Indie Bestsellers
22The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, February 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. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
2. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
3. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
4. We All Live Here
Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9781984879325
5. Three Days in June
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $27, 9780593803486
6. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
Heather Fawcett, Del Rey, $29, 9780593500224
7. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635
8. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix, Berkley, $30, 9780593548981
9. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
10. Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649377159
11. Onyx Storm (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $32.99, 9781649374189
12. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
13. The Bones Beneath My Skin
TJ Klune, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250890436
14. We Do Not Part
Han Kang, e. yaewon (Transl.), Paige Aniyah Morris (Transl.), Hogarth, $28, 9780593595459
15. The Queens of Crime
Marie Benedict, St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250280756
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
Mel Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366
2. How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith
Mariann Edgar Budde, Avery, $28, 9780593539217
3. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
4. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Chris Hayes, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593653111
5. Memorial Days: A Memoir
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780593653982
6. Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Peter Beinart, Knopf, $26, 9780593803899
7. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
8. The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381
9. Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Eve L. Ewing, One World, $32, 9780593243701
10. On Freedom
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $32, 9780593728727
11. Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman
Brooke Shields, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250346940
12. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805
13. Source Code: My Beginnings
Bill Gates, Knopf, $30, 9780593801581
14. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223
15. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
2. Deep End
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593550441
3. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
4. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
5. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
6. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
7. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
8. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
10. Yellowface
R. F. Kuang, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063250857
11. Good Material
Dolly Alderton, Vintage, $18, 9780593686959
12. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
13. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006
14. The Crash
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464227325
15. The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $17, 978110190611
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
3. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
4. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
6. Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
Mohammed El-Kurd, Haymarket Books, $17.95, 9798888903155
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. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson, Penguin, $18, 9780593652985
9. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
10. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer, Penguin, $21, 9781984880826
11. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
12. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $20, 9780593139158
13. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
14. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
15. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286
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 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
5. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
6. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey, Signet, $10.99, 9780451163967
8. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
9. The Shining
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743657
10. The Inferno
Dante Alighieri, Signet, $7.95, 9780451531391
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. Love from Snoopy
Charles M. Schulz, Scott Jeralds (Illus.), Simon Spotlight, $9.99, 9781665968591
3. I Am Glinda (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896884
4. Knight Owl
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $17.99, 9780316310628
5. Happy Valentine's Day, Curious George!
H. A. Rey, Clarion Books, $10.99, 9780063384903
6. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
7. Girls on the Rise
Amanda Gorman, Loveis Wise (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593624180
8. Dr. Seuss's Who Loves You?
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780593648360
9. Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $9.99, 9780394800165
10. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133
2. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
3. Away
Megan E. Freeman, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665959728
4. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
5. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
6. Charlotte's Web
E. B. White, HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780064400558
7. Matilda
Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illus.), Puffin, $8.99, 9780142410370
8. The Labyrinth of Souls
Leslie Vedder, Abigail Larson (Illus.), G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593699119
9. The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542
10. Scholastic Book of World Records 2025
Scholastic, $14.99, 9781546122715
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
2. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
3. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
4. Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers (Cat Kid Comic Club, #5)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338896398
5. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
6. London Calling (City Spies, #6)
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665932509
7. Dog Man Unleashed
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741049
8. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
10. Dog Man and Cat Kid
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741063
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)