NPR Bestsellers: Week Of May 23, 2013 : NPR

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A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

Hardcover Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Inferno	Dan Brown	1
2	A Delicate Truth	John Le Carre	2
3	The Woman Upstairs	Claire Messud	3
4	Life After Life	Kate Atkinson	7
5	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	49
6	The Burgess Boys	Elizabeth Strout	8
7	Paris	Edward Rutherfurd	4
8	Dead Ever After	Charlaine Harris	2
9	Z	Therese Anne Fowler	8
10	All That Is	James Salter	7
11	The Interestings	Meg Wolitzer	6
12	Maya's Notebook	Isabel Allende	4
13	The Hit	David Baldacci	4
14	Americanah	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	1
15	A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena	Anthony Marra	1

Hardcover Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls	David Sedaris	4
2	Lean In	Sheryl Sandberg	10
3	Cooked	Michael Pollan	4
4	The Guns at Last Light	Rick Atkinson	1
5	I Could Pee On This	Francesco Marciuliano	39
6	Vader's Little Princess	Jeffrey Brown	4
7	Bunker Hill	Nathaniel Philbrick	3
8	It's All Good	Gwyneth Paltrow	7
9	Country Girl	Edna O'Brien	2
10	Help, Thanks, Wow	Anne Lamott	27
11	Gulp	Mary Roach	7
12	Darth Vader And Son	Jeffrey Brown	23
13	The Drunken Botanist	Amy Stewart	10
14	VB6	Mark Bittman and Dean Ornish	3
15	The Outsider	Jimmy Connors	1

Paperback Fictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	4
2	Beautiful Ruins	Jess Walter	7
3	Where'd You Go, Bernadette	Maria Semple	7
4	The Orphan Master's Son	Adam Johnson	5
5	Bring Up The Bodies	Hilary Mantel	2
6	The Light Between Oceans	M.L. Stedman	7
7	The Art Forger	B. A. Shapiro	3
8	The Orchardist	Amanda Coplin	11
9	The Yellow Birds	Kevin Powers	3
10	The Language Of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	58
11	Broken Harbor	Tana French	3
12	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	25
13	The Dog Stars	Peter Heller	1
14	The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry	Rachel Joyce	8
15	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	47

Paperback Nonfictionsee full list

Pos.	Title	Author	Weeks on List
denotes NPR coverage
1	Wild	Cheryl Strayed	8
2	Proof Of Heaven	Eben Alexander, M.D.	29
3	Quiet	Susan Cain	16
4	Thinking, Fast And Slow	Daniel Kahneman	7
5	Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake	Anna Quindlen	4
6	Let's Pretend This Never Happened	Jenny Lawson	11
7	Why Does The World Exist?	Jim Holt	7
8	Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)	Mindy Kaling	33
9	When Women Were Birds	Terry Tempest Williams	8
10	Bossypants	Tina Fey	70
11	Escape From Camp 14	Blaine Harden	7
12	F In Exams	Richard Benson	74
13	Unlikely Friendships	Jennifer S. Holland	89
14	Wreck This Journal	Keri Smith	1
15	The Swerve	Stephen Greenblatt	35

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide

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