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A look at Random House, Inc.'s bestselling fiction paperbacks across the country.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM:
USA Today list dating from February 2, 2012
Barnes & Noble list dating from February 8, 2012
Book Sense list dating from February 9, 2012
New York Times list dating from February 12, 2012
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Written by Stieg Larsson
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $15.95
Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the...
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Fallen
A Novel
Written by Karin Slaughter
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: January 31, 2012
Price: $7.99
There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Everything Faith learned in the academy goes out the window when she charges into her mother’s house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Written by Stieg Larsson
Format: Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $9.99
Stieg Larsson's #1 bestselling mystery featuring Lisbeth Salander is now a major motion picture directed by David Fincher, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, from Columbia Pictures/Sony. In theaters December 2011. The first volume in the Millennium Trilogy, and an international publishing sensation, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder...
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The Tiger's Wife
A Novel
Written by Tea Obreht
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $15.00
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Economist • Vogue • Slate • Chicago Tribune • The Seattle Times • Dayton Daily News • Publishers Weekly • Alan Cheuse, NPR’s...
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Smokin' Seventeen
A Stephanie Plum Novel
Written by Janet Evanovich
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $8.99
Where there’s smoke there’s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed...
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
Written by Stieg Larsson
Format: Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $9.99
Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the...
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The Jefferson Key
A Novel
Written by Steve Berry
Format: Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2011
Price: $9.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Four presidents of the United States have been assassinated—in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963—each murder seemingly unrelated. But what if those presidents were all killed for the shocking same reason: a clause contained in the United States Constitution? This is the question faced by former Justice Department operative...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Written by Stieg Larsson
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $15.95
Stieg Larsson's #1 bestselling mystery featuring Lisbeth Salander is now a major motion picture directed by David Fincher, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, from Columbia Pictures/Sony. In theaters December 2011. The first volume in the Millennium Trilogy, and an international publishing sensation, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Written by Stieg Larsson
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $15.95
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged...
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The Woman in Black (Movie Tie-in Edition)
A Ghost Story
Written by Susan Hill
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $14.00
A classic ghost story: the chilling tale of a menacing specter haunting a small English town. Arthur Kipps is an up-and-coming London solicitor who is sent to Crythin Gifford--a faraway town in the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway--to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of a client, Mrs...
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Cutting for Stone
Written by Abraham Verghese
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2010
Price: $15.95
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers...
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A Clash of Kings
A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two
Written by George R.R. Martin
Format: Paperback, 1040 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $8.99
GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.
In this eagerly awaited sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any...
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A Storm of Swords
A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three
Written by George R.R. Martin
Format: Paperback, 1216 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2003
Price: $8.99
GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.
Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the...
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A Feast for Crows
A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four
Written by George R.R. Martin
Format: Paperback, 1104 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $8.99
GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of...
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The Confession
A Novel
Written by John Grisham
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $9.99
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER First time in paperback
An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be...
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A Game of Thrones
A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One
Written by George R.R. Martin
Format: Paperback, 864 pages
On Sale: August 4, 1997
Price: $8.99
A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.
Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to...
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Minding Frankie
Written by Maeve Binchy
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2011
Price: $7.99
When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he reluctantly agrees to take care of the baby girl. Along with the help of a caring network of friends, family and neighbors—including Lisa, his broken-hearted classmate, and Emily, his American cousin—Noel adapts to his new responsibilities...
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Written by Jamie Ford
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
"Sentimental, heartfelt….the exploration of Henry’s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we don’t repeat those injustices." -- Kirkus Reviews
“A tender...
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A Clash of Kings
A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two
Written by George R.R. Martin
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2002
Price: $17.00
GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.Here is the second volume in George R.R. Martin magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre...
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A Game of Thrones
A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One
Written by George R.R. Martin
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $17.00
A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.
Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to...
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A Game of Thrones
A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One
Written by George R.R. Martin
Format: Paperback, 864 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $8.99
A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.
Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to...
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
Written by Jennifer Egan
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $14.95
NATIONAL BESTSELLER National Book Critics Circle Award Winner PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist A New York Times Book Review Best Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point, O, the Oprah Magazine, People, Publishers Weekly, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle...
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
A Novel
Written by Helen Simonson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2010
Price: $15.00
In the small village of Edgecombe St. Mary in the English countryside lives Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson’s wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, the Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum...
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Swamplandia!
Written by Karen Russell
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Price: $14.95
A New York Times Best Book of the Year One of Granta's Best Young American Novelists Selected for the New Yorker's 20 Under 40 Nominated for the Orange Prize Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness...
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Shanghai Girls
A Novel
Written by Lisa See
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
In 1937 Shanghai—the Paris of Asia—twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree—until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to...
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A Game of Thrones
A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One
Written by George R.R. Martin
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2002
Price: $17.00
A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to...
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The Woman in Black
A Ghost Story
Written by Susan Hill
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $14.00
"An excellent ghost story... magnificently eerie... compulsive reading." — Evening Standard The classic ghost story by Susan Hill: a chilling tale about a menacing spectre haunting a small English town. Arthur Kipps is an up-and-coming London solicitor who is sent to Crythin Gifford—a faraway town in the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives...
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The Descendants
A Novel
Written by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $15.00
Narrated in a bold, fearless, unforgettable voice and set against the lush, panoramic backdrop of Hawaii, The Descendants is a stunning debut novel about an unconventional family forced to come together and re-create its own legacy. Matthew King was once considered one of the most fortunate men in Hawaii. His missionary...
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