Indie Bestsellers
22The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, August 3, 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. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
2. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
3. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
4. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
5. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
6. The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
7. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
8. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
9. An Inside Job
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217
10. Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181
11. Vera, or Faith
Gary Shteyngart, Random House, $28, 9780593595091
12. The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $29, 9780593874325
13. Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323
14. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
15. The View From Lake Como
Adriana Trigiani, Dutton, $29, 9780593183359
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. 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
2. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
3. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
4. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
5. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
6. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
7. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
8. Gwyneth: The Biography
Amy Odell, Gallery Books, $30.99, 9781668005774
9. Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
Nate Bargatze, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538768464
10. The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy
James Patterson, Vicky Ward, Little, Brown and Company, $32.50, 9780316572859
11. Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering
Joseph Nguyen, Authors Equity, $22, 9798893310153
12. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
13. Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America
Michael M. Grynbaum, Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668003916
14. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133
15. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
2. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
3. One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910
4. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
5. Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $19, 9780593798621
6. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
8. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
9. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
10. Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors, Ballantine Books, $18, 9780593723784
11. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
12. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
13. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400
14. Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $20, 9781982116538
15. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
3. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
4. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Rick Atkinson, Holt Paperbacks, $23.99, 9781250231321
5. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
6. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
7. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
8. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
9. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
10. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
11. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
12. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431
13. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
14. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286
15. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780062993168
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
4. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
5. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
6. Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062693662
7. The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka, Bantam Classics, $6.95, 9780553213690
8. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
9. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. Where's Waldo?
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210651
3. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
4. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
5. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274
6. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
7. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
8. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
9. Tiny T. Rex and the First-Day Oopsies
Jonathan Stutzman, Jay Fleck (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $16.99, 9781797233208
10. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
2. The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel
Maggie Stiefvater, Stephanie Williams, Sas Milledge (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780593621189
3. Glorious Rivals
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780316481311
4. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
5. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
6. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
7. Nothing Like the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665947138
8. Miss Camper: A Graphic Novel
Kat Fajardo, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338535617
9. Bluey 5-Minute Stories: 6 Stories in 1 Book? Hooray!
Penguin Young Readers, $14.99, 9780593521908
10. A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780062895943
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
2. The Summer I Turned Pretty (Deluxe Edition)
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665983235
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
4. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $9.99, 9781368051477
5. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
6. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
7. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $10.99, 9781984896391
8. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $12.99, 9781524714758
9. Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy)
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884
10. Karen's Ghost: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, #11)
Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339005102
Other Regional Bestseller Lists:
California Independent Booksellers Alliance (CALIBA)
Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association (GLIBA)
Midwest Independent Booksellers Association (MIBA)
Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA)
New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA)