February 3, 2021



Bestseller List for February 3, 2021
Based on sales for the week ending January 31, 2021
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Dutch House
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $17.00, 9780062963680
Patchett's moving novel explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go.
1/4
2. Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $17.00, 9780802148506
A heartbreaking story of addiction, sexuality, and love, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family that is rarely seen in fiction. A 2020 National Book Award Finalist and winner of the 2020 Booker Prize.
2/14
3. Circe
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.
3/42
4. Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu, Vintage, $16.00, 9780307948472
Yu's deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. Winner of the 2020 National Book Award.
4/11
5. 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.
7/22
6. 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.
6/96
7. Home Body
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781449486808
Kaur's greatly anticipated third collection of poetry.
5/11
8. Bridgerton: The Duke and I- Debut
Julia Quinn, Avon, $16.99, 9780063078901
From Julia Quinn comes the first novel in the beloved Regency-set world of her charming, powerful Bridgerton family. Now a Netfilx series.
/1
9. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20.00, 9780399563263
A personal selection of Oliver's best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.
12/12
10. The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $18.00, 9780399590610
Coates' debut novel is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.
8/11
11. The Only Good Indians- Debut
Stephen Graham Jones, Gallery/Saga Press, $16.99, 9781982136468
Stephen Graham Jones presents a terrifying and beautiful novel of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition.
/1
12. News of the World
Paulette Jiles, Morrow, $16.99, 9780063011953
A brilliant work of historical fiction that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. Now a major motion picture.
13/3
13. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101971062
Gyasi's extraordinary novel illuminates slavery's troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed--and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.
/47
14. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538732182
A post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror by the bestselling author of Kindred.
9/14
15. This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $17.00, 9781476749303
A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression.
14/34


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