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BESTSELLERS
Nov 5 - Nov 11, 2012 Edition

The Indie Bestseller List

Published Thursday, November 8, 2012 (for the sales week ended Sunday, November 4, 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-The Racketeer, by John Grisham (9780385535144)
#4-Back to Blood, by Tom Wolfe (9780316036313)
Hardcover Nonfiction
#1-Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust, by Ina Garten (9780307464873)
#8-The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, by Deb Perelman (9780307595652)
#11-The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965, by William Manchester, Paul Reid (9780316547703)
#12-Elsewhere, by Richard Russo (9780307959539)
Paperback Fiction
#12-Reflected in You, by Sylvia Day (9780425263914)
Paperback Nonfiction
#3-Proof of Heaven, by Eben Alexander, M.D. (9781451695199)
Mass Market
#4-V Is for Vengeance, by Sue Grafton (9780425250563)
Children’s Interest
#1-Who Could That Be at This Hour? by Lemony Snicket (9780316123082)
#2-Lego Ninjago: Character Encyclopedia, by DK Publishing (9780756698126)
#10-The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, by Catherynne M. Valente, Ana Juan (Illus.) (9781250010193)
Children’s Illustrated
#7-The Thankful Book, by Todd Parr (9780316181013)
Children’s Fiction Series
New: The Hunters (The Brotherband Chronicles) by John Flanagan (9780399256219)
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Racketeer- Debut
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535144
2. The Casual Vacancy
J.K. Rowling, Little Brown, $35, 9780316228534
3. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25, 9780307588364
4. Back to Blood- Debut
Tom Wolfe, Little Brown, $30, 9780316036313
5. The Round House
Louise Erdrich, Harper, $27.99, 9780062065247
6. This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Díaz, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594487361
7. Winter of the World
Ken Follett, Dutton, $36, 9780525952923
8. The Panther
Nelson DeMille, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446580847
9. Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon, Harper, $27.99, 9780061493348
10. The Twelve
Justin Cronin, Ballantine, $28, 9780345504982
11. A Thousand Mornings
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $24.95, 9781594204777
12. The Secret Keeper
Kate Morton, Atria, $26.99, 9781439152805
13. Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel, Holt, $28, 9780805090031
14. Live By Night
Dennis Lehane, Morrow, $27.99, 9780060004873
15. Phantom
Jo Nesbø, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307960474
ON THE RISE:
16. The Art Forger
B.A. Shapiro, Algonquin, $23.95, 9781616201326
Shapiro's dazzling literary thriller is a November 2012 Indie Next List Great Read.

HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust- Debut
Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9780307464873
2. Killing Kennedy
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805096668
3. I Could Pee on This
Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle, $12.95, 9781452110585
4. Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307592736
5. No Easy Day
Mark Owen, Dutton, $26.95, 9780525953722
6. America Again
Stephen Colbert, Grand Central, $28.99, 9780446583978
7. Waging Heavy Peace
Neil Young, Blue Rider, $30, 9780399159466
8. The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook- Debut
Deb Perelman, Knopf, $35, 9780307595652
9. Killing Lincoln
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805093070
10. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
Timothy Egan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780618969029
11. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965- Debut
William Manchester, Paul Reid, Little Brown, $40, 9780316547703
12. Elsewhere: A Memoir- Debut
Richard Russo, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307959539
13. The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver, Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594204111
14. How Music Works
David Byrne, McSweeney's, $32, 9781936365531
15. The End of Your Life Book Club
Will Schwalbe, Knopf, $25, 9780307594037
ON THE RISE:
16. Bruce
Peter Ames Carlin, Touchstone, $28, 9781439191828
Carlin's sweeping biography of rock legend Bruce Springsteen.

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell, Random House, $15, 9780812984415
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $14, 9781451696196
3. Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803481
4. The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307947727
5. Fifty Shades Darker
E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803498
6. The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides, Picador, $16, 9781250014764
7. State of Wonder
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062049810
8. Life of Pi
Yann Martel, Mariner, $15.95, 9780547848419
9. The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern, Anchor, $15, 9780307744432
10. Fifty Shades Freed
E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803504
11. Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16, 9780312429980
12. Reflected in You- Debut
Sylvia Day, Berkley, $15, 9780425263914
13. The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Ballantine, $15, 9780345525550
14. The Best American Short Stories 2012
Tom Perrotta, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780547242101
15. Rules of Civility
Amor Towles, Penguin, $16, 9780143121169
ON THE RISE:
18. The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey, Reagan Arthur Books, $14.99, 9780316175661
Ivey's touching novel is set in the Alaskan wilderness of the 1920s.

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Swerve
Stephen J. Greenblatt, Norton, $16.95, 9780393343403
2. In the Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson, Broadway, $16, 9780307408853
3. Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife- Debut
Eben Alexander, M.D., S&S, $15.99, 9781451695199
4. To Heaven and Back
Mary C. Neal, Waterbrook, $14.99, 9780307731715
5. The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger, $16.95, 9781572245372
6. Catherine the Great
Robert K. Massie, Random House, $20, 9780345408778
7. Bossypants
Tina Fey, Reagan Arthur Books, $15.99, 9780316056878
8. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns)
Mindy Kaling, Three Rivers, $14, 9780307886279
9. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2013
Old Farmer's Almanac, $6.95, 9781571985736
10. Arguably
Christopher Hitchens, Twelve, $18, 9781455502783
11. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, Broadway, $16, 9781400052189
12. Unlikely Friendships
Jennifer S. Holland, Workman, $13.95, 9780761159131
13. Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307949332
14. How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062124296
15. The Best American Essays 2012
David Brooks, Robert Atwan (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780547840093

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. Fall of Giants
Ken Follett, Signet, $9.99, 9780451232854
4. V Is for Vengeance- Debut
Sue Grafton, Berkley, $7.99, 9780425250563
5. A Feast for Crows
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553582024
6. A Clash of Kings
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780345535429
7. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
8. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Warner, $7.99, 9780446310789
9. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Warner, $6.99, 9780316769488
10. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $6.99, 9780812550702

CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Who Could That Be at This Hour?- Debut
Lemony Snicket, Little Brown, $15.99, 9780316123082
2. Lego Ninjago: Character Encyclopedia- Debut
DK Publishing, $18.99, 9780756698126
3. Son
Lois Lowry, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99, 9780547887203
4. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $12.99, 9780375842207
5. Wonder
R.J. Palacio, Knopf, $15.99, 9780375869020
6. The Fault in Our Stars
John Green, Dutton, $17.99, 9780525478812
7. Drama
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545326995
8. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Laurel-Leaf, $6.99, 9780440237686
9. The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810989955
10. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making- Debut
Catherynne M. Valente, Ana Juan (Illus.), Square Fish, $6.99, 9781250010193
11. Star Wars Origami
Chris Alexander, Workman, $16.95, 9780761169437
12. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, Harper, $7.99, 9780061120268
13. Looking for Alaska
John Green, Puffin, $9.99, 9780142402511
14. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.), Little Brown, $14.99, 9780316013697
15. The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit
Emma Thompson, Eleanor Taylor (Illus.), Frederick Warne and Company, $20, 9780723269106

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
2. Safari: A Photicular Book
Dan Kainen, Carol Kaufmann, Workman, $24.95, 9780761163800
3. This Is Not My Hat
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $15.99, 9780763655990
4. I Want My Hat Back
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $15.99, 9780763655983
5. Olivia and the Fairy Princesses
Ian Falconer, Atheneum, $17.99, 9781442450271
6. Skippyjon Jones Cirque de Olé
Judy Schachner, Dial, $17.99, 9780803737822
7. The Thankful Book- Debut
Todd Parr, Little Brown, $9.99, 9780316181013
8. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
9. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $17.95, 9780060254926
10. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $7.99, 9780399230035
11. Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld (Illus.), Chronicle, $16.99, 9780811877824
12. On the Night You Were Born
Nancy Tillman, Feiwel & Friends, $7.99, 9780312601553
13. Mossy
Jan Brett, Putnam, $17.99, 9780399257827
14. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Eric Carle (Illus.), Holt, $7.95, 9780805047905
15. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden, $9.99, 9780307120007

CHILDREN'S FICTION SERIES
1. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
2. The Heroes of Olympus (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion
3. The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet
5. Ivy & Bean (hardcover and paperback)
Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.), Chronicle
6. Elephant & Piggie (hardcover and paperback)
Mo Willems, Hyperion
7. Captain Underpants (hardcover and paperback)
Dav Pilkey, Scholastic
8. Dork Diaries (hardcover)
Rachel Renee Russell, Aladdin
9. The Brotherband Chronicles (hardcover and paperback)
John Flanagan, Puffin
New in Series: The Hunters (9780399256219)
10. Divergent (hardcover and paperback)
Veronica Roth, Katherine Tegen Books

OTHER INDIE FAVORITES
Hardcover
MRS. QUEEN TAKES THE TRAIN: A Novel by William Kuhn (Harper, $25.99, 9780062208286)
“The Queen has tried to stay up to date, practicing yoga and learning to surf the Internet, but decades of pomp and circumstance have taken their toll and Her Majesty needs a break. She sets off alone — well-disguised in a skull-motif hoodie — on a train to Scotland, only to be pursued by a motley crew of royal attendants determined to bring her home before she creates a royal scandal. This debut novel is thoroughly fresh and charming, an imaginative story about the most famous woman who almost no one really knows.” -- Jody Misner Chwatun, Saturn Booksellers, Gaylord, MI

THE MIDDLESTEINS: A Novel by Jami Attenberg (Grand Central Publishing, $24.99, 9781455507214) “Just when you think you’re done reading about dysfunctional American families, a novel like The Middlesteins comes along and blows you away. You will become deeply invested in the loves and longings of the eponymous, semi-chaotic Jewish clan from Chicago. There’s Edie, the tough, fierce matriarch who can’t stop eating; Richard, the husband who leaves her; and Robin and Benny, the adult children, distracted by troubles of their own. Attenberg proves that there is still much more left to say — about family, heartache, and food — and so many fresh and funny ways to say it.” -- Elizabeth Sher, Politics & Prose Books and Coffee Shop, Washington, DC

Paperback
THE COLD COLD GROUND: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel by Adrian McKinty (Seventh Street Books, $15.95, 9781616147167) “McKinty drew on his own childhood in war-torn Northern Ireland to write this police procedural featuring Sean Duffy, a Roman Catholic cop stationed in a small Protestant police station outside Belfast in 1981, who is assigned to solve a gruesome murder that may be the work of a serial killer. McKinty evokes the everyday life of a community that is never too far from a bomb blast. The dry humor of the police station and the smart, complicated character of Duffy himself add extra layers of interest. A brilliant writer at the top of his already formidable game!” --
Seana Graham, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

For Ages 9 to 12
PRAIRIE EVERS by Ellen Airgood (Nancy Paulsen Books, $15.99, 9780399256912) “A coming-of-age story with chickens? Prairie Evers is a girl who prefers chickens over children, dictionaries over computers, and homeschooling over classrooms. Unfortunately, she is outvoted on the last one. How does a homeschooled North Carolina mountain girl fit into an upstate New York fifth grade class? As Prairie would say, it’s not all that easy to bring new chickens into the flock!” -- Jeanne Snyder, Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL