NPR Bestsellers: Week Of December 25, 2014
The lists are compiled from weekly surveys of close to 500 independent bookstores nationwide.
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NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Fiction, Week Of December 25, 2014
Mary Oliver's Blue Horses, a book of poetry about the unaffected beauty of nature, appears at No. 11.
NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Nonfiction, Week Of December 25, 2014
Monty Python comic John Cleese's memoir, So, Anyway ..., debuts at No. 15.
NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Fiction, Week Of December 25, 2014
Inherent Vice, a psychedelic noir by Thomas Pynchon, appears at No. 14.
NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Nonfiction, Week Of December 25, 2014
Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat, about an American rowing team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, appears at No. 3.
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