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BESTSELLERS
Jan 9 - Jan 15, 2012 Edition

The Indie Bestseller List

Published Thursday, January 12, 2012 (for the sales week ended Sunday, January 8, 2012). Based on reporting from many hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States. For information on more titles, please visit , www.IndieBound.org

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Debuts for the week:
Hardcover Nonfiction
#13-Pity The Billionaire, by Thomas Frank (9780805093698)
Paperback Fiction
#14-The House at Tyneford, by Natasha Solomons (9780452297647)
Paperback Nonfiction
#1-Bossypants, by Tina Fey (9780316056878)
#7-The Social Animal, by David Brooks (9780812979374)
Mass Market
#10-The Jefferson Key, by Steve Berry (9780345505521)
Children’s Interest
#9-Why We Broke Up, by Daniel Handler, Maira Kalman (Illus.) (9780316127257)
Children’s Illustrated
#12-Hug Time, by Patrick McDonnell (9780316182959)
#14-Pinkalicious: Pink of Hearts, by Victoria Kann, Victoria Kann (Illus.) ( 9780061989230)
Children’s Fiction Series
New: Abe Lincoln at Last! (Magic Tree House) by Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.) (9780375868252)
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307959850
2. The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes, Knopf, $23.95, 9780307957122
3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307269997
4. State of Wonder
Ann Patchett, Harper, $26.99, 9780062049803
5. 1Q84
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30.50, 9780307593313
6. The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides, FSG, $28, 9780374203054
7. 11/22/63
Stephen King, Scribner, $35, 9781451627282
8. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309
9. The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385534635
10. Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward, Bloomsbury, $24, 9781608195220
11. The Litigators
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535137
12. A Dance With Dragons
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $35, 9780553801477
13. The Cat's Table
Michael Ondaatje, Knopf, $26, 9780307700117
14. The Leopard
Jo Nesbø, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307595874
15. The Drop
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316069410
ON THE RISE:
19. Breakdown
Sara Paretsky, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399157837
V.I. Warshawski investigates the murder of a man found stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying.

HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781451648539
2. Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, FSG, $30, 9780374275631
3. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168
4. Catherine the Great
Robert K. Massie, Random House, $35, 9780679456728
5. In the Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson, Crown, $26, 9780307408846
6. Goodnight iPad
Ann Droyd, Blue Rider, $14.95, 9780399158568
7. Go the F**k to Sleep
Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (Illus.), Akashic, $14.95, 9781617750250
8. Killing Lincoln
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805093070
9. Boomerang
Michael Lewis, Norton, $25.95, 9780393081817
10. The Swerve
Stephen J. Greenblatt, Norton, $26.95, 9780393064476
11. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Mindy Kaling, Crown Archetype, $25, 9780307886262
12. Blue Nights
Joan Didion, Knopf, $25, 9780307267672
13. Pity The Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right- Debut
Thomas Frank, Metropolitan, $25, 9780805093698
14. Jack Kennedy
Chris Matthews, S&S, $27.50, 9781451635089
15. A History of the World in 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor, Viking, $45, 9780670022700
ON THE RISE:
21. American Sniper
Chris Kyle, et al., Morrow, $26.99, 9780062082350
An eyewitness account of war by a Navy SEAL who is the most lethal sniper in United States military history.

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht, Random House, $15, 9780385343848
2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307949493
3. The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132
4. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer, Mariner, $14.95, 9780547735023
5. Swamplandia!
Karen Russell, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307276681
6. A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477
7. The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307454553
8. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
John le Carré, Penguin, $16, 9780143120933
9. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
10. A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness, Penguin, $16, 9780143119685
11. Sarah's Key
Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $13.99, 9781250004345
12. Room
Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328
13. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223
14. The House at Tyneford- Debut
Natasha Solomons, Plume, $15, 9780452297647
15. Freedom
Jonathan Franzen, Picador, $16, 9780312576462
ON THE RISE:
17. Smut: Stories
Alan Bennett, Picador, $14, 9781250003164
Bennett explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories.

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Bossypants- Debut
Tina Fey, Reagan Arthur Books, $15.99, 9780316056878
2. Unlikely Friendships
Jennifer S. Holland, Workman, $13.95, 9780761159131
3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, Broadway, $16, 9781400052189
4. Heaven Is for Real
Todd Burpo, Thomas Nelson, $16.99, 9780849946158
5. Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316001946
6. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2012
Sarah Janssen (Ed.), World Almanac, $12.99, 9781600571480
7. The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement- Debut
David Brooks, Random House, $16, 9780812979374
8. Born to Run
Christopher McDougall, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307279187
9. The Hare With Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal, Picador, $16, 9780312569372
10. The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin, Harper, $14.99, 9780061583261
11. Empire of the Summer Moon
S.C. Gwynne, Scribner, $16, 9781416591061
12. At Home
Bill Bryson, Anchor, $15.95, 9780767919395
13. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $16, 9780060936228
14. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2012
Old Farmer's Almanac, $6.95, 9781571985446
15. Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316017930
ON THE RISE:
17. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua, Penguin, $16, 9780143120582
Chua's bestselling tale of raising her children in the Chinese tradition is available in paperback.

MASS MARKET
1. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553593716
2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307949486
3. A Clash of Kings
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553579901
4. The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307949509
5. A Storm of Swords
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553573428
6. A Feast for Crows
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553582024
7. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition
Merriam-Webster, $7.50, 9780877799290
8. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Warner, $7.99, 9780446310789
9. Minding Frankie
Maeve Binchy, Anchor, $7.99, 9780307475497
10. The Jefferson Key- Debut
Steve Berry, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345505521

CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. War Horse
Michael Morpurgo, Scholastic, $8.99, 9780545403351
2. Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick, Scholastic, $29.99, 9780545027892
3. Every Thing On It
Shel Silverstein, Harper, $19.99, 9780061998164
4. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $12.99, 9780375842207
5. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick, Scholastic, $24.99, 9780439813785
6. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $17.99, 9781594744761
7. The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810989955
8. LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia
Hannah Dolan, DK Publishing, $18.99, 9780756686970
9. Why We Broke Up- Debut
Daniel Handler, Maira Kalman (Illus.), Little Brown, $19.99, 9780316127257
10. Wildwood
Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Balzer & Bray/Harper, $17.99, 9780062024688
11. The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales
Chris Van Allsburg, et al., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24.99, 9780547548104
12. The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illus.), Yearling, $6.99, 9780394820378
13. The Future of Us
Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler, Razorbill, $18.99, 9781595144911
14. Thirteen Reasons Why
Jay Asher, Razorbill, $10.99, 9781595141880
15. The Apothecary
Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr (Illus.), Putnam, $16.99, 9780399256271

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
2. I Want My Hat Back
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $15.99, 9780763655983
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
4. Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld (Illus.), Chronicle, $16.99, 9780811877824
5. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $7.99, 9780399230035
6. Stuck
Oliver Jeffers, Philomel, $16.99, 9780399257377
7. On the Night You Were Born
Nancy Tillman, Feiwel & Friends, $7.99, 9780312601553
8. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden, $9.99, 9780307120007
9. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $17.95, 9780060254926
10. If You Give a Dog a Donut
Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illus.), Balzer & Bray/Harper, $16.99, 9780060266837
11. The Wizard of Oz: A Scanimation Book
Rufus Butler Seder (Illus.), Workman, $14.95, 9780761163732
12. Hug Time- Debut
Patrick McDonnell, LB Kids, $6.99, 9780316182959
13. The Runaway Bunny
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780061074295
14. Pinkalicious: Pink of Hearts- Debut
Victoria Kann, Victoria Kann (Illus.), HarperFestival, $6.99, 9780061989230
15. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Eric Carle (Illus.), Holt, $7.95, 9780805047905

CHILDREN'S FICTION SERIES
1. The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic
2. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
New in Series: Abe Lincoln at Last! (9780375868252)
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet
4. Inheritance Cycle (hardcover and paperback)
Christopher Paolini, Knopf
5. Pretty Little Liars (hardcover and paperback)
Sara Shepard, Harper
6. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Miramax
7. Ivy & Bean (hardcover and paperback)
Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.), Chronicle
8. Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback)
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books
9. The Secret Series (hardcover and paperback)
Pseudonymous Bosch, Little Brown
10. The Heroes of Olympus (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion

OTHER INDIE FAVORITES
Hardcover
FROM THE MEMOIRS OF A NON-ENEMY COMBATANT: A Novel by Alex Gilvarry (Viking Adult, $26.95, 9780670023196) “This is a bold book. It is bold in its style, its thesis, and its story. While Gilvarry’s narrative and characters are big and playful, the underlying dilemmas are deadly serious: What happens to those falsely accused or mistakenly detained when the remedies of the American criminal justice system are unavailable to them? How does one prove one’s innocence when the system is set up to prove one’s guilt? Gilvarry skillfully navigates the space between black comedy and farce without delivering a polemic and instead gives us a novel that is delightful without being light.” -- Catherine Weller, Weller Book Works, Salt Lake City, UT

THE JOURNAL OF BEST PRACTICES: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man’s Quest to Be a Better Husband by David Finch (Scribner, $25, 9781439189719) “After five years of a struggling marriage, Finch’s wife, Kris, made a breakthrough guess — her husband had Asperger syndrome. The Journal of Best Practices is David Finch’s well-documented attempt to go beyond his previous efforts at fitting in and to actually learn to do things like listen, empathize, and ‘go with the flow.’ Finch still doesn’t like flying in a plane or unsolicited wetness, but the results of his determination are not just meaningful to his family, but also an enlightening, endearing, and amusing chronicle for the rest of us.” -- Daniel Goldin, Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee, WI

Paperback
BLUEPRINTS OF THE AFTERLIFE: A Novel by Ryan Boudinot (Black Cat, $14, 9780802170910) “It’s not just that there’s Seattle lurking, both familiar and eerily altered, in Boudinot’s joltingly intense new novel set in a not-so-distant future; it’s also that the people who inhabit Blueprints of the Afterlife take as given this strange new world. They give it battle, still going at life in full-tilted measure as much as anyone ever could — even if it means sometimes facing the clone of someone who is known or loved. This is a brave, daring, entrancing book, one that elicits empathy for the characters in it, even as it makes you look at the real world around you with different, startled eyes.” -- Rick Simonson, The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA

For Ages 9 to 12
AN ELEPHANT IN THE GARDEN by Michael Morpurgo (Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9780312593698) “Confined to her nursing home bed, 82-year-old Lizzie tells an outrageous but true story to Karl and his mother. While awaiting the return of Papi from World War II, 16-year-old Lizzie, her young brother, Karli, and her mother make their garden home to a four-year-old orphaned elephant from the zoo. Dresden, Germany, is sure to be bombed, and the zoo will be forced to kill the larger animals that may pose a threat to the city. Marlene, the adored elephant, breaks loose, beginning a chase that leads them away from Dresden and saves them from warfare. Lizzie’s story is laced with details that bring history to life.” -- Jane Morck, Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, WA