Dec 6 2011 - 2:04pm

The Mountains and Plains Indie Bestseller List, provided by IndieBound and MPIBA, for the week ended Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the MPIBA and IndieBound.

Trade paperback fiction

1. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett (Berkley, $16)


3. "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese (Vintage, $15.95)



6. "Room" by Emma Donoghue (Back Bay, $14.99)





11. "Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk" by David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus.) (Back Bay, $13.99)

12. "Started Early, Took My Dog" by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books, $14.99)

13. "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen (Picador, $16)

14. "The Postmistress" by Sarah Blake (Berkley, $15)

15. "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford (Ballantine, $15)

Trade paperback nonfiction

1. "Unlikely Friendships" by Jennifer S. Holland (Workman, $13.95)

2. "Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall (Vintage, $15.95)

3. "At Home" by Bill Bryson (Anchor, $15.95)



6. "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $16.99)

7. "The Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin (Harper, $14.99)

8. "Cleopatra" by Stacy Schiff (Back Bay, $16.99)

9. "F in Exams" by Richard Benson (Chronicle, $9.95)

10. "Just Kids" by Patti Smith (Ecco, $16)

11. "The Emperor of All Maladies" by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner, $18)


13. "I Remember Nothing" by Nora Ephron (Vintage, $14)

14. "A Secret Gift" by Ted Gup (Penguin, $16)

15. "1491" by Charles C. Mann (Vintage, $16.95)

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