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Paperback fiction bestsellers, week of 9/30
1. The Emperor’s Children
By Claire Messud. Vintage.
2. Water for Elephants
By Sara Gruen. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
3. Suite Francaise
By Irene Nemirovsky. Vintage.
4. One Good Turn
By Kate Atkinson. Back Bay.
5. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
By Kim Edwards. Penguin.
6. The Kite Runner
By Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead.
7. The Road
By Cormac McCarthy. Vintage.
8. The Echo Maker
By Richard Powers. Picador.
9. Middlesex
By Jeffrey Eugenides. Picador.
10. Digging to America
By Anne Tyler. Random House.
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