June 15, 2016



Bestseller List for June 15, 2016
Based on sales for the week ending June 12, 2016
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  Trade Paperback Fiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Me Before You
Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16.00, 9780143109464
A memorable love story about two people who couldn't have less in common. Now a major motion picture.
1/71
2. The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16.00, 9780802124944
Nguyen's blistering novel of identity, politics, and America is a 2016 Indies Choice Adult Fiction Honor Book and winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
2/8
3. A Spool of Blue Thread
Anne Tyler, Ballantine, $16.00, 9780553394399
Tyler's poignant yet unsentimental novel in praise of family in all its emotional complexity.
4/7
4. A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16.00, 9781476738024
In Backman's charming novel, a grumpy yet lovable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door.
5/40
5. The Girl in the Spider's Web
David Lagercrantz, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $16.95, 9781101872000
Acclaimed Swedish journalist and author Lagercrantz continues Stieg Larsson's Millennium series as Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return in this adrenaline-charged thriller.
3/3
6. Circling the Sun
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $16.00, 9780345534200
An engrossing novel by the bestselling author of The Paris Wife.
8/2
7. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17.00, 9781609450786
A rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends by one of Italy's most acclaimed authors.
6/54
8. The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George, Broadway, $16.00, 9780553418798
George's novel is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people's lives.
7/12
9. In the Unlikely Event
Judy Blume, Vintage, $15.95, 9781101873984
Blume's richly textured and moving story of three generations of families, friends, and strangers whose lives are profoundly changed by unexpected events.
9/6
10. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16.00, 9781501115073
This warmhearted novel by the bestselling author of A Man Called Ove is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.
11/9
11. Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062409867
Lee's landmark novel, which is set two decades after To Kill a Mockingbird, is actually the first draft of the story she reworked to create her Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece.
10/6
12. The Rocks
Peter Nichols, Riverhead, $16.00, 9781101983393
A romantic page-turner propelled by the 60-year secret that has shaped two families, four lovers, and one seaside resort community.
14/2
13. The Cartel- Debut
Don Winslow, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $16.95, 9781101873748
Winslow's searing, unfiltered epic novel of the drug war in the 21st century.
/1
14. Brooklyn
Colm Toibin, Scribner, $15.00, 9781501106477
The bestselling coming-of-age novel set in Ireland and Brooklyn in the 1950s is now a major motion picture.
/29
15. Avenue of Mysteries- Debut
John Irving, S&S, $17.00, 9781451664171
Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.
/1


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