April 6, 2022



Bestseller List for April 6, 2022
Based on sales for the week ending April 3, 2022
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17.00, 9781501161933
Reid's novel is a mesmerizing journey through the splendor of old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day.
3/44
2. It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781501110368
In Hoover's honest, evocative, and tender novel, a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance can't stop thinking about her first love.
4/19
3. Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro, Vintage, $16.95, 9780593311295
Ishiguro's novel offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: What does it mean to love?
1/5
4. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $18.00, 9780735219106
Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder.
2/49
5. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
The 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.
6/103
6. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624
Miller's monumental debut novel is an action-packed adventure and epic love story that brilliantly re-imagines Homer's enduring masterwork, The Iliad.
5/83
7. Verity
Colleen Hoover, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538724736
A sensational psychological thriller by the bestselling author of It Ends with Us.
7/8
8. The Lost Apothecary
Sarah Penner, Park Row, $17.99, 9780778311973
Penner's debut novel is a subversive and intoxicating story of secrets, vengeance, and the remarkable ways women can save each other despite the barrier of time.
10/6
9. The Paris Library
Janet Skeslien Charles, Atria, $17.99, 9781982134204
Based on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, this is an unforgettable novel of romance, friendship, family, and the power of literature.
9/5
10. People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16.00, 9781984806758
Henry's sparkling new novel will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. A May 2021 Indie Next Pick.
8/43
11. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318
Klune's novel is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place.
11/64
12. The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $16.00, 9780593336823
When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. A September 2021 Indie Next Pick.
13/12
13. The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $18.00, 9780525536963
Bennett's beautiful novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one Black and one white.
12/9
14. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $17.00, 9781984880987
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club.
14/33
15. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $17.00, 9781501160844
An ingeniously constructed novel about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope—the things that save us, even in the most anxious times.
/38
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19. Whereabouts
Jhumpa Lahiri, Vintage, $16.00, 9780593312087
A marvelous novel about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties.
 


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