This week’s top five on the Indie Bestseller List are 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, The Litigators by John Grisham, The Marriage Plot  by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes and The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje.

Published Thursday, November 3, 2011 (for the sales week ended Sunday, October 30, 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 Thursday's Bookselling This Week email.
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Debuts for the week:
Hardcover Fiction
#1-1Q84, by Haruki Murakami (9780307593313)
#2-The Litigators, by John Grisham (9780385535137)
Hardcover Nonfiction
#1-Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson (9781451648539)
#9-Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman (9780374275631)
Paperback Nonfiction
#15-How to Live, by Sarah Bakewell (9781590514832)
Children’s Interest
#4-The Chronicles of Harris Burdick, by Chris Van Allsburg, et al. (9780547548104)
Children’s Fiction Series
New: Destined (House of Night), by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast (9780312650254)
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. 1Q84- Debut
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30.5, 9780307593313
2. The Litigators- Debut
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535137
3. The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides, FSG, $28, 9780374203054
4. The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes, Knopf, $23.95, 9780307957122
5. The Cat's Table
Michael Ondaatje, Knopf, $26, 9780307700117
6. The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385534635
7. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309
8. The Best of Me
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $25.99, 9780446547659
9. State of Wonder
Ann Patchett, Harper, $26.99, 9780062049803
10. The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316126694
11. Damned
Chuck Palahniuk, Doubleday, $24.95, 9780385533027
12. The Affair
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780385344326
13. The Dovekeepers
Alice Hoffman, Scribner, $27.99, 9781451617474
14. Zone One
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $25.95, 9780385528078
15. A Dance With Dragons
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $35, 9780553801477
ON THE RISE:
18. The Stranger's Child
Alan Hollinghurst, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307272768
A masterful century-spanning saga about a love triangle by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of  The Line of Beauty.
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Steve Jobs- Debut
Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781451648539
2. Boomerang
Michael Lewis, Norton, $25.95, 9780393081817
3. Killing Lincoln
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805093070
4. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168
5. In the Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson, Crown, $26, 9780307408846
6. Rin Tin Tin
Susan Orlean, S&S, $26.99, 9781439190135
7. Go the F**k to Sleep
Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (Illus.), Akashic, $14.95, 9781617750250
8. That Used to Be Us
Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum, FSG, $28, 9780374288907
9. Thinking, Fast and Slow- Debut
Daniel Kahneman, FSG, $30, 9780374275631
10. The Swerve
Stephen Greenblatt, Norton, $26.95, 9780393064476
11. Seriously... I'm Kidding
Ellen DeGeneres, Grand Central, $26.99, 9780446585026
12. Van Gogh
Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith, Random House, $40, 9780375507489
13. Bossypants
Tina Fey, Reagan Arthur Books, $26.99, 9780316056861
14. The Greater Journey
David McCullough, S&S, $37.50, 9781416571766
15. Jacqueline Kennedy
Caroline Kennedy, Michael Beschloss, Hyperion, $60, 9781401324254
ON THE RISE:
16. Why Read Moby-Dick?
Nathaniel Philbrick, Viking, $25, 9780670022991
Philbrick examines the real-life incident that inspired Melville to write Moby-Dick, and offers a tour of the spellbinding classic novel.
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Berkley, $16, 9780425245132
2. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
3. A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307477477
4. Freedom
Jonathan Franzen, Picador, $16, 9780312576462
5. Sarah's Key
Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $13.99, 9781250004345
6. Room
Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $14.99, 9780316098328
7. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus.), Back Bay, $13.99, 9780316038409
8. The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein, Harper, $14.99, 9780061537967
9. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223
10. Sing You Home
Jodi Picoult, Atria, $16, 9781439102732
11. Started Early, Took My Dog
Kate Atkinson, Reagan Arthur Books, $14.99, 9780316066747
12. A Secret Kept
Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin, $14.99, 9780312553494
13. The Best American Short Stories
Geraldine Brooks, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780547242163
14. The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman, Dial, $15, 9780385343671
15. The Postmistress
Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, Broadway, $16, 9781400052189
2. Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316001946
3. Unlikely Friendships
Jennifer S. Holland, Workman, $13.95, 9780761159131
4. At Home
Bill Bryson, Anchor, $15.95, 9780767919395
5. Heaven Is for Real
Todd Burpo, Thomas Nelson, $16.99, 9780849946158
6. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $16, 9780060936228
7. Empire of the Summer Moon
S.C. Gwynne, Scribner, $16, 9781416591061
8. The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $16.95, 9780679763888
9. Moneyball
Michael Lewis, Norton, $15.95, 9780393338393
10. F in Exams
Richard Benson, Chronicle, $9.95, 9780811878319
11. The Hare With Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal, Picador, $16, 9780312569372
12. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2012
Old Farmer's Almanac, $6.95, 9781571985446
13. Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316017930
14. Born to Run
Christopher McDougall, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307279187
15. How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer- Debut
Sarah Bakewell, Other Press, $16.95, 9781590514832
 
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. A Storm of Swords
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553573428
4. A Feast for Crows
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553582024
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Warner, $7.99, 9780446310789
6. The Confession
John Grisham, Dell, $9.99, 9780440245117
7. The Reversal
Michael Connelly, Vision, $9.99, 9780446556750
8. Cross Fire
James Patterson, Vision, $9.99, 9780446574716
9. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $8.99, 9780756404741
10. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $7.99, 9780307473479
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Every Thing On It
Shel Silverstein, Harper, $19.99, 9780061998164
2. Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick, Scholastic, $29.99, 9780545027892
3. Wildwood
Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Balzer & Bray/Harper, $17.99, 9780062024688
4. The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales- Debut
Chris Van Allsburg, et al., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24.99, 9780547548104
5. The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illus.), Harper, $7.99, 9780060530945
6. Matched
Ally Condie, Speak, $9.99, 9780142419779
7. The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $15, 9780375864353
8. The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illus.), Yearling, $6.99, 9780394820378
9. The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810989955
10. LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia
Hannah Dolan, DK Publishing, $18.99, 9780756686970
11. Darth Paper Strikes Back
Tom Angleberger, Amulet, $12.95, 9781419700279
12. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $17.99, 9781594744761
13. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $12.99, 9780375842207
14. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick, Scholastic, $24.99, 9780439813785
15. Happy Pig Day!
Mo Willems, Hyperion, $8.99, 9781423143420
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
2. If You Give a Dog a Donut
Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illus.), Balzer & Bray/Harper, $16.99, 9780060266837
3. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Puffin, $6.99, 9780142501122
4. I Want My Hat Back
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $15.99, 9780763655983
5. The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse
Eric Carle, Philomel, $17.99, 9780399257131
6. The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
Linda Williams, Megan Lloyd (Illus.), Harper, $6.99, 9780064431835
7. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $17.95, 9780060254926
8. The Wizard of Oz: A Scanimation Book
Rufus Butler Seder (Illus.), Workman, $14.95, 9780761163732
9. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
10. Pinkalicious and the Pink Pumpkin
Victoria Kann, HarperFestival, $6.99, 9780061989612
11. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden, $9.99, 9780307120007
12. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $7.99, 9780399230035
13. Clifford's Halloween
Norman Bridwell, Cartwheel, $3.99, 9780545215954
14. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Eric Carle (Illus.), Holt, $7.95, 9780805047905
15. A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Philip Christian Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illus.), Roaring Brook, $16.99, 9781596434028
 
CHILDREN'S FICTION SERIES
1. The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic
2. The Heroes of Olympus (hardcover)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion
3. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
4. Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback)
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books
5. The Secret Series (hardcover and paperback)
Pseudonymous Bosch, Little Brown
6. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Miramax
7. The Maze Runner (hardcover and paperback)
James Dashner, Delacorte
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet
9. Ivy & Bean (hardcover and paperback)
Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.), Chronicle
10. House of Night (hardcover and paperback)
P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast, St. Martin's
New in Series: Destined (9780312650254)