Indie Bestsellers
22The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, August 31, 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. Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $35, 9780063021471
2. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
3. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
4. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
5. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
6. The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
7. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
8. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
9. Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181
10. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
11. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
12. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
13. The View From Lake Como
Adriana Trigiani, Dutton, $29, 9780593183359
14. Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323
15. Hemlock & Silver
T. Kingfisher, Tor Books, $28.99, 9781250342034
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. Guinness World Records 2026
Guinness World Records, $29.95, 9781913484750
6. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288
7. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
8. Baldwin: A Love Story
Nicholas Boggs, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $36, 9780374178710
9. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
10. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
11. Mark Twain
Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $45, 9780525561729
12. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
13. I'm Just a Little Guy: How to Escape the Horrors and Get Back to Dillydallying
Charlie James, Quirk Books, $14.99, 9781683694946
14. Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run
Peter Ames Carlin, Doubleday, $30, 9780385551533
15. The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
Jonathan Mahler, Random House, $32, 9780525510635
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
3. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
4. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
5. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
6. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
7. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
8. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
9. One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910
10. The Secret Book Society
Madeline Martin, Hanover Square Press, $18.99, 9781335016287
11. The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $19, 9781250328151
12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
13. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
14. Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth, Melville House, $19.99, 9781685892111
15. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
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. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
5. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
6. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
7. On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good
Elise Loehnen, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $20, 9780593243053
8. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum, Vintage, $18, 9780593471203
9. The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781961793682
10. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431
11. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
12. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
13. Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
Ian Frazier, Picador, $22, 9781250390592
14. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
15. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
MASS MARKET
1. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
3. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
5. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
6. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
7. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
8. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
9. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
10. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232782
2. Tiny T. Rex and the First-Day Oopsies
Jonathan Stutzman, Jay Fleck (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $16.99, 9781797233208
3. Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063387843
4. The Going to Bed Book
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $6.99, 9780671449025
5. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
6. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
7. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
8. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
9. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
10. Elvis & Romeo
David Soman, Jacky Davis, Aladdin, $19.99, 9781665948067
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Space Case The Graphic Novel
Stuart Gibbs, Ward Jenkins (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665934817
2. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
3. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544336261
4. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
5. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
6. A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272
7. The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Clarion Books, $12.99, 9780156012195
8. The Trouble with Heroes
Kate Messner, Bloomsbury Children's Books, $17.99, 9781547616398
9. Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2026
Guinness World Records, $15.99, 9781913484767
10. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: Color Edition
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338687859
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
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
3. The Summer I Turned Pretty (Deluxe Edition)
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665983235
4. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
5. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories: Deluxe Collector's Edition (The Awesome Friendly Series)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $17.99, 9781419786020
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
7. The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780759555402
8. It's Not Summer Without You (Deluxe Edition) (The Summer I Turned Pretty)
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665983228
9. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
10. Cat Kid Comic Club
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338712766
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)