Indie Bestsellers
18The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, February 8, 2026, 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 Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
2. Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622
3. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
4. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
5. Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723739
6. Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799
7. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
8. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
9. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
10. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
11. Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 9780374619237
12. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
13. My Husband's Wife
Alice Feeney, Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, $28.99, 9781250337818
14. Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820261
15. Anatomy of an Alibi
Ashley Elston, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593834459
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318
2. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
3. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
4. Football
Chuck Klosterman, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593490648
5. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
6. Where We Keep the Light: Stories from a Life of Service
Josh Shapiro, Harper, $30, 9780063463905
7. 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
8. Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life
Ezekiel J.Emanuel, M.D., W. W. Norton & Company, $28.99, 9781324117537
9. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
10. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781982181314
11. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
12. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
13. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
14. History Matters
David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, $27, 9781668098998
15. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
2. Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637
3. Game Changer
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534620
4. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Emily Brontë, Ruben Toledo (Illus.), Penguin Classics, $18, 9780143105435
5. The Long Game
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644
6. Dear Debbie
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464249624
7. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
8. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
9. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
10. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.), New Directions, $15.95, 9780811237253
11. Heartwood
Amity Gaige, Simon & Schuster, $19, 9781668063613
12. The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
Takuya Asakura, HarperCollins, $18.99, 9780008736897
13. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
14. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
15. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470
2. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
3. Restore: 90 Days of Intentional Living in Life, Faith, Business
Dana Gentry, Avail, $21.99, 9781969062049
4. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
5. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
6. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
7. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
8. Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
Laura Lynne Jackson, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $22, 9780399591617
9. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
10. Night
Elie Wiesel, FSG, $13, 9780374500016
11. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
12. The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood
Stacy Horn, Gillian Flynn Books, $18, 9781638934011
13. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $19, 9781668007983
14. Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255
15. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
Gillian Anderson, Abrams Press, $18, 9781419777301
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
2. Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë, Bantam Classics, $6.95, 9780553212587
3. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
4. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
5. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
6. The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, Signet, $7.95, 9780451529701
7. Bridgerton: An Offer From a Gentleman
Julia Quinn, Avon, $9.99, 9780063139510
8. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
9. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
10. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bantam Classics, $7.99, 9780553212419
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Little Blue Truck's Valentine
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780358272441
2. Smooches!
Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780316574686
3. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
4. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
5. Rumpelstiltskin
Mac Barnett, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Orchard Books, $19.99, 9781338673852
6. Chicka Chicka I Love You
Bill Martin Jr., John Archambault, Julien Chung (Illus.), Little Simon, $9.99, 9781665980876
7. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
8. Home: A Peek-Through Board Book
Britta Teckentrup, Doubleday Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593518953
9. Bath Time for the Crayons
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $9.99, 9780593694879
10. Love from Clifford the Big Red Dog
Norman Bridwell, Scholastic, $9.99, 9781546175933
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Lions' Run
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250392817
2. Unsettling Salad! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961110
3. Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880
4. Greeking Out Tales from the Underworld: Ghostly Myths from Around the Globe
Kenny Curtis, Jillian Hughes, Javier Espila (Illus.), National Geographic Kids, $19.99, 9781426378126
5. Winnie-the-Pooh: 100th Anniversary Edition
A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illus.), Aladdin, $10.99, 9781665984126
6. Wonder
R.J. Palacio, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9781524720193
7. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544336261
8. The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World
Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price, Cynthia Yuan Cheng (Illus.), Rocky Pond Books, $14.99, 9798217111916
9. Stuart Little: Full Color Edition
E.B. White, Garth Williams (Illus.), Rosemary Wells (Illus.), HarperCollins, $12.99, 9780064410922
10. Medusa
Katherine Marsh, Storytide, $9.99, 9780063303751
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419782695
3. Hilo Presents: The Mighty: (A Graphic Novel)
Judd Winick, Random House Graphic, $14.99, 9780593305300
4. Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon, Dial Books, $7.99, 9780147510679
5. Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #9)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001265
6. Jessi Ramsey, Pet-Sitter: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #18) (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338835656
7. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
8. Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Castle, #1)
Diana Wynne Jones, Greenwillow Books, $11.99, 9780061478789
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:
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)