Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Fiction, Week Of June 28, 2012 June 29, 2012 • A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers' tale of adventure and economic hardship, debuts at No. 5.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For July 21 July 22, 2011 • War is winding down in the Seven Kingdoms, but dynastic struggles continue to loom large. After a six-year wait, A Dance with Dragons — the fifth book in George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series — debuts at No. 1.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For July 14 July 15, 2011 • After her husband is indicted for investment fraud, Meredith Martin Delinn loses everything, but she hopes a summer on Nantucket will help her heal. Silver Girl, by Elin Hilderbrand, enjoys a second week on the list.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For July 7 July 8, 2011 • When the young witness to a triple homicide lapses into a state of shock, Detective Linna tries to breach his memory through hypnosis. The Hypnotist — a Swedish import by Lars Kepler — debuts at No. 9.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For June 30 July 1, 2011 • After a friend's death, a Vermont teenager moves to New York's Lower East Side in search of a sense of community. Hippies and Hare Krishnas populate Eleanor Henderson's Ten Thousand Saints, which debuts at No. 13.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For June 23 June 24, 2011 • Three generations of strong-willed women spill their secrets at the family's summer home. Maine, by J. Courtney Sullivan, debuts at No. 7.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For June 16 June 17, 2011 • When a computer intelligence system goes live, the human race inadvertently creates its own successor. Human characters across the globe resist mass deletion in Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse. It debuts at No. 9.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For June 9 June 10, 2011 • When bad-boy actor Jumbo Nelson gets accused of rape and murder, the Boston police department calls private eye Spenser in to help them solve the case. Robert B. Parker's Sixkill enjoys its fifth week on the list.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For June 2 June 3, 2011 • Pete Hamill follows the editor-in-chief of New York's last afternoon tabloid through murder, mourning and the rush of a daily deadline. Tabloid City debuts at No. 12.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For May 26 May 27, 2011 • Before Doc Holliday was a gun-slinging Western legend, he was an ailing Southern gentleman in search of a better climate. Author Mary Doria Russell tells the story of his beginnings in the West, and his rise to notoriety in a thrilling, almost lawless world. Doc debuts at No. 12.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For May 19 May 20, 2011 • On the first snow day of the year, a boy wakes up to find his mother gone and a mysterious snowman outside, the calling card of a notorious serial killer. Detective Hole investigates the case in Jo Nesbo's The Snowman, which debuts at No. 7.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For May 12 May 13, 2011 • When mind-reading waitress Sookie Stackhouse witnesses the firebombing of the bar where she works, she teams up with her shape-shifting boss to uncover the culprit. The latest installment in Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire book series, Dead Reckoning, debuts at No. 2.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For May 5 May 6, 2011 • When a long-lost Shakespeare play turns up in the possession of a convicted forger, his son must decide whether it's the real deal or his father's greatest scheme. The Tragedy of Arthur debuts at No. 12.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For April 28 April 29, 2011 • Caroline Kennedy pays tribute to womanhood in a narrated collection of her favorite poems by the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, Mary Oliver and Pablo Neruda. She Walks In Beauty enjoys its third week on the list.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For April 21 April 22, 2011 • For Commissario Guido Brunetti's latest case, the Italian detective delves into the lives of Venice's elderly residents to investigate the death of a woman who ran a safe house for abused wives. Donna Leon's 20th installment in the Brunetti series, Drawing Conclusions, debuts at No. 12.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For April 14 April 15, 2011 • In Billy Collins' ninth collection of poetry, he explores the themes of loss and love with lyrical humor and whimsy. Often described as America's most popular poet, Collins crafts poems that are heartfelt and accessible. Horoscopes from the Dead debuts at No. 8.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For April 7 April 8, 2011 • The Pale King, the unfinished last novel of David Foster Wallace, explores the quirks and aspirations of new recruits at an IRS office in a Midwestern town. In the novel, Wallace humorously and skillfully grapples with themes of unconquerable boredom and satisfaction. It debuts at No. 13.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For March 31 April 1, 2011 • The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency returns to solve a new slew of mysteries — including murdered cattle, the reappearance of Mma Ramotswe's old white van and a search for the perfect pair of wedding shoes. Alexander McCall Smith's The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party debuts at No. 3.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For March 24 March 25, 2011 • Detective Jackson Brodie returns from semi-retirement to solve a beguiling adoption case in his childhood home of Yorkshire — involving mysterious parentage, another retired detective, her young ward and an aging actress. Started Early, Took My Dog debuts at No. 10.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For March 17 March 18, 2011 • In an unnamed Balkan country, a young medical student grieves for her late grandfather as she cares for the children of an orphanage in enemy territory. Intertwined with the myths of her grandfather's childhood, the story examines family legend, loss and love. The Tiger's Wife debuts at No. 1.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For March 10 March 11, 2011 • The much anticipated second volume in Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy was released March 1. The Wise Man's Fear flew straight to the top of the hardcover fiction list this week.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For March 3 March 4, 2011 • Paula McLain re-creates Hemingway's Paris years from a new perspective — through the eyes of his first wife, Hadley Richardson. McLain's novel is an imaginative and heartbreaking exploration of Richardson's life as "the wife" of a genius. The Paris Wife debuts at No. 1.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For Feb. 24 February 25, 2011 • Precocious child-sleuth Flavia de Luce returns to solve another slew of mysteries in the hamlet of Bishop's Lacey. In her idiosyncratic style, she puzzles out the cases of a missing tot, a bludgeoned gypsy and a corpse. A Red Herring Without Mustard enjoys its second week on the list.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For Feb. 17 February 18, 2011 • When the townspeople of Port Bonita, a settlement west of Seattle, blast open a dam built by their ancestors more than 100 years ago, their lives enmesh with the freshly unearthed stories of the town's past. West of Here debuts at No. 13.
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For Feb. 10 February 11, 2011 • Set in the muddy backwoods of the Everglades, Swamplandia! follows the events of a rundown amusement park and the family of gator-wrestling warriors that runs it. Karen Russell's first novel debuts at No. 5.
