Indie Bestsellers
22The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, May 4, 2025, based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
2. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
3. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
4. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
5. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
6. The Amalfi Curse
Sarah Penner, Park Row, $30, 9780778308003
7. Strangers in Time
David Baldacci, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538742051
8. The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami, Pantheon, $29, 9780593317600
9. The Staircase in the Woods
Chuck Wendig, Del Rey, $30, 9780593156568
10. Twist
Colum McCann, Random House, $28, 9780593241738
11. The Sirens
Emilia Hart, St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250280824
12. Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $32, 9780593802724
13. Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323
14. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones, S&S/Saga Press, $29.99, 9781668075081
15. Heartwood
Amity Gaige, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668063606
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
Rick Atkinson, Crown, $42, 9780593799185
2. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366
3. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
4. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
5. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
6. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
7. Notes to John
Joan Didion, Knopf, $32, 9780593803677
8. SNAFU: The Definitive Guide to History's Greatest Screwups
Ed Helms, Grand Central Publishing, $32, 9781538769478
9. Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
Michael Lewis (Ed.), Riverhead Books, $30, 9798217047802
10. John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
Ian Leslie, Celadon Books, $32, 9781250869548
11. When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
Graydon Carter, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593655900
12. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
13. This American Woman: A One-In-A-Billion Memoir
Zarna Garg, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593975022
14. Uptown Girl: A Memoir
Christie Brinkley, Harper Influence, $34, 9780063385757
15. Hope: The Autobiography
Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Random House, $32, 9780593978771
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
2. Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $19, 9780063327535
3. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
4. Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Penguin Books, $19, 9780593296394
5. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
6. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
7. The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $19, 9780812986372
8. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384
9. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
10. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
11. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
12. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
13. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
14. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
15. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Vintage, $19, 9780593314487
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
4. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
6. A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797232751
7. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer, Penguin, $21, 9781984880826
8. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208
9. The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America
David A. Graham, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $16, 9798217153725
10. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
11. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
12. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
13. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Rick Atkinson, Holt Paperbacks, $19.99, 9781250231321
14. A History of Philadelphia Sandwiches: Steaks, Hoagies, Iconic Eateries & More
Mike Madaio, History Press, $24.99, 9781467152020
15. A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine
Chris Hedges, Seven Stories Press, $18.95, 9781644214855
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
4. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296
5. A Dance With Dragons
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9781101886038
6. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
7. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
8. The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan, Tor, $10.99, 9781250251466
9. The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka, Bantam Classics, $6.95, 9780553213690
10. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
3. Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063387843
4. Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $10.99, 9780358451228
5. Don't Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673
6. Will the Pigeon Graduate?
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454960430
7. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
8. Your Forest
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536230833
9. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
10. Grumpy Monkey Mom for a Day
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $12.99, 9780593709313
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
2. The Trouble with Heroes
Kate Messner, Bloomsbury Children's Books, $17.99, 9781547616398
3. Wings of Starlight
Allison Saft, Random House/Disney, $18.99, 9781368098458
4. Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801897
5. Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019
6. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
7. A First Time for Everything
Dan Santat, First Second, $14.99, 9781250851048
8. Outsider Kids: A Parachute Kids Graphic Novel
Betty C. Tang, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338832716
9. Girl in Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow, Ember, $10.99, 9781101934746
10. Bluey 5-Minute Stories: 6 Stories in 1 Book? Hooray!
Penguin Young Readers, $14.99, 9780593521908
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
2. Fearless (The Powerless Trilogy)
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665955461
3. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
4. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339016580
5. The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780759555402
6. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
7. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
8. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
9. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
10. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $10.99, 9781984896391
Other Regional Bestseller Lists:
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Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association (GLIBA)
Midwest Independent Booksellers Association (MIBA)
Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA)
New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA)