Indie Bestsellers
22The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, February 23, 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. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
5. Three Days in June
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $27, 9780593803486
6. Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649377159
7. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
8. Isola
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $28.99, 9780593730089
9. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635
10. Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374172
11. The Queens of Crime
Marie Benedict, St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250280756
12. Onyx Storm (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $32.99, 9781649374189
13. We Do Not Part
Han Kang, e. yaewon (Transl.), Paige Aniyah Morris (Transl.), Hogarth, $28, 9780593595459
14. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix, Berkley, $30, 9780593548981
15. Dream State
Eric Puchner, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550666
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. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
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. How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith
Mariann Edgar Budde, Avery, $28, 9780593539217
7. Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Peter Beinart, Knopf, $26, 9780593803899
8. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895
9. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223
10. On Freedom
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $32, 9780593728727
11. Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
Katherine Stewart, Bloomsbury Publishing, $29.99, 9781635578546
12. Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
Susan Morrison, Random House, $36, 9780812988871
13. You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
Kelsey McKinney, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538757406
14. What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts)
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $35, 9781668055687
15. Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
Imani Perry, Ecco, $28.99, 9780062977397
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
2. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
3. Deep End
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593550441
4. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
5. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
6. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
7. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384
8. The Crash
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464227325
9. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
10. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
11. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400
12. Yellowface
R. F. Kuang, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063250857
13. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006
14. Good Material
Dolly Alderton, Vintage, $18, 9780593686959
15. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
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. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
5. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593449240
6. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
7. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer, Penguin, $21, 9781984880826
8. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson, Penguin, $18, 9780593652985
9. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
10. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
11. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631492228
12. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
13. King: A Life
Jonathan Eig, Picador, $23, 9781250335647
14. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Morgan Housel, Harriman House, $19.99, 9780857197689
15. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
MASS MARKET
1. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
3. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296
4. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
5. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
6. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
7. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345514400
8. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
9. Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345337665
10. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
4. Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $10.99, 9780358451228
5. Knight Owl and Early Bird
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $18.99, 9780316564526
6. Pajama Time!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $7.99, 9781665924979
7. Little Blue Truck Feeling Happy
Alice Schertle, Clarion Books, $14.99, 9780063342705
8. Bluey: Hooray, It's Easter!
Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593750841
9. Knight Owl
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $17.99, 9780316310628
10. The Book With No Pictures
B.J. Novak, Dial, $17.99, 9780803741713
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
2. A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133
3. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
4. Weirdest Animals on the Planet
National Geographic Kids, National Geographic Kids, $9.99, 9781426375873
5. Scholastic Year in Sports 2025
James Buckley, Scholastic, $14.99, 9781546131571
6. The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315
7. Wings of Starlight
Allison Saft, Disney Press, $18.99, 9781368098458
8. The Tryout: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741261
9. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
10. The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316554732
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
3. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
4. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $10.99, 9781984896391
5. InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Wild Ghost Chase
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250852403
6. Escaping Peril: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #8)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339001234
7. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
8. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741032
9. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
10. Dog Man Unleashed
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741049
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)