September 9, 2020



Bestseller List for September 9, 2020
Based on sales for the week ending September 6, 2020
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $15.95, 9780345804341
Whitehead's masterful and haunting novel about two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida is the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1/10
2. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
Miller's 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.
2/21
3. 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.
3/75
4. 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.
4/29
5. 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.
6/70
6. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk, Riverhead Books, $17.00, 9780525541349
Tokarczuk's Nobel Prize-winning novel is deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, and a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate.
9/4
7. The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern, Anchor, $16.95, 9781101971383
A timeless love story set in a secret underground world--a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.
5/5
8. The Testaments- Debut
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $16.95, 9780525562627
Atwood's masterful sequel to her modern classic, The Handmaid's Tale.
/1
9. 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.
7/14
10. 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.
13/29
11. 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.
10/32
12. 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.
15/3
13. The Institute- Debut
Stephen King, Gallery Books, $19.99, 9781982110581
King's gut-wrenching novel of good versus evil in a world where the good guys don't always win.
/1
14. 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.
12/105
15. When No One Is Watching- Debut
Alyssa Cole, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062982650
Cole's novel is a gripping thriller in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning. A September 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
/1


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