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We’ve collected the books debuting on Indiebound’s Indie Bestseller List for the week ending December 11, 2011–a sneak peek at the books everybody will be talking about next month.
(Debuted at #1 in Hardcover Fiction) Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James: “It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy’s magnificent estate…preparations are under way for their much-anticipated annual autumn ball. Then, on the eve of the ball, the patrician idyll is shattered. A coach careens up the drive carrying Lydia, Elizabeth’s disgraced sister, who with her husband, the very dubious Wickham, has been banned from Pemberley. She stumbles out of the carriage, hysterical, shrieking that Wickham has been murdered.” (December 2011)
(Debuted at #15 in Children’s Interest) The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater: “Some race to win. Others race to survive. It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die.” (October 2011)
(Debuted at #10 in Children’s Fiction Series) Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices serise) by Cassandra Clare: “In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street—and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa’s powers for his own dark ends.” (December 2011)