Recent and not so recent "indie bookstore" reads (the more +'s, the more I liked it): 
Indie BestSeller Lists
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| Anxious People ++++ |
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Fredrik Backman |
| Dear Mr. You +++ |
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Mary Louis-Parker |
| All the Pretty Horses ++++ |
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Cormac McCarthy |
| 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window +++ |
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Jonas Jonasson |
| The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring ++ |
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Richard Preston |
| Euphoria ++ |
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Lily King |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany ++++ |
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John Irving |
| The Temple of My Familiar +++ |
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Alice Walker |
| The Art of Hearing Heartbeats ++++ |
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Jan-Philipp Sendker |
| A Well-tempered Heart +++ |
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Jan-Philipp Sendker |
| Rage ++ |
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Johnathan Kellerman |
| A Cold Day For Murder + |
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Dana Stabenow |
| Night Train to Lisbon ++ (good movie, tho) |
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Pascal Mercier |
| A Gentleman in Moscow + |
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Amor Towles |
| All Cry Chaos ++++ |
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Leonard Rosen |
| The Tenth Witness ++ |
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Leonard Rosen |
| One Good Turn ++ |
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Kate Atkinson |
| Case Histories ++ |
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Kate Atkinson |
| The Maytrees +++ |
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Annie Dilliard |
| The Twins ++ |
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Gerbrand Bakker |
| Ten White Geese ++++ |
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Gerbrand Bakker |
| Flight Behavior ++ |
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Barbara Kingsolver |
| Finding Casey ++ |
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Jo-Ann Mapson |
| Guido Brunetti series (27 novels) ++++ |
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Donna Leon |
| State of Wonder +++ |
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Ann Patchett |
| The Gargoyle + |
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Andrew Davidson |
| Calico Joe +++ |
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John Grisham |
| The Geography of Bliss +++ |
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Eric Weiner |
| Bee Season + |
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Myla Goldberg |
| The Eight + |
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Katherine Neville |
| Almost Moon + |
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Alice Sebold |
| Gasa-Gasa Girl +++ |
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Naomi Hirahara |
| Summer of the Big Bachi +++ |
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Naomi Hirahara |
| Snakeskin Shamisen +++ |
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Naomi Hirahara |
| Wednesday Sisters ++ |
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Meg Waite Clayton |
| Her Fearful Symmetry ++ pp 1-295 -- rest of it |
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Audrey Niffennegger |
| Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet ++++ |
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Jamie Ford |
| Hannah's Dream ++++ |
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Diane Hammond |
| Going to Bend +++ |
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Diane Hammond |
| City of Masks +++ |
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Daniel Hecht |
| The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest ++++ |
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Stieg Larsson |
| Beautiful Creatures ++ |
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Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl |
| The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane ++++ |
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Katherine Howe |
| Loving Frank + |
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Nancy Horan |
| Mountains beyond Mountains + |
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Tracy Kidder |
| Land of Echoes: A Cree Black Novel +++ |
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Daniel Hecht |
| Half Broke Horses ++ |
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Jeannette Walls |
| Blue Angel + |
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Francine Prose |
| Goldengrove ++ |
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Francine Prose |
| Let the Great World Spin ++ |
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Colum McMann |
| Spook Country +++ |
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William Gibson |
| The Book of Love ++ |
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Kathleen McGowan |
| The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie +++ |
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Alan Bradley |
| Codex + |
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Lev Grossman |
| The Magicians |
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Lev Grossman |
| The Girl Who Played with Fire ++ |
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Stieg Larsson |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ++++ |
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Stieg Larsson |
| Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog + |
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Ted Kerasote |
| The Art of Racing in the Rain ++++ |
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Garth Stein |
| Netherland |
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Joseph O'Neill |
| Land of Echoes +++ |
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Daniel Hecht |
| The Likeness + |
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Tana French |
Little Bee
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Chris Cleave |
| Tea Time for the Traditionally Built +++ |
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Alexander McCall Smith |
| Host |
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Stephenie Meyer |
| The Reluctant Fundamentalist + |
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Mohsin Hamid |
| This Is Water ++ |
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David Foster Wallace |
| Sweetwater: A Novel |
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Roxana Robinson |
| Winter in Madrid |
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C. J. Sansom |
| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society +++ |
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Mary Ann Shafer & Annie Barrows |
| Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ++ |
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Annie Dilliard |
| Sarah's Key ++++ |
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Tatiana de Rosmay |
| The Lace Reader +++ |
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Brunonia Barry |
| The Map of True Places ++ |
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Brunonia Barry |
| The Fifth Petal ++ |
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Brunonia Barry |
| The Cellist from Sarajevo ++++ |
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Steven Galloway |
| Still Alice ++++ |
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Lisa Genova |
| The 19th Wife + |
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David Ebershoff |
| Sparrow |
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Mary Doria Russell |
| Vanishing Acts + |
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Jodi Picault |
| The Thirteenth Tale ++ |
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Diane Satterfield |
| Water for Elephants ++ |
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Sara Gruen |
| Three Cups of Tea +++ |
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Greg Mortensen & David Oliver Relin |
| Kaballah ++++ |
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Lawrence Kusher |
| The Expected One ++++ |
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Kathleen McGovern |
| #1 Ladies Detective Agency Series ++++ |
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Alexander McCall Smith |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night + |
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Mark Haddon |
| Holy Cow ++ |
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Sarah McDonnell |
| The Kite Runner ++ |
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Khaled Hosseini |
| The Namesake - |
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Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Summerland + |
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Michael Chabon |
| The Yiddish Policeman's Union + |
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Michael Chabon |
| Lovely Bones ++ |
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Alice Sebold |
| Stern Men + |
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
| Eat Pray Love + |
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
| Run + |
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Ann Patchett |
| Bel Canto ++ |
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Ann Patchett |
| The Worst Thing I've Done + |
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Ursula Hegi |
| Stolen Child + |
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Keith Donohue |
| Animal Dreams +++ |
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Barbara Kingsolver |
| Prodigal Summer ++ |
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Barbara Kingsolver |
| By the Light of My Father's Smile + |
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Alice Walker |
| Inheritance + |
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Lan Samantha Chang |
| Garden Spells ++ |
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Sarah Addison Allen |
| The Name of the Wind ++ |
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Patrick Rothfuss |
| Mister Pip |
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Lloyd Jones |
| The Time Traveler's Wife ++ |
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Audrey Niffenegger |
| The Alchemist |
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Paulo Coelho |
| Blackberries in the Dream House ++ |
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Diane Frank |
| Secret Life of Bees ++++ |
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Sue Monk Kidd |
| Expecting Adam ++++ |
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Martha Beck |
| Bones of the Master ++++ |
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George Crane |
| Pigs in Heaven ++++ |
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Barbara Kingsolver |
| Bean Trees ++++ |
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Barbara Kingsolver |
| the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee mysteries ++++ |
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Tony Hillerman |
| Spider Woman's Daughter + |
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Anne Hillerman |
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