
9	The Burgess Boys	Elizabeth Strout	11
10	The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls	Anton Disclafani	1
11	The Interestings	Meg Wolitzer	9
12	The Woman Upstairs	Claire Messud	6
13	A Dance With Dragons	George R.R. Martin	57
14	The Redeemer	Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett	3
15	A Serpent's Tooth	Craig Johnson	1

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls	David Sedaris	7
2	Lean In	Sheryl Sandberg	13
3	The Unwinding	George Packer	3
4	The Guns At Last Light	Rick Atkinson	4
5	Vader's Little Princess	Jeffrey Brown	7
6	Cooked	Michael Pollan	7
7	I Could Pee On This	Francesco Marciuliano	42
8	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	26
9	The Boys In The Boat	Daniel James Brown	1
10	Bunker Hill	Nathaniel Philbrick	6
11	It's All Good	Gwyneth Paltrow	10
12	Help, Thanks, Wow	Anne Lamott	30
13	Eleven Rings	Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty	3
14	The Drunken Botanist	Amy Stewart	13
15	Gulp	Mary Roach	10

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Joyland	Stephen King	1
2	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	7
3	Beautiful Ruins	Jess Walter	10
4	Flight Behavior	Barbara Kingsolver	1
5	Where'd You Go, Bernadette	Maria Semple	10
6	The Orphan Master's Son	Adam Johnson	8
7	Entwined with You	Sylvia Day	1
8	The Art Forger	B.A. Shapiro	6
9	The Light Between Oceans	M.L. Stedman	10
10	World War Z	Max Brooks	3
11	Bring Up The Bodies	Hilary Mantel	5
12	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	28
13	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	61
14	A Hologram for the King	Dave Eggers	1
15	The Orchardist	Amanda Coplin	14

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	11
2	Proof Of Heaven	Eben Alexander, M.D.	32
3	Quiet	Susan Cain	19
4	Thinking, Fast And Slow	Daniel Kahneman	10
5	Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	14
6	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	7
7	Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)	Mindy Kaling	36
8	The End Of Your Life Book Club	Will Schwalbe	1
9	Why Does The World Exist?	Jim Holt	10
10	F In Exams	Richard Benson	77
11	The Black Count	Tom Reiss	3
12	Bossypants	Tina Fey	73
13	Escape From Camp 14	Blaine Harden	9
14	The Four Agreements	Don Miguel Ruiz	7
15	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	51

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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