Indie Bestsellers
22The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, January 19, 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. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix, Berkley, $30, 9780593548981
4. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635
5. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
6. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
7. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
8. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
9. The Stolen Queen
Fiona Davis, Dutton, $29, 9780593474273
10. All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $30, 9780593798874
11. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096
12. Water Moon
Samantha Sotto Yambao, Del Rey, $28.99, 9780593724996
13. Beautiful Ugly
Alice Feeney, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250337788
14. Time of the Child
Niall Williams, Bloomsbury Publishing, $28.99, 9781639734207
15. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $35, 9780593801970
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 Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
3. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895
4. Aflame: Learning from Silence
Pico Iyer, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593420287
5. The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy—and Why It Failed
Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250790576
6. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
7. Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman
Brooke Shields, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250346940
8. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
9. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764
10. The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
Adam Moss, Penguin Press, $45, 9780593297582
11. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663
12. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744
13. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805
14. The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381
15. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
2. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
3. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
4. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
5. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
6. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
7. None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell, Atria Books, $18.99, 9781982179014
8. You Dreamed of Empires
Álvaro Enrigue, Riverhead Books, $18, 9780593544808
9. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400
10. Yellowface
R. F. Kuang, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063250857
11. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
12. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
13. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
14. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384
15. The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $17, 9781101906118
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
3. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
5. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286
6. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
7. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
8. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593449240
9. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
10. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
11. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
12. The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus, Vintage, $16, 9780525564454
13. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
14. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Morgan Housel, Harriman House, $19.99, 9780857197689
15. Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $20, 9780593239933
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
5. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
6. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
7. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553208849
8. The Shining
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743657
9. Emma
Jane Austen, Bantam Classics, $5.95, 9780553212730
10. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801
3. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
4. Little Love Bug (Little Finger Puppet)
Emily Dove (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781452181745
5. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
6. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
7. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
8. The Mitten
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780399231094
9. Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210637
10. Girls on the Rise
Amanda Gorman, Loveis Wise (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593624180
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. After Life
Gayle Forman, Quill Tree Books, $19.99, 9780063346147
2. Chickenpox
Remy Lai, Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks, $14.99, 9781250863294
3. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
4. The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315
5. Nothing Like the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665947138
6. Scholastic Year in Sports 2025
James Buckley, Scholastic, $14.99, 9781546131571
7. Haru: Book 1: Spring
Joe Latham, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781524884734
8. The Last Bookstore on Earth
Lily Braun-Arnold, Delacorte Press, $19.99, 9780593899489
9. The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
10. The Sherlock Society
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665932530
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. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
4. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
5. Escaping Peril: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #8)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339001234
6. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, Book 1)
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $12.99, 9781338878929
8. Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo, Square Fish, $11.99, 9781250076960
9. Karen's Sleepover: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, #8)
Katy Farina (Illus.), Ann M. Martin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762549
10. The Bad Guys in One Last Thing (The Bad Guys, #20)
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic Paperbacks, $6.99, 9781546111801
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)