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Bestelling books the week of 8/19/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

By IndieBound* / August 18, 2010

Joanne Ciccarello – staff

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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson, Knopf
2. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
3. Star Island, by Carl Hiaasen, Knopf
4. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell, Random House
5. Super Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart, Random House
6. The Rembrandt Affair, by Daniel Silva, Putnam
7. The Red Queen, by Philippa Gregory, Touchstone
8. The Passage, by Justin Cronin, Ballantine
9. Faithful Place, by Tana French, Viking
10. The Cookbook Collector, by Allegra Goodman, Dial
11. The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise, by Julia Stuart, Doubleday
12. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender, Doubleday
13. Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes, Atlantic Monthly
14. I Curse the River of Time, by Per Petterson, Graywolf
15. Fly Away Home, by Jennifer Weiner, Atria

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HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Women Food and God, by Geneen Roth, Scribner
2. Sh*t My Dad Says, by Justin Halpern, It Books
3. Medium Raw, by Anthony Bourdain, Ecco
4. Packing for Mars, by Mary Roach, Norton
5. The Big Short, by Michael Lewis, Norton
6. Empire of the Summer Moon, by S.C. Gwynne, Scribner
7. Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall, Knopf
8. War, by Sebastian Junger, Twelve
9. Four Fish, by Paul Greenberg, Penguin Press
10. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown
11. Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship, by Gail Caldwell, Random House
12. Committed, by Elizabeth Gilbert, Viking
13. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, Crown
14. Washington Rules, by Andrew Bacevich, Metropolitan
15. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M., by Sam Wasson, Harper

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