U.S. Best-selling books for Feb. 21

IndieBound.org compiles a weekly list of best-selling books from independently owned bookstores.

Fiction

1. Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James (Knopf)

2. Kill Shot: An American Assassin Thriller by Vince Flynn (Atria/Emily Bestler Books)

3. The Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes (Knopf)

4. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (Little, Brown & Co.)

5. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (Ballantine Books)

6. Raylan by Elmore Leonard (William Morrow & Co.)

7. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (Harper)

8. Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George (Dutton Adult)

9. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)

10. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (Scribner)

Nonfiction

1. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (Random House)

2. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)

3. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain (Crown)

4. The End of Illness by David B. Agus, M.D. (Free Press)

5. All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps by Dave Isay (Penguin Press HC)

6. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

7. Bringing up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman (Penguin Press HC)

8. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)

9. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (Henry Holt & Co.)

10. Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath by Mimi Alford (Random House)

The Wall Street Journal gathers point-of-sale book data from more than 11,000 locations across the U.S., representing about 75 percent of the nation’s book sales. Data providers include all major booksellers and Web retailers and food stores (excluding Walmart and Sam’s Club).

Fiction

1. Kill Shot: An American Assassin Thriller by Vince Flynn (Atria/Emily Bestler Books)

2. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)

3. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)

4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney (Abrams)

5. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)

6. Catch Me by Lisa Gardner (Dutton Books)

7. Private: Number 1 Suspect by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown)

8. Defending Jacob by William Landay (Delacorte Press)

9. Home Front by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press)

10. Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet by Jane O’Connor (HarperCollins)

Nonfiction

1. Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions)

2. American Sniper: The autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle, Jim DeFelice and Scott McEwen (Morrow)

3. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (Henry Holt & Co.)

4. Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence by Sarah Young (Integrity Publishers)

5. Hilarity Ensues by Tucker Max (Blue Heeler Books)

6. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)

7. Take the Stairs by Rory Vaden (Perigee Books)

8. The End of Illness by David B. Agus (Free Press)

9. StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath (Gallup Press)

10. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain (Crown)

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