IndieBound.org compiles a weekly list of best-selling books from independently owned bookstores.
Fiction
1. A Delicate Truth by John le Carre (Viking Adult)
2. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books)
3. The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
4. Dead Ever After: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel by Charlaine Harris (Ace Hardcover)
5. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud (Knopf)
6. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Crown)
7. Maya’s Notebook by Isabel Allende (Harper)
8. Paris: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd (Doubleday)
9. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler (St. Martin’s Press)
10. The Hit by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
Nonfiction
1. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris (Little, Brown and Co.)
2. Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press HC)
3. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg (Knopf)
4. I Could Pee on This and Other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliano (Chronicle Books)
5. Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou (Random House)
6. Vader’s Little Princess by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle Books)
7. It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great by Gwyneth Paltrow (Grand Central Life & Style)
8. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking Adult)
9. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach (W. W. Norton & Company)
10. Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott (Riverhead Hardcover)
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Fiction
1. Dead Ever After: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel by Charlaine Harris (Ace Hardcover)
2. 12th of Never by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown & Co.)
3. Silken Prey by John Sandford (Putnam)
4. The Hit by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
5. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! By Dr. Seuss (Random House Children’s Books)
6. A Step of Faith: A Novel (Walk) by Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster)
7. Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts (Putnam)
8. A Delicate Truth by John le Carre (Viking Adult)
9. Daddy’s Gone A Hunting by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster)
10. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey (Putnam Publishing Group)
Nonfiction
1. Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander by Phil Robertson and Mark Schlabach (Howard Books)
2. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg (Knopf)
3. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris (Little, Brown & Co.)
4. Jesus Calling: Enjoy Peace in His Presence by Sarah Young (Thomas Nelson Publishers)
5. The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson (Howard Books)
6. Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir by Amanda Knox (Harper)
7. Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan (The Penguin Press)
8. It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great by Gwyneth Paltrow (Grand Central Life & Style)
9. Keep it Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World by Bill O’Reilly (Crown-Archetype)
10. StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath (Gallup Press)
