Bestselling books (2-21-16)

Rowan bestsellers

Literary Bookpost

1. The Secret to Hummingbird Cake, by Celeste Fletcher McHale.

2. The Wettest & Wickedest Town, by Karen C. Lilly-Bower.

3. My Name is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout.

4. A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley.

5. Salisbury, by Larry Neal.

6. When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi.

7. Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff.

8. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo.

9. The Road to Little Dribbling, by Bill Bryson.

10. The King of Lies, by John Hart.

Indiebound bestsellers

Fiction

1. All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr.

2. My Name is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout.

3. The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins.

4. The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah.

5. The Swans of Fifth Avenue, by Melanie Benjamin.

6. Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff.

7. The High Mountain of Portugal, by Yann Martel.

8. Morning Star, by Pierce Brown.

9. Rogue Lawyer, by John Grisham.

10. All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders.

Nonfiction

1. When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi.

2. Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

3. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo.

4. The Road to Little Dribbling, by Bill Bryson.

5. Spark Joy, by Marie Kondo.

6. Dark Money, by Jane Mayer.

7. In Other Words, by Jhumpa Lahiri.

8. Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande.

9. Gratitude, by Oliver Sachs.

10. Originals, by Adam Grant.

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