Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, September 14, 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. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
2. Buckeye
Patrick Ryan, Random House, $30, 9780593595039
3. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
4. Katabasis (Standard Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
5. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
6. Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $35, 9780063021471
7. Clown Town
Mick Herron, Soho Crime, $29.95, 9781641297264
8. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
9. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
10. The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
11. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
12. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
13. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
14. Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181
15. Vera, or Faith
Gary Shteyngart, Random House, $28, 9780593595091
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $35, 9780593540985
2. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
3. 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
4. Art Work: On the Creative Life
Sally Mann, Abrams Press, $35, 9781419780714
5. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
6. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
7. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288
8. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
9. The Book of Sheen: A Memoir
Charlie Sheen, Gallery Books, $35, 9781668075289
10. Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
Stephen Greenblatt, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393882278
11. Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst
Bill O'Reilly, Josh Hammer, St. Martin's Press, $32, 9781250374042
12. Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization
Bill McKibben, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324106234
13. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
14. The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
Seth Harp, Viking, $30, 9780593655085
15. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
2. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840
3. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
4. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
5. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
6. The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Penguin, $19, 9780593489291
7. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
8. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
9. Rejection: Fiction
Tony Tulathimutte, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063337886
10. A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Sangu Mandanna, Berkley, $19, 9780593439371
11. The Surrogate Mother
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464227301
12. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
13. The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $19, 9781250328151
14. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
15. The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners
Edward P. Jones (Ed.), Vintage, $19, 9780593689608
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
3. The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781961793682
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
5. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
6. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
7. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
8. An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2026
Susan Gail Johnson, Abbeville Press, $12.95, 9780789254771
9. Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
Laura Lynne Jackson, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $22, 9780399591617
10. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
11. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
12. Holler at Your Dreams: Dangerously Inspiring Ideas for the Wildly Dope Soul
Judi Holler, Holla! Worldwide, $34.99, 9781734825084
13. The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
Wright Thompson, Penguin Books, $22, 9780593299845
14. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
15. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
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 Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
5. The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, Signet, $6.95, 9780451531056
6. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
7. Poems: Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553255768
8. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
9. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Richard Scarry's Halloween Cars and Trucks
Richard Scarry, Random House Books for Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593905166
2. Just Shine!: How to Be a Better You
Sonia Sotomayor, Jacqueline Alcántara (Illus.), Philomel Books, $18.99, 9780593206294
3. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
4. Hansel and Gretel
Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.), HarperCollins, $26.99, 9780062644695
5. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
6. Noisy Halloween
Hettie Cox, Tiger Tales, $14.99, 9781664351332
7. My Grandma and Grandpa Rock!
Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo, Tiffany Everett (Illus.), Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $18.99, 9781728298023
8. Aggie and the Ghost
Matthew Forsythe, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, $19.99, 9781534478206
9. Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232782
10. It's Halloween, Curious George!
H.A. Rey, Clarion Books, $7.99, 9780063386334
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
2. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
3. Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362
4. The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
5. Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961080
6. Charlotte's Web
E. B. White, HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780064400558
7. Falling Like Leaves
Misty Wilson, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $12.99, 9781665975193
8. Alone
Megan E. Freeman, Aladdin, $9.99, 9781534467576
9. Five Survive
Holly Jackson, Ember, $14.99, 9780593374191
10. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Witches of Brooklyn: Curse and Reverse: (A Graphic Novel)
Sophie Escabasse, Random House Graphic, $13.99, 9780593813430
2. InvestiGators: Case Files
John Patrick Green, Steve Behling, Chris Fenoglio (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250223227
3. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
4. Fearful: A Powerless Story (The Powerless Trilogy)
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9781665971072
5. The Summer I Turned Pretty (Deluxe Edition)
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665983235
6. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $10.99, 9781984896391
7. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
8. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
9. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
10. Bones and Berserkers (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #13): 13 True Tales of Terror from American History
Nathan Hale, Abrams Fanfare, $15.99, 9781419773204
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)