Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, September 1, 2024, 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 God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
2. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
3. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
4. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
5. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
6. By Any Other Name
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593497210
7. All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $30, 9780593798874
8. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper, $26.99, 9780063345164
9. Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Random House, $30, 9780593133491
10. Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370
11. Long Island
Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $28, 9781476785110
12. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
13. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668045145
14. Burn
Peter Heller, Knopf, $28, 9780593801628
15. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744
2. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
4. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668048047
5. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
Evan Friss, Viking, $30, 9780593299920
6. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
Nate Silver, Penguin Press, $35, 9781594204128
7. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663
8. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
9. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum, Doubleday, $27, 9780385549936
10. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
Daniel J. Levitin, W. W. Norton & Company, $32.50, 9781324036180
11. Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
Ian Frazier, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35, 9780374280567
12. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593652824
13. Embracing Hope: On Freedom, Responsibility & the Meaning of Life
Viktor E. Frankl, Beacon Press, $21.95, 9780807020432
14. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
Anna Marie Tendler, Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668032343
15. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
2. It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781668055960
3. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
4. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
5. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
6. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064
7. A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575583
8. The Housemaid Is Watching
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464221132
9. It Starts with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $17.99, 9781668001226
10. Daydream
Hannah Grace, Atria, $19.99, 9781668026250
11. Kairos
Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann (Transl.), New Directions, $16.95, 9780811238533
12. Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431
13. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933
14. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
15. The Housemaid's Secret
Freida McFadden, Mobius, $12.99, 9780349132617
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
2. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
3. The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris, Penguin, $20, 9780525560739
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
5. The 2025 Old Farmer's Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781571989932
6. Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance, Harper, $18.99, 9780062300553
7. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
8. Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover, Random House, $18.99, 9780399590528
9. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
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. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
12. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324105817
13. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286
14. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
15. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $19, 9780593512302
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2. A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
3. The Shining
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743657
4. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
5. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
6. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
7. Carrie
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743664
8. Frankenstein
Mary Shelley, Signet, $6.95, 9780451532244
9. Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $9.99, 9781451669411
10. 'Salem's Lot
Stephen King, Anchor, $10.99, 9780307743671
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. The Yellow Bus
Loren Long, Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250903136
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718
4. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
5. The Dictionary Story
Oliver Jeffers, Sam Winston, Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536235500
6. The Night Before Preschool
Natasha Wing, Amy Wummer (Illus.), Grosset & Dunlap, $5.99, 9780448454511
7. Bluey: The Beach
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593226094
8. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
9. Into the Goblin Market
Vikki VanSickle, Jensine Eckwall (Illus.), Tundra Books, $18.99, 9780735268562
10. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019
2. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
3. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
4. The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues
Beth Lincoln, Claire Powell (Illus.), Dutton Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780593533260
5. Coraline
Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illus.), Harper, $9.99, 9780380807345
6. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877
7. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
8. Swim School: A Bluey Storybook
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593752791
9. Mini Bluey: A Bluey Storybook
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593752814
10. Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
Alan Gratz, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338736076
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
2. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
3. Amari and the Despicable Wonders (Supernatural Investigations, #3)
B. B. Alston, Balzer + Bray, $19.99, 9780062975225
4. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
5. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316382007
6. Cat on the Run in Cucumber Madness! (Cat on the Run, #2)
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic, $7.99, 9781339000923
7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, Book 1)
J. K. Rowling, Scholastic, $12.99, 9781338878929
8. Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Book 2)
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896438
9. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $12.99, 9781524714758
10. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741032
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)