Indie Bestsellers
22The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, April 6, 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. Say You'll Remember Me
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $28, 9781538759196
2. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
3. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
4. Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $32, 9780593802724
5. Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181
6. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
7. Heartwood
Amity Gaige, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668063606
8. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
9. Twist
Colum McCann, Random House, $28, 9780593241738
10. The Sirens
Emilia Hart, St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250280824
11. The Antidote
Karen Russell, Knopf, $30, 9780593802250
12. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
13. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
14. The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami, Pantheon, $29, 9780593317600
15. Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories
Torrey Peters, Random House, $28, 9780593595640
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. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Flatiron Books, $32.99, 9781250391230
3. Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525426059
4. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
5. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
6. The Tell: A Memoir
Amy Griffin, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593731208
7. When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
Graydon Carter, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593655900
8. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
9. Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America
Elie Mystal, The New Press, $26.99, 9781620978580
10. I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home
Maria Shriver, The Open Field, $30, 9780593653395
11. Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Russell Shorto, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9780393881165
12. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
13. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Chris Hayes, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593653111
14. Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
Michael Lewis (Ed.), Riverhead Books, $30, 9798217047802
15. Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum
Elaine Sciolino, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324021407
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
2. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
3. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
4. Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $19, 9780063327535
5. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
6. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
7. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Vintage, $19, 9780593314487
8. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
9. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
10. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
11. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
12. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384
13. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
14. Yellowface
R. F. Kuang, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063250857
15. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
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. A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797232751
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
5. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
6. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
7. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
8. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593448809
9. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $19, 9780375725784
10. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
Jason Stanley, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $19, 9780525511854
11. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
12. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
13. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593449240
14. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
15. On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Nora Krug (Illus.), Ten Speed Graphic, $16.99, 9781984859150
MASS MARKET
. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. The Inferno
Dante Alighieri, Signet, $7.95, 9780451531391
4. The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka, Bantam Classics, $6.95, 9780553213690
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
6. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
7. The Shining
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743657
8. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
9. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $9.99, 9780553283686
10. Carrie
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743664
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Little Blue Truck's Springtime
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9780544938090
2. Will the Pigeon Graduate?
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454960430
3. Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063387843
4. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
5. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
6. Your Forest
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536230833
7. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
8. Richard Scarry's Bunnies
Richard Scarry, Golden Books, $6.99, 9780593899151
9. Knight Owl
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $17.99, 9780316310628
10. Good Dog, Carl
Alexandra Day, Alexandra Day (Illus.), Little Simon, $7.99, 9780689807480
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
2. Rebellion 1776
Laurie Halse Anderson, Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $18.99, 9781416968269
3. Powerless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884
4. Wings of Starlight
Allison Saft, Disney Press, $18.99, 9781368098458
5. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
6. The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542
7. Bluey 5-Minute Stories: 6 Stories in 1 Book? Hooray!
Penguin Young Readers, $14.99, 9780593521908
8. Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880
9. The Liars Society: A Risky Game
Alyson Gerber, Scholastic Press, $14.99, 9781338859249
10. A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
2. Mallory and the Trouble with Twins: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338835618
3. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
4. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
5. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
7. Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $14.99, 9780545586177
8. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
9. Oathbound (The Legendborn Cycle, #3)
Tracy Deonn, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665951906
10. Spy Ski School the Graphic Novel (Spy School the Graphic Novel)
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665956604
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)