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Week of December 8, 2011

Indie Bestseller List

Week of December 8, 2011

This week's top five on the Indie Bestseller List are 11/22/63 by Stephen King, The Drop by Michael Connelly, The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes and The Litigators by John Grisham.

Published Thursday, December 8, 2011 (for the sales week ended Sunday, December 4, 2011).

Based on reporting from many hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States. For information on more titles, please visit IndieBound.org

Booksellers: The Indie Bestseller List may be downloaded as a color PDF for display in your store. Go to the Indie Bestseller page under the IndieBound section on BookWeb.org, or click on the bestseller link in Thursday'sBookselling This Week email.
 

Debuts for the week:
Hardcover Fiction
#2-The Drop, by Michael Connelly (9780316069410)
#13-The Scottish Prisoner, by Diana Gabaldon (9780385337519)
Paperback Nonfiction
#9-The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2012, Sarah Janssen (Ed.) (9781600571480)
Children’s Interest
#12-War Horse, by Michael Morpurgo (9780439796644)
Children’s Illustrated
#12-The Night Before Christmas, by Clement C. Moore, Corinne Malvern (Illus.) (9780375863592)
#14-The Twelve Days of Christmas, by Laurel Long (9780803733572)
#15-The Night Before Christmas, by Clement C. Moore, Charles Santore (Illus.) (9781604332377)
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. 11/22/63
Stephen King, Scribner, $35, 9781451627282
2. The Drop- Debut
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316069410
3. The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides, FSG, $28, 9780374203054
4. The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes, Knopf, $23.95, 9780307957122
5. The Litigators
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535137
6. 1Q84
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30.50, 9780307593313
7. The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316126694
8. V Is for Vengeance
Sue Grafton, Marian Wood Books/Putnam, $27.95, 9780399157868
9. The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385534635
10. The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 9780547577531
11. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309
12. Explosive Eighteen
Janet Evanovich, Bantam, $28, 9780345527714
13. The Scottish Prisoner- Debut
Diana Gabaldon, Delacorte, $28, 9780385337519
14. Out of Oz
Gregory Maguire, Morrow, $26.99, 9780060548940
15. State of Wonder
Ann Patchett, Harper, $26.99, 9780062049803
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781451648539
2. Catherine the Great
Robert K. Massie, Random House, $35, 9780679456728
3. Killing Lincoln
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805093070
4. Jack Kennedy
Chris Matthews, S&S, $27.50, 9781451635089
5. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168
6. Then Again
Diane Keaton, Random House, $26, 9781400068784
7. Go the F**k to Sleep
Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (Illus.), Akashic, $14.95, 9781617750250
8. Rin Tin Tin
Susan Orlean, S&S, $26.99, 9781439190135
9. Goodnight iPad
Ann Droyd, Blue Rider, $14.95, 9780399158568
10. Boomerang
Michael Lewis, Norton, $25.95, 9780393081817
11. In the Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson, Crown, $26, 9780307408846
12. Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, FSG, $30, 9780374275631
13. A History of the World in 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor, Viking, $45, 9780670022700
14. Blue Nights
Joan Didion, Knopf, $25, 9780307267672
15. Food Rules
Michael Pollan, Maira Kalman (Illus.), Penguin Press, $23.95, 9781594203084
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht, Random House, $15, 9780385343848
2. The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132
3. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
4. A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477
5. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus.), Back Bay, $13.99, 9780316038409
6. The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein, Harper, $14.99, 9780061537967
7. Sarah's Key
Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $13.99, 9781250004345
8. Freedom
Jonathan Franzen, Picador, $16, 9780312576462
9. Room
Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328
10. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223
11. An Object of Beauty
Steve Martin, Grand Central, $14.99, 9780446573658
12. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307949493
13. Started Early, Took My Dog
Kate Atkinson, Reagan Arthur Books, $14.99, 9780316066747
14. The Best American Short Stories 2011
Geraldine Brooks, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780547242163
15. Swamplandia!
Karen Russell, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307276681
ON THE RISE:
19. A Christmas Blizzard
Garrison Keillor, Penguin, $13, 9780143119883
A charming Dickensian holiday farce from the bestselling author and host of A Prairie Home Companion.
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Unlikely Friendships
Jennifer S. Holland, Workman, $13.95, 9780761159131
2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, Broadway, $16, 9781400052189
3. Heaven Is for Real
Todd Burpo, Thomas Nelson, $16.99, 9780849946158
4. At Home
Bill Bryson, Anchor, $15.95, 9780767919395
5. Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316001946
6. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2012
Old Farmer's Almanac, $6.95, 9781571985446
7. F in Exams
Richard Benson, Chronicle, $9.95, 9780811878319
8. Born to Run
Christopher McDougall, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307279187
9. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2012- Debut
Sarah Janssen (Ed.), World Almanac, $12.99, 9781600571480
10. Empire of the Summer Moon
S.C. Gwynne, Scribner, $16, 9781416591061
11. Awkward Family Pet Photos
Mike Bender, Doug Chernack, Three Rivers, $15, 9780307888129
12. The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $16.95, 9780679763888
13. The Hare With Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal, Picador, $16, 9780312569372
14. I Remember Nothing
Nora Ephron, Vintage, $14, 9780307742803
15. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $16, 9780060936228
 
MASS MARKET
1. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553593716
2. A Clash of Kings
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553579901
3. A Storm of Swords
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553573428
4. A Feast for Crows
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553582024
5. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307949486
6. Smokin' Seventeen
Janet Evanovich, Bantam, $8.99, 9780345527707
7. The Land of Painted Caves
Jean M. Auel, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553289435
8. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition
Merriam-Webster, $7.50, 9780877799290
9. The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307949509
10. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Warner, $7.99, 9780446310789
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick, Scholastic, $24.99, 9780439813785
2. Every Thing On It
Shel Silverstein, Harper, $19.99, 9780061998164
3. Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick, Scholastic, $29.99, 9780545027892
4. Wildwood
Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Balzer & Bray/Harper, $17.99, 9780062024688
5. The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illus.), Yearling, $6.99, 9780394820378
6. LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia
Hannah Dolan, DK Publishing, $18.99, 9780756686970
7. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $17.99, 9781594744761
8. The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories
Dr.Seuss, Random House, $15, 9780375864353
9. The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales
Chris Van Allsburg, et al., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24.99, 9780547548104
10. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Tom Angleberger, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810984257
11. The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810989955
12. War Horse- Debut
Michael Morpurgo, Scholastic, $6.99, 9780439796644
13. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $12.99, 9780375842207
14. The Apothecary
Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr (Illus.), Putnam, $16.99, 9780399256271
15. The Future of Us
Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler, Razorbill, $18.99, 9781595144911
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Home for Christmas
Jan Brett, Putnam, $17.99, 9780399256530
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
3. I Want My Hat Back
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $15.99, 9780763655983
4. The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg, Houghton Mifflin, $18.95, 9780395389492
5. Bad Kitty Christmas
Nick Bruel, Roaring Brook, $15.99, 9781596436688
6. The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse
Eric Carle, Philomel, $17.99, 9780399257131
7. The Elf on the Shelf
Carol Abersoldt, Coe Steinwart (Illus.), CCA and B, $20, 9780976990703
8. The Night Before Christmas
Jan Brett, Putnam, $20, 9780399256707
9. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $15, 9780394800790
10. If You Give a Dog a Donut
Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illus.), Balzer & Bray/Harper, $16.99, 9780060266837
11. Press Here
Herve Tullet, Chronicle, $14.99, 9780811879545
12. The Night Before Christmas- Debut
Clement C. Moore, Corinne Malvern (Illus.), Golden, $3.99, 9780375863592
13. The Wizard of Oz: A Scanimation Book
Rufus Butler Seder (Illus.), Workman, $14.95, 9780761163732
14. The Twelve Days of Christmas- Debut
Laurel Long, Dial, $16.99, 9780803733572
15. The Night Before Christmas- Debut
Clement C. Moore, Charles Santore (Illus.), Applesauce Press, $18.95, 9781604332377
 
CHILDREN'S FICTION SERIES
1. The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet
3. Inheritance Cycle (hardcover and paperback)
Christopher Paolini, Knopf
4. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
5. The Heroes of Olympus (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion
6. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Miramax
7. Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback)
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books
8. Ivy & Bean (hardcover and paperback)
Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.), Chronicle
9. The Secret Series (hardcover and paperback)
Pseudonymous Bosch, Little Brown
10. Twilight Saga (hardcover and paperback)
Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown