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"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."

—Elie(zer) Wiesel (b. 1928) Romanian-born writer, lecturer, survivor Nazi camps, Nobel

 

Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers (Book Sense)



Freedom 
   
    by Jonathan Franzen (FSG, ISBN: 9780374158460); Weeks on List: 1 "The new novel by the National Book Award winning author of The Corrections is a September Indie Next List Great Read."


The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest 
   
    by Stieg Larsson (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307269997); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 15 "The stunning third and final novel in Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy."


The Help 
   
    by Kathryn Stockett (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, ISBN: 9780399155345); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: * "This wonderful debut set in the rural South of the 1960s is a February 2009 Indie Next List Great Read."


Star Island 
   
    by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307272584); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 6 "Hiaasen's hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane."


Three Stations 
   
    by Martin Cruz Smith (S&S, ISBN: 9780743276740); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 3 "The seventh Arkady Renko novel by the bestselling author of Stalin's Ghost."


The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet 
   
    by David Mitchell (Random House, ISBN: 9781400065455); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 10 "The riveting new novel by the author of Cloud Atlas is a July Indie Next List Great Read."


Super Sad True Love Story 
   
    by Gary Shteyngart (Random House, ISBN: 9781400066407); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 6 "The new satiric novel by the author of Absurdistan is an August Indie Next List Great Read."


The Red Queen 
   
    by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, ISBN: 9781416563723); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: 5 "The new Cousins' War novel by the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl."


The Cookbook Collector 
   
    by Allegra Goodman (Dial, ISBN: 9780385340854); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 8 "The wonderful new novel by the author of Intuition is a July Indie Next List Great Read."


The Postcard Killers 
   
    by James Patterson, Liza Marklund (Little Brown, ISBN: 9780316089517); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: 3 "NYPD detective Jacob Kanon investigates the murders of couples vacationing in Europe."


The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise 
   
    by Julia Stuart (Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385533287); Last week: 14; Weeks on List: 4 "Stuart's charming second novel is an August Indie Next List Great Read."


The Way of Kings 
   
    by Brandon Sanderson (Tor, ISBN: 9780765326355); Weeks on List: 1 "Part one of a new epic fantasy series by the author of the Mistborn trilogy."


Body Work 
   
    by Sara Paretsky (Putnam, ISBN: 9780399156748); Weeks on List: 1 "The new V.I.Warshawski novel from the bestselling author of Hardball."


The Rembrandt Affair 
   
    by Daniel Silva (Putnam, ISBN: 9780399156588); Last week: 10; Weeks on List: 7 "Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in Silva's latest thriller."


I Curse the River of Time 
   
    by Per Petterson (Graywolf, ISBN: 9781555975562); Last week: 12; Weeks on List: 4 "The latest novel by the author of Out Stealing Horses is an August Indie Next List Great Read."
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