This week's top five on the Indie Bestseller List are 11/22/63 by Stephen King, Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James, The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes and 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami.

Published Thursday, December 22, 2011 (for the sales week ended Sunday, December 18, 2011).

Based on reporting from many hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States. For information on more titles, please visit IndieBound.org



Booksellers: The Indie Bestseller List may be downloaded as a color PDF for display in your store. Go to the Indie Bestseller page under the IndieBound section on BookWeb.org, or click on the bestseller link in your Bookselling This Week email.

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Debuts for the week:

Hardcover Fiction

#13-The Leopard, by Jo Nesbø (9780307595874)

Children’s Fiction Series

New: A King's Ransom (The 39 Clues) by Jude Watson  (9780545298407)

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HARDCOVER FICTION

1. 11/22/63

Stephen King, Scribner, $35, 9781451627282

2. Death Comes to Pemberley

P.D. James, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307959850

3. The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316126694

4. The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes, Knopf, $23.95, 9780307957122

5. 1Q84

Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30.50, 9780307593313

6. The Marriage Plot

Jeffrey Eugenides, FSG, $28, 9780374203054

7. The Litigators

John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535137

8. The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385534635

9. State of Wonder

Ann Patchett, Harper, $26.99, 9780062049803

10. The Cat's Table

Michael Ondaatje, Knopf, $26, 9780307700117

11. The Paris Wife

Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309

12. The Drop

Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316069410

13. The Leopard- Debut

Jo Nesbø, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307595874

14. V Is for Vengeance

Sue Grafton, Marian Wood Books/Putnam, $27.95, 9780399157868

15. The Prague Cemetery

Umberto Eco, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 9780547577531

ON THE RISE:

19. Locked On

Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney, Putnam, $28.95, 9780399157318

The covert team known as the Campus face their greatest challenge ever in Clancy's latest thriller.

 

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781451648539

2. Unbroken

Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168

3. Killing Lincoln

Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805093070

4. Jack Kennedy

Chris Matthews, S&S, $27.50, 9781451635089

5. Catherine the Great

Robert K. Massie, Random House, $35, 9780679456728

6. Then Again

Diane Keaton, Random House, $26, 9781400068784

7. Go the F**k to Sleep

Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (Illus.), Akashic, $14.95, 9781617750250

8. Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman, FSG, $30, 9780374275631

9. Rin Tin Tin

Susan Orlean, S&S, $26.99, 9781439190135

10. A History of the World in 100 Objects

Neil MacGregor, Viking, $45, 9780670022700

11. In the Garden of Beasts

Erik Larson, Crown, $26, 9780307408846

12. The Swerve

Stephen J. Greenblatt, Norton, $26.95, 9780393064476

13. Boomerang

Michael Lewis, Norton, $25.95, 9780393081817

14. Goodnight iPad

Ann Droyd, Blue Rider, $14.95, 9780399158568

15. The Time of Our Lives

Tom Brokaw, Random House, $26, 9781400064588

 

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. The Tiger's Wife

Téa Obreht, Random House, $15, 9780385343848

2. The Help

Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132

3. Swamplandia!

Karen Russell, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307276681

4. Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368

5. The Art of Racing in the Rain

Garth Stein, Harper, $14.99, 9780061537967

6. A Visit From the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477

7. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus.), Back Bay, $13.99, 9780316038409

8. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307949493

9. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223

10. Sarah's Key

Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $13.99, 9781250004345

11. Room

Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328

12. Freedom

Jonathan Franzen, Picador, $16, 9780312576462

13. The Best American Short Stories 2011

Geraldine Brooks, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780547242163

14. An Object of Beauty

Steve Martin, Grand Central, $14.99, 9780446573658

15. Sing You Home

Jodi Picoult, Atria, $16, 9781439102732

 

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 

1. Unlikely Friendships

Jennifer S. Holland, Workman, $13.95, 9780761159131

2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot, Broadway, $16, 9781400052189

3. At Home

Bill Bryson, Anchor, $15.95, 9780767919395

4. Heaven Is for Real

Todd Burpo, Thomas Nelson, $16.99, 9780849946158

5. Cleopatra

Stacy Schiff, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316001946

6. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2012

Old Farmer's Almanac, $6.95, 9781571985446

7. Awkward Family Pet Photos

Mike Bender, Doug Chernack, Three Rivers, $15, 9780307888129

8. Born to Run

Christopher McDougall, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307279187

9. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2012

Sarah Janssen (Ed.), World Almanac, $12.99, 9781600571480

10. Empire of the Summer Moon

S.C. Gwynne, Scribner, $16, 9781416591061

11. F in Exams

Richard Benson, Chronicle, $9.95, 9780811878319

12. Holidays on Ice

David Sedaris, Back Bay, $10, 9780316078917

13. Just Kids

Patti Smith, Ecco, $16, 9780060936228

14. The Hare With Amber Eyes

Edmund de Waal, Picador, $16, 9780312569372

15. I Remember Nothing

Nora Ephron, Vintage, $14, 9780307742803

 

MASS MARKET

1. A Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553593716

2. A Clash of Kings

George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553579901

3. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307949486

4. A Feast for Crows

George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553582024

5. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition

Merriam-Webster, $7.50, 9780877799290

6. A Storm of Swords

George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553573428

7. Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card, Tor, $6.99, 9780812550702

8. The Girl Who Played With Fire

Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307949509

9. The Land of Painted Caves

Jean M. Auel, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553289435

10. Smokin' Seventeen

Janet Evanovich, Bantam, $8.99, 9780345527707

 

CHILDREN'S INTEREST

1. Wonderstruck

Brian Selznick, Scholastic, $29.99, 9780545027892

2. Every Thing On It

Shel Silverstein, Harper, $19.99, 9780061998164

3. The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick, Scholastic, $24.99, 9780439813785

4. War Horse

Michael Morpurgo, Scholastic, $8.99, 9780545403351

5. The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales

Chris Van Allsburg, et al., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24.99, 9780547548104

6. Wildwood

Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Balzer & Bray/Harper, $17.99, 9780062024688

7. The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illus.), Yearling, $6.99, 9780394820378

8. The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories

Dr.Seuss, Random House, $15, 9780375864353

9. LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia

Hannah Dolan, DK Publishing, $18.99, 9780756686970

10. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $17.99, 9781594744761

11. The Book Thief

Markus Zusak, Knopf, $12.99, 9780375842207

12. The Apothecary

Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr (Illus.), Putnam, $16.99, 9780399256271

13. The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book

Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810989955

14. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda

Tom Angleberger, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810984257

15. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Barbara Robinson, HarperTrophy, $5.99, 9780064402750

 

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

1. I Want My Hat Back

Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $15.99, 9780763655983

2. Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617

3. The Polar Express

Chris Van Allsburg, Houghton Mifflin, $18.95, 9780395389492

4. Home for Christmas

Jan Brett, Putnam, $17.99, 9780399256530

5. How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Dr. Seuss, Random House, $15, 9780394800790

6. The Night Before Christmas

Jan Brett, Putnam, $20, 9780399256707

7. Bad Kitty Christmas

Nick Bruel, Roaring Brook, $15.99, 9781596436688

8. Stuck

Oliver Jeffers, Philomel, $16.99, 9780399257377

9. If You Give a Dog a Donut

Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illus.), Balzer & Bray/Harper, $16.99, 9780060266837

10. Press Here

Herve Tullet, Chronicle, $14.99, 9780811879545

11. The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse

Eric Carle, Philomel, $17.99, 9780399257131

12. Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site

Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld (Illus.), Chronicle, $16.99, 9780811877824

13. The Wizard of Oz: A Scanimation Book

Rufus Butler Seder (Illus.), Workman, $14.95, 9780761163732

14. Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak, Harper, $17.95, 9780060254926

15. The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908

 

CHILDREN'S FICTION SERIES

1. The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)

Suzanne Collins, Scholastic

2. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback)

Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House

3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)

Jeff Kinney, Amulet

4. Inheritance Cycle (hardcover and paperback)

Christopher Paolini, Knopf

5. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (hardcover and paperback)

Rick Riordan, Miramax

6. Ivy & Bean (hardcover and paperback)

Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.), Chronicle

7. Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback)

J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books

8. The Heroes of Olympus (hardcover and paperback)

Rick Riordan, Hyperion

9. The Secret Series (hardcover and paperback)

Pseudonymous Bosch, Little Brown

10. The 39 Clues (hardcover)

Jude Watson, et al., Scholastic

New in Series: A King's Ransom (9780545298407)