Indie Bestsellers
22The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, August 10, 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. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
2. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
3. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
4. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
5. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
6. Vera, or Faith
Gary Shteyngart, Random House, $28, 9780593595091
7. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
8. The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
9. Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181
10. The View From Lake Como
Adriana Trigiani, Dutton, $29, 9780593183359
11. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
12. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
13. Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson, Bantam, $28, 9780593977057
14. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
15. Flashlight
Susan Choi, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30, 9780374616373
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
2. 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
3. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Scott Anderson, Doubleday, $35, 9780385548076
4. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
5. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
6. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
7. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
8. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288
9. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
10. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
11. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
12. Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run
Peter Ames Carlin, Doubleday, $30, 9780385551533
13. How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
Molly Jong-Fast, Viking, $28, 9780593656471
14. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133
15. Are You Mad at Me?: How to Stop Focusing on What Others Think and Start Living for You
Meg Josephson, Gallery Books, $30, 9781668082461
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
2. One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910
3. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
4. A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Sangu Mandanna, Berkley, $19, 9780593439371
5. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
6. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
7. All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $19, 9780593798898
8. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
9. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
10. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
11. Accomplice to the Villain
Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $19.99, 9781649378545
12. Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth, Melville House, $19.99, 9781685892111
13. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
14. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
15. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $19.99, 9780316556323
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
3. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
5. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
6. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
7. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
8. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
9. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780062993168
10. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
11. A Philosophy of Walking
Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.), Verso, $19.95, 9781804290446
12. In Cold Blood
Truman Capote, Vintage, $19, 9780679745587
13. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro, Vintage, $27, 9780394720241
14. Stay True: A Memoir
Hua Hsu, Vintage, $17, 9780593315200
15. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
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. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
8. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
9. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
10. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
2. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
4. Tiny T. Rex and the First-Day Oopsies
Jonathan Stutzman, Jay Fleck (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $16.99, 9781797233208
5. Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063387843
6. Millie Fleur Saves the Night
Christy Mandin, Orchard Books, $18.99, 9781339023373
7. The Night Before Kindergarten
Natasha Wing, Julie Durrell (Illus.), Grosset & Dunlap, $5.99, 9780448425009
8. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
9. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
10. I Am Glinda (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896884
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
2. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
3. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
4. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
5. The Trouble with Heroes
Kate Messner, Bloomsbury Children's Books, $17.99, 9781547616398
6. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
7. Matilda
Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illus.), Puffin, $8.99, 9780142410370
8. The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Clarion Books, $12.99, 9780156012195
9. The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
10. Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801897
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
2. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
3. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
4. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
5. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316669443
6. The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780759555402
7. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
8. Karen's Ghost: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, #11)
Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339005102
9. CatStronauts: Cosmic Clutter
Drew Brockington, Little, Brown Ink, $9.99, 9780316510486
10. Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy)
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884
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)