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Bestselling books the week of 9/2/10, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Joe Mabel
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. Three Stations, by Martin Cruz Smith, S&S
5. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell, Random House
6. Super Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart, Random House
7. The Cookbook Collector, by Allegra Goodman, Dial
8. The Red Queen, by Philippa Gregory, Touchstone
9. The Postcard Killers, by James Patterson, Liza Marklund, Little Brown
10. The Rembrandt Affair, by Daniel Silva, Putnam
11. The Passage, by Justin Cronin, Ballantine
12. I Curse the River of Time, by Per Petterson, Graywolf
13. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender, Doubleday
14. The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise, by Julia Stuart, Doubleday
15. Faithful Place, by Tana French, Viking
ON THE RISE:
17. I'd Know You Anywhere, by Laura Lippman, Morrow
Lippman's riveting new novel of suspense is a September Indie Next List Great Read.
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Sh*t My Dad Says, by Justin Halpern, It Books
2. Let's Take the Long Way Home, by Gail Caldwell, Random House
3. The Power, by Rhonda Byrne, Atria
4. Women Food and God, by Geneen Roth, Scribner
5. Packing for Mars, by Mary Roach, Norton
6. Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall, Knopf
7. Medium Raw, by Anthony Bourdain, Ecco
8. Empire of the Summer Moon, by S.C. Gwynne, Scribner
9. Four Fish, by Paul Greenberg, Penguin Press
10. The Big Short, by Michael Lewis, Norton
11. Committed, by Elizabeth Gilbert, Viking
12. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M., by Sam Wasson, Harper
13. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown
14. The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, by Eliza Griswold, FSG
15. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, Crown
ON THE RISE:
17. The Murder Room, by Michael Capuzzo, Gotham
A team of the world's finest forensic investigators look at famous cold cases.









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