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Hardcover Fiction list for May 17, 2012,
for sales ending May 13, 2012.
Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.
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1. Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel (Holt, ISBN: 9780805090031);
Weeks on List: 1
"The sequel to Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize-winner, Wolf Hall, delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn."
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2. In One Person
by John Irving (S&S, ISBN: 9781451664126);
Weeks on List: 1
"Irving's intimate and unforgettable new novel about the life of a bisexual man is a May 2012 Indie Next List Great Read."
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3. Home
by Toni Morrison (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307594167);
Weeks on List: 1
"Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison new novel is a taut and tortured story about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war."
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4. Calico Joe
by John Grisham (Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385536073);
Last week: 2;
Weeks on List: 5
"A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball."
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5. Sacré Bleu
by Christopher Moore (Morrow, ISBN: 9780061779749);
Last week: 3;
Weeks on List: 6
"Moore's delectable confection of wit, intrigue, passion, and art history is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read."
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6. Deadlocked
by Charlaine Harris (Ace, ISBN: 9781937007447);
Last week: 1;
Weeks on List: 2
"Book 12 in the bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series."
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7. The Paris Wife
by Paula McLain (Ballantine, ISBN: 9780345521309);
Last week: 11;
Weeks on List: *
"McLain's rewarding new novel about the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Richardson Hemingway."
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8. The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, ISBN: 9780307378408);
Last week: 5;
Weeks on List: 6
"McCall Smith's 13th installment in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series."
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9. The Beginner's Goodbye
by Anne Tyler (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307957276);
Last week: 8;
Weeks on List: 6
"Tyler's haunting and deeply moving new novel about a man grieving the death of his wife is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read."
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10. The Innocent
by David Baldacci (Grand Central, ISBN: 9780446572996);
Last week: 7;
Weeks on List: 4
"A riveting new thriller by the bestselling author of Absolute Power."
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11. 11th Hour
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Little Brown, ISBN: 9780316097499);
Weeks on List: 1
"The latest novel in the bestselling Women's Murder Club series."
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12. The Wind Through the Keyhole
by Stephen King (Scribner, ISBN: 9781451658903);
Last week: 4;
Weeks on List: 3
"King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of his Dark Tower fantasy saga."
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13. The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307957122);
Last week: 6;
Weeks on List: 30
"In this new novel by the author of Pulse, a middle-aged man contends with a past he has never much thought about."
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14. The Shoemaker's Wife
by Adriana Trigiani (Harper, ISBN: 9780061257094);
Last week: 10;
Weeks on List: 6
"A historical novel of love, family, risk, and destiny by the bestselling author of Lucia, Lucia."
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15. A Dance With Dragons
by George R. R. Martin (Bantam, ISBN: 9780553801477);
Last week: 12;
Weeks on List: 34
"The magnificent fifth book of Martin's epic fantasy, A Song of Ice and Fire."
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