Indie Bestsellers
22The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, March 16, 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. Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $32, 9780593802724
2. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
3. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
4. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
5. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
6. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
7. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635
8. The Antidote
Karen Russell, Knopf, $30, 9780593802250
9. The Jackal's Mistress
Chris Bohjalian, Doubleday, $29, 9780385547642
10. Three Days in June
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $27, 9780593803486
11. Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories
Torrey Peters, Random House, $28, 9780593595640
12. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
13. Isola
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $28.99, 9780593730089
14. Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649377159
15. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096
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. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
4. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
5. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
6. The Tell: A Memoir
Amy Griffin, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593731208
7. Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Russell Shorto, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9780393881165
8. How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith
Mariann Edgar Budde, Avery, $28, 9780593539217
9. Care and Feeding: A Memoir
Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $28.99, 9780063327603
10. How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion
Yung Pueblo, Harmony, $27, 9780593582275
11. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805
12. Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful
David Enrich, Mariner Books, $32.99, 9780063372900
13. Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech
Maureen Dowd, Harper, $32.50, 9780063392229
14. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Chris Hayes, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593653111
15. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
2. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
3. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
4. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
5. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
6. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384
7. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
8. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
9. Night Watch
Jayne Anne Phillips, Vintage, $18, 9781101972793
10. Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, Simon & Schuster, $17, 9781451673319
11. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
12. Long Island
Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $18.99, 9781476785127
13. Deep End
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593550441
14. Yellowface
R. F. Kuang, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063250857
15. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
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. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
5. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
7. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
8. A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797232751
9. On Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau, Hannah Arendt, Library of America, $12.5, 9781598537918
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. Who's Afraid of Gender?
Judith Butler, Picador, $20, 9781250371911
12. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
Marion Gibson, Scribner, $19.99, 9781668002438
13. Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807014271
14. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
15. On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Nora Krug (Illus.), Ten Speed Graphic, $16.99, 9781984859150
MASS MARKET
1. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
3. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
4. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345514400
6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
7. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296
8. The Inferno
Dante Alighieri, Signet, $7.95, 9780451531391
9. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
10. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. Will the Pigeon Graduate?
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454960430
3. Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $9.99, 9780394800165
4. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
5. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
6. The Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $9.99, 9780394800011
7. New York Is...
Elisa Parhad, Alexander Vidal (Illus.), Abrams Appleseed, $12.99, 9781951836498
8. I Am Glinda (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896884
9. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
10. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315
2. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
3. Bluey 5-Minute Stories: 6 Stories in 1 Book? Hooray!
Penguin Young Readers, $14.99, 9780593521908
4. The Lost Library
Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250838834
5. Refugee
Alan Gratz, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9780545880831
6. The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196
8. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781524764203
9. Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross, Wednesday Books, $18.99, 9781250857439
10. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
2. InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Wild Ghost Chase
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250852403
3. Mallory and the Trouble with Twins: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338835618
4. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
5. Oathbound (The Legendborn Cycle, #3)
Tracy Deonn, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665951906
6. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
8. Dog Man Unleashed
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741049
9. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $10.99, 9781984896391
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)