April 22, 2020



Bestseller List for April 22, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending April 19, 2020
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143135166
A riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of a picture-perfect family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Now a Hulu original series.
1/50
2. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
National Book Award-winner Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world.
2/55
3. Normal People
Sally Rooney, Hogarth, $17.00, 9781984822185
Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.
3/9
4. City of Girls
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $17.00, 9781594634741
Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.
9/2
5. Circe- Debut
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
Miller's masterful follow-up to The Song of Achilles is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world.
/1
6. Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips, Vintage, $16.95, 9780525436225
This powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.
4/2
7. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143110439
Towles' transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.
5/56
8. Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, Picador, $18.00, 9780312429980
Book one of Mantel's Thomas Cromwell trilogy is the winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize.
14/52
9. Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, Vintage, $16.95, 9780804172448
St. John Mandel's audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse.
6/40
10. Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $17.00, 9781524798642
A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup.
8/11
11. The Plague
Albert Camus, Vintage, $15.00, 9780679720218
A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of 20th-century literature.
10/3
12. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris, Harper, $16.99, 9780062797155
A testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions. A September 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.
13/85
13. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman, Penguin, $16.00, 9780735220690
Honeyman's novel is a smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and wit make for an irresistible journey.
15/73
14. Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo, Grove Press/Black Cat, $17.00, 9780802156983
Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel of black British history. Co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize.
/15
15. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek- Debut
Kim Michele Richardson, Sourcebooks Landmark, $15.99, 9781492671527
Richardson's novel is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere--even back home.
/1


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