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The extensive participation of Southern Independent stores reporting to the Indie List ensures that it is an accurate reflection of what titles independent booksellers are recommending – and what books their customers are buying. 

Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound.org.

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Southern Indie Bestseller List 05/12/2013

HARDCOVER FICTION


1. A Delicate Truth
John le Carre, Viking, $28.95, 9780670014897
2. Dead Ever After
Charlaine Harris, Ace, $27.95, 9781937007881
3. The Hit
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $27.99, 9781455521210
okra4. Life After Life
Jill McCorkle, Shannon Ravenel Books, $24.95, 9781565122550

okra5. Z
Therese Anne Fowler, St. Martin's, $25.99, 9781250028655

6. The Burgess Boys
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $26, 9781400067688
7. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25, 9780307588364
8. Paris
Edward Rutherfurd, Doubleday, $32.5, 9780385535304
9. Best Kept Secret
Jeffrey Archer, St. Martin's, $27.99, 9781250000989
10. Life After Life
Kate Atkinson, Reagan Arthur Books, $27.99, 9780316176484
11. The Woman Upstairs
Claire Messud, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307596901
12. Maya's Notebook
Isabel Allende, Harper, $27.99, 9780062105622
13. The Aviator's Wife
Melanie Benjamin, Delacorte, $26, 9780345528674
14. Me Before You
Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman/Viking, $27.95, 9780670026609
15. Flora
Gail Godwin, Bloomsbury, $26, 9781620401200

HARDCOVER NONFICTION


1. Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
David Sedaris, Little Brown, $27, 9780316154697
2. Cooked
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594204210
3. Mom & Me & Mom
Maya Angelou, Random House, $22, 9781400066117
4. I Could Pee on This
Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle, $12.95, 9781452110585
5. Lean In
Sheryl Sandberg, Knopf, $24.95, 9780385349949
6. It's All Good
Gwyneth Paltrow, Grand Central, $32, 9781455522712
7. Bunker Hill
Nathaniel Philbrick, Viking, $32.95, 9780670025442
8. Gulp
Mary Roach, Norton, $26.95, 9780393081572
9. Waiting to Be Heard
Amanda Knox, Harper, $28.99, 9780062217202
10. But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria!
Julia Reed, St. Martin's, $25.99, 9781250019042
11. Porch Dogs
Neil Dickerson, John F. Blair Publisher, $29.95, 9780895875976
12. The Drunken Botanist
Amy Stewart, Algonquin, $19.95, 9781616200466
13. Help, Thanks, Wow
Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $17.95, 9781594631290
14. The Girls of Atomic City
Denise Kiernan, Touchstone, $27, 9781451617528
15. Vader's Little Princess
Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, $14.95, 9781452118697

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION


1. The Great Gatsby
F.Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $15, 9781451689433
2. Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061928178
3. The Art Forger
B.A. Shapiro, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616203160
4. The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson, Random House, $15, 9780812982626
5. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $16, 9781451681758
6. Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel, Picador USA, $16, 9781250024176
7. Call Me Zelda
Erika Robuck, NAL, $16, 9780451239921
8. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316204262
9. The Orchardist
Amanda Coplin, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062188519
10. The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope
Rhonda Riley, Ecco Press, $15.99, 9780062099440
11. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $15, 9780345521316
12. The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Ballantine, $15, 9780345525550
13. The Yellow Birds
Kevin Powers, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316219341
14. Broken Harbor
Tana French, Penguin, $16, 9780143123309
15. The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $14.99, 9780061122415

 

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION


1. Proof of Heaven
Eben Alexander, M.D., S&S, $15.99, 9781451695199
2. Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307476074
3. Quiet
Susan Cain, Broadway, $16, 9780307352156
4. Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, FSG, $16, 9780374533557
5. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Anna Quindlen, Random House, $15, 9780812981667
6. What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-One Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most
Elizabeth Benedict (Ed.), Algonquin, $15.95, 9781616201357
7. This Is How
Augusten Burroughs, Picador USA, $15, 9781250032102
8. Control
Glenn Beck, Threshold Editions, $12, 9781476739878
9. America the Beautiful
Ben Carson, Zondervan, $14.99, 9780310330912
10. Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Jenny Lawson, Berkley, $16, 9780425261019
11. Why Does the World Exist?
Jim Holt, Liveright, $16.95, 9780871403599
12. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
The Countess of Carnarvon, Broadway, $15.99, 9780770435622
13. Wreck This Journal
Keri Smith, Perigree, $15, 9780399161940
14. Citizens of London
Lynne Olson, Random House, $17, 9780812979350
15. F in Exams
Richard Benson, Chronicle, $9.95, 9780811878319

 

MASS MARKET


1. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
2. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $6.99, 9780812550702
3. A Clash of Kings
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780345535429
4. Defending Jacob
William Landay, Dell, $7.99, 9780440246138
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Warner, $7.99, 9780446310789
6. A Storm of Swords
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780345543981
7. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Berkley, $9.99, 9780399501487
8. Calico Joe
John Grisham, Dell, $7.99, 9780345541338
9. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
10. The Best of Me
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $8, 9780446547635

 

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED


1. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $17.99, 9780679805274
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
3. Fancy Nancy: Fanciest Doll in the Universe
Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper, $17.99, 9780061703843
4. The Dark
Lemony Snicket, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Little Brown, $16.99, 9780316187480
5. Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $7.99, 9780140564341
6. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
7. Steam Train, Dream Train
Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld (Illus.), Chronicle, $16.99, 9781452109206
8. The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein, Harper, $16.99, 9780060256654
9. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $7.99, 9780399230035
10. That Is Not a Good Idea!
Mo Willems, Balzer + Bray, $17.99, 9780062203090

 

CHILDREN'S INTEREST


1. The 5th Wave
Rick Yancey, Putnam, $18.99, 9780399162411
2. The Fault in Our Stars
John Green, Dutton, $17.99, 9780525478812
3. Poems to Learn by Heart
Caroline Kennedy, Jon J Muth (Illus.), Hyperion, $19.99, 9781423108054
4. Looking for Alaska
John Green, Speak, $9.99, 9780142402511
5. Wonder
R.J. Palacio, Knopf, $15.99, 9780375869020
6. The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $16.99, 9780061992254
7. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, HarperTrophy, $7.99, 9780064400558
8. The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton, Puffin, $9.99, 9780140385724
9. House of Secrets
Chris Columbus, Ned Vizzini, Greg Call (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $17.99, 9780062192462
10. Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson, Harper, $6.99, 9780061227288

 

CHILDREN'S FICTION SERIES TITLES


1. Stallion by Starlight (Magic Tree House, #49)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House, $12.99, 9780307980403
2. Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean, #1)
Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall, Chronicle, $5.99, 9780811849098
3. Divergent
Veronica Roth, Katherine Tegen Books, $9.99, 9780062024039
4. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99, 9781423134947
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $13.95, 9780810993136
6. Legend
Marie Lu, Speak, $9.99, 9780142422076
7. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
8. Dark Day in the Deep Sea (Magic Tree House #39)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House, $4.99, 9780375837326
9. Theodore Boone: The Accused
John Grisham, Dutton, $16.99, 9780525425762
10. Pirates Past Noon (Magic Tree House #4)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House, $4.99, 9780679824251