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U.S. Best-selling books for May 14

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

Fiction

1. The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)

2. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books)

3. Maya’s Notebook by Isabel Allende (Harper)

4. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Crown)

5. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud (Knopf)

6. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (Riverhead Hardcover)

7. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler (St. Martin’s Press)

8. All That Is by James Salter (Knopf)

9. Paris: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd (Doubleday)

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. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking Adult)

5. I Could Pee on This and Other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliano (Chronicle Books)

6. Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir by Amanda Knox (Harper)

7. Vader’s Little Princess by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle Books)

8. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach (W. W. Norton & Company)

9. It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great by Gwyneth Paltrow (Grand Central Life & Style)

10. Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O’Brien (Little, Brown and Co.)

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. 12th of Never by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown & Co.)

2. The Hit by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)

3. Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts (Putnam)

4. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss (Random House Children’s Books)

5. Daddy’s Gone A Hunting by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster)

6. Fly Away by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press)

7. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill (William Morrow & Co.)

8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books)

9. Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer (St. Martin’s Press)

10. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Dutton Books)

Nonfiction

1. Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir by Amanda Knox (Harper)

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. Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan (The Penguin Press)

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. Life Code by Phil McGraw (Bird Street Books)

9. Jumpstart to Skinny: The Simple 3-Week Plan for Supercharged Weight Loss by Bob Harper and Greg Critser (Ballantine)

10. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking Adult)



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