Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, April 28, 2024, 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. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441282
2. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
3. Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370
4. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
5. The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250884251
6. The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29, 9780812996302
7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946
8. The Hunter
Tana French, Viking, $32, 9780593493434
9. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
10. A Calamity of Souls
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $30, 9781538765029
11. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922
12. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619
13. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House, $28, 9780593597033
14. The Husbands
Holly Gramazio, Doubleday, $29, 9780385550611
15. The Bee Sting
Paul Murray, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30, 9780374600303
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie, Random House, $28, 9780593730249
2. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663
3. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
4. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $22, 9780593714416
5. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Fareed Zakaria, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9780393239232
6. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
7. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28.99, 9781668007976
8. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764
9. The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
Adam Moss, Penguin Press, $45, 9780593297582
10. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
11. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib, Random House, $32, 9780593448793
12. Secrets of the Octopus
Sy Montgomery, National Geographic, $30, 9781426223723
13. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea, St. Martin's Press, $32, 9781250325778
14. The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
Kevin Baker, Knopf, $35, 9780375421839
15. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
James Patterson, Matt Eversmann, Little, Brown and Company, $28, 9780316567534
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431
2. Happy Place
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441190
3. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
4. The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.), Tor, $18.99, 9780765382030
5. A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707
6. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson, Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063279032
7. A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575583
8. Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson, Penguin, $18, 9780593490716
9. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
10. I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai, Penguin, $19, 9780593490167
11. Small Mercies
Dennis Lehane, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780062129499
12. A Court of Wings and Ruin
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575606
13. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
14. Weyward
Emilia Hart, St. Martin's Griffin, $19, 9781250842725
15. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780441013593
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
2. Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $20, 9780593239933
3. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
4. The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
Katie Holten, Tin House Books, $19.95, 9781959030782
5. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
6. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $18, 9780593470831
7. A Book of Days
Patti Smith, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593730386
8. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
9. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Michelle Obama, Crown, $19.99, 9780593237489
10. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
11. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
12. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
13. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fumi Nakamura (Illus.), Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781639550562
14. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
15. Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover, Random House, $18.99, 9780399590528
MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
2. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
3. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
4. Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441104024
5. Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett, Harper, $9.99, 9780062225757
6. Chapterhouse: Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098271
7. Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9780765365293
8. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo, Bantam Classics, $5.95, 9780553213706
9. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
10. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
4. Bubbly Beautiful Kitty-Corn
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Harry N. Abrams, $19.99, 9781419768774
5. Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten
Michelle Knudsen, Kevin Hawkes (Illus.), Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536219111
6. Little Blue Truck Feeling Happy
Alice Schertle, Clarion Books, $14.99, 9780063342705
7. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274
8. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
9. Mister Seahorse's Ocean Friends
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $9.99, 9780593750711
10. Bluey: Daddy Putdown
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593750865
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593374207
2. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
3. Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross, Wednesday Books, $18.99, 9781250857439
4. Check & Mate
Ali Hazelwood, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $14, 9780593619919
5. If Only I Had Told Her
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $12.99, 9781728276229
6. Ruthless Vows
Rebecca Ross, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250857453
7. Powerless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884
8. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264
9. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361
10. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, Harper, $10.99, 9780064400558
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
2. Who Is Taylor Swift? (Who Was/Is...?)
Kirsten Anderson, Gregory Copeland (Illus.), Penguin Workshop, $6.99, 9780593754221
3. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
4. Claudia and the Bad Joke: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix, #15)
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338835502
5. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316382007
6. Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers (Cat Kid Comic Club, #5)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338896398
7. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $12.99, 9781524714758
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766947
9. Sunny Makes Her Case: A Graphic Novel (Sunny, #5)
Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew Holm (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338792447
10. InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: From Badger to Worse
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250852397
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)