Kate Atkinson's 'Life After Life' Takes Top Position on NPR's Bestsellers' list

Kate Atkinson's "Life After Life" takes top position on NPR's Bestsellers' list for the first week since its release.

Kate Atkinson's "Life After Life" stole poll position on NPR's Bestsellers' list from Elizabeth Strout's "The Burgess Boys" which was at the number one spot last week, ending Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl" number one position run for four consecutive weeks.

The rest of the list reads as such:

HARD COVER FICTION

1. "Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson - Weeks on the list: 1

2. "The Burgess Boys" by Elizabeth Strout - Weeks on the list: 2

3. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn - Weeks on the list: 41

4. "Leaving Everything Most Loved" by Jacqueline Winspear - Weeks on the list: 2

5. "Z" by Therese Anne Fowler - Weeks on the list: 2

6. "Tenth Of December" by George Saunders - Weeks on the list: 13

7. "The Dinner" by Herman Koch - Weeks on the list: 8

8.  "All That Is" by James Salter - Weeks on the list: 1

9. "A Week in Winter" by Maeve Binchy - Weeks on the list: 8

10. "Six Years" by Harlan Coben - Weeks on the list: 3

HARD COVER NON-FICTION

1. "Lean In" by Sheryl Sandberg - Weeks on the list: 4

2. "Gulp" by Mary Roach - Weeks on the list: 1      

3. "I Could Pee On This" by Francesco Marciuliano - Weeks on the list: 33

4. "Help, Thanks, Wow" by Anne Lamott - Weeks on the list: 21

5. "The Drunken Botanist" by Amy Stewart - Weeks on the list: 4

6. "The FastDiet" by Michael, Dr. Mosley and Mimi Spencer - Weeks on the list: 3

7. "It's All Good" by Gwyneth Paltrow - Weeks on the list: 1

8. "My Beloved World" by Sonia Sotomayor - Weeks on the list: 12

9. "Clean" by David Sheff - Weeks on the list: 1

10. "Behind The Beautiful Forevers" by Katherine Boo - Weeks on the list: 28

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