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BESTSELLERS
June 11 - June 17, 2012 Edition

The Indie Bestseller List

Published Thursday, June 14, 2012 (for the sales week ended Sunday, June 10, 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 Fiction
#1-Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn (9780307588364)
#13-Kiss the Dead, by Laurell K. Hamilton (9780425247549)
Hardcover Nonfiction
#6-The Amateur, by Edward Klein (9781596987852)
Paperback Fiction
#15-Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline (9780307887443)
Children’s Fiction Series
New: Tales From a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess (Dork Diaries) by Rachel Renee Russell (9781442411920)
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Gone Girl- Debut
Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25, 9780307588364
2. Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel, Holt, $28, 9780805090031
3. Canada
Richard Ford, Ecco, $27.99, 9780061692048
4. In One Person
John Irving, S&S, $28, 9781451664126
5. Calico Joe
John Grisham, Doubleday, $24.95, 9780385536073
6. Home
Toni Morrison, Knopf, $24, 9780307594167
7. A Dance With Dragons
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $35, 9780553801477
8. Sacré Bleu
Christopher Moore, Morrow, $26.99, 9780061779749
9. Istanbul Passage
Joseph Kanon, Atria, $26, 9781439156414
10. A Blaze of Glory
Jeff Shaara, Ballantine, $28, 9780345527356
11. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309
12. The Innocent
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446572996
13. Kiss the Dead- Debut
Laurell K. Hamilton, Berkley, $27.95, 9780425247549
14. Stolen Prey
John Sandford, Putnam Adult, $27.95, 9780399157684
15. The Wind Through the Keyhole
Stephen King, Scribner, $27, 9781451658903
ON THE RISE:
16. Redshirts
John Scalzi, Tor, $24.99, 9780765316998
A riveting new science fiction novel by the author of Old Man's War.

HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307592736
2. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Anna Quindlen, Random House, $26, 9781400069347
3. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168
4. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro, Knopf, $35, 9780679405078
5. American Grown
Michelle Obama, Crown, $30, 9780307956026
6. The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House- Debut
Edward Klein, Regnery, $27.95, 9781596987852
7. I Am a Pole (and So Can You!)
Stephen Colbert, Paul Hildebrandt (Illus.), Grand Central, $15.99, 9781455523429
8. Imagine
Jonah Lehrer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 9780547386072
9. Cronkite
Douglas Brinkley, Harper, $34.99, 9780061374265
10. Drift
Rachel Maddow, Crown, $25, 9780307460981
11. Are You My Mother?
Alison Bechdel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22, 9780618982509
12. It Worked For Me
Colin Powell, Harper, $27.99, 9780062135124
13. Killing Lincoln
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805093070
14. The Presidents Club
Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy, S&S, $32.5, 9781439127704
15. Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781451648539

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803481
2. Fifty Shades Darker
E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803498
3. Fifty Shades Freed
E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803504
4. State of Wonder
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062049810
5. The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316126670
6. The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307947727
7. Caleb's Crossing
Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $16, 9780143121077
8. The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Ballantine, $15, 9780345525550
9. Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16, 9780312429980
10. The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht, Random House, $15, 9780385343848
11. Maine
J.Courtney Sullivan, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307742216
12. The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka, Anchor, $13.95, 9780307744425
13. The Weird Sisters
Eleanor Brown, Berkley, $15, 9780425244142
14. Swamplandia!
Karen Russell, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307276681
15. Ready Player One- Debut
Ernest Cline, Broadway, $14, 9780307887443
ON THE RISE:
20. The Drop
Michael Connelly, Grand Central, $14.99, 9781455518982
Connelly's masterful Harry Bosch thriller is now available in paperback.

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. In the Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson, Broadway, $16, 9780307408853
2. Bossypants
Tina Fey, Reagan Arthur Books, $15.99, 9780316056878
3. Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Mark Adams, Plume, $16, 9780452297982
4. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, Broadway, $16, 9781400052189
5. F in Exams
Richard Benson, Chronicle, $9.95, 9780811878319
6. Unlikely Friendships
Jennifer S. Holland, Workman, $13.95, 9780761159131
7. The Greater Journey
David McCullough, S&S, $20, 9781416571773
8. Nothing Daunted
Dorothy Wickenden, Scribner, $15, 9781439176597
9. The Eighty-Dollar Champion
Elizabeth Letts, Ballantine, $16, 9780345521095
10. Heaven Is for Real
Todd Burpo, Thomas Nelson, $16.99, 9780849946158
11. Born to Run
Christopher McDougall, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307279187
12. The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin, Harper, $14.99, 9780061583261
13. Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316017930
14. Blue Nights
Joan Didion, Vintage, $15, 9780307387387
15. Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon, Workman, $10.95, 9780761169253
ON THE RISE:
18. To Heaven and Back
Mary C. Neal, Waterbrook Press, $14.99, 9780307731715
A kayak accident during a South American adventure takes one woman to heaven and back to life again.

MASS MARKET
1. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553593716
2. A Storm of Swords
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553573428
3. A Clash of Kings
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780345535429
4. A Feast for Crows
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553582024
5. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $6.99, 9780812550702
6. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Warner, $7.99, 9780446310789
7. The Affair
Lee Child, Dell, $9.99, 9780440246305
8. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Warner, $6.99, 9780316769488
9. Explosive Eighteen
Janet Evanovich, Bantam, $8.99, 9780345527738
10. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307742537

CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Fault in Our Stars
John Green, Dutton, $17.99, 9780525478812
2. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $12.99, 9780375842207
3. Wonder
R.J. Palacio, Knopf, $15.99, 9780375869020
4. Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth
Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper, $9.99, 9780062082930
5. Chomp
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $16.99, 9780375868429
6. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $17.99, 9781594744761
7. Bitterblue
Kristin Cashore, Dial, $19.99, 9780803734739
8. The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810989955
9. The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illus.), Yearling, $6.99, 9780394820378
10. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, Harper, $7.99, 9780061120268
11. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.), Little Brown, $11.99, 9780316013697
12. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick, Scholastic, $24.99, 9780439813785
13. We Are in a Book!
Mo Willems, Hyperion, $8.99, 9781423133087
14. Out of My Mind
Sharon M. Draper, Atheneum, $6.99, 9781416971719
15. Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick, Scholastic, $29.99, 9780545027892

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $17.99, 9780679805274
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
3. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $17.95, 9780060254926
4. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
5. The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?
Mo Willems, Hyperion, $15.99, 9781423151289
6. Ladybug Girl and Bingo
Jacky Davis, David Soman (Illus.), Dial, $16.99, 9780803735828
7. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $7.99, 9780399230035
8. I Want My Hat Back
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $15.99, 9780763655983
9. Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld (Illus.), Chronicle, $16.99, 9780811877824
10. Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons
Eric Litwin, James Dean (Illus.), Harper, $16.99, 9780062110589
11. On the Night You Were Born
Nancy Tillman, Feiwel & Friends, $7.99, 9780312601553
12. Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $7.99, 9780140564341
13. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden, $9.99, 9780307120007
14. The Lorax
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $14.95, 9780394823379
15. Press Here
Herve Tullet, Chronicle, $15.99, 9780811879545

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
3. The Kane Chronicles (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion
4. Divergent Series (hardcover and paperback)
Veronica Roth, Katherine Tegen Books
5. The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (hardcover and paperback)
Michael Scott, Delacorte
6. Dork Diaries (hardcover)
Rachel Renee Russell, Aladdin
New in Series: Tales From a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess (9781442411920)
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet
8. Ivy & Bean (hardcover and paperback)
Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.), Chronicle
9. Ranger's Apprentice (hardcover and paperback)
John Flanagan, Puffin
10. Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback)
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books

OTHER INDIE FAVORITES
Hardcover
THE CHAPERONE: A Novel by Laura Moriarty (Riverhead Hardcover, $26.95, 9781594487019)
“Silent film star Louise Brooks was accustomed to being the center of attention, but that is not the case in this exquisite novel about the summer of 1922 when 15-year-old Louise traveled to New York for dance training. At the center of this story is her chaperone, 36-year-old Cora Carlisle, who has reasons of her own for traveling to New York that fateful summer. Cora’s story is one of casting after the classic American dream with a few unexpected twists, and Moriarty’s writing captures it perfectly.” -- Katherine Osborne, Kennebooks, Kennebunk, ME

THE WATCHERS: A Novel by Jon Steele (Blue Rider Press, $26.95, 9780399158742) “Set in the gothic Lausanne Cathedral, this is a haunting and beautiful tale of fallen angels, the innocents and the not-so-innocent who fall prey to them, and those who are there to defend against evil. Steele offers a terrifyingly suspenseful yet mystical and extremely tender story, and the reader will wonder who and what are real and who and what they can trust.” -- Lynn Pellerito Riehl, Nicola’s Books, Ann Arbor, MI

Paperback
JOY FOR BEGINNERS: A Novel by Erica Bauermeister (Berkley, $15, 9780425247426) “Kate has conquered cancer, and now she has the goal to ride the white-water rapids in the Grand Canyon. During a celebration dinner, she gives each of her six friends an equally personal challenge. Bauermeister masterfully weaves the stories of the seven women together, allowing the reader to empathize with and root for each one as she jumps her own personal hurdle. A great selection for book clubs!” -- Sam Droke-Dickinson, Aaron’s Books, Lititz, PA

For Ages 4 to 8
FLYING THE DRAGON by Natalie Dias Lorenzi (Charlesbridge, $16.95, 9781580894340) “Skye is a soccer-loving American girl, whose relatives are moving to the U.S. for her grandfather’s cancer treatments. In order to help the grandfather whom she has never met, she will have to take a Japanese-language course on Saturdays, and that means losing her place on the all-star soccer team. Skye’s cousin, Hiroshi, has to leave his home in Japan, move to America, and take English lessons. As the cousins struggle with change, their language barrier, and a rivalry for their grandfather’s affection, training for rokkaku — competitive kite fighting — brings them together and helps them find the strength and courage to overcome the obstacles they both face.” -- Amy Hussin, Dragonwings Bookstore, Waupaca, WI