Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, March 12, 2023. 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. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29, 9780385547345
2. I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai, Viking, $28, 9780593490143
3. Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson, Pamela Dorman Books, $28, 9780593490693
4. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28, 9780593321201
5. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922
6. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
Margaret Atwood, Doubleday, $30, 9780385549073
7. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Rupert Holmes, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28, 9781451648218
8. Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593420317
9. Someone Else's Shoes
Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books, $29, 9781984879295
10. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
11. Horse
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780399562969
12. Stone Blind
Natalie Haynes, Harper, $30, 9780063258396
13. Mad Honey
Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Ballantine, $29.99, 9781984818386
14. Weyward
Emilia Hart, St. Martin's Press, $27.99, 9781250280800
15. Foster
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802160140
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
Katherine May, Riverhead Books, $26, 9780593329993
2. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781982185824
3. Spare
Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, Random House, $36, 9780593593806
4. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Jenny Odell, Random House, $28.99, 9780593242704
5. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
6. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
7. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
Bernie Sanders, John Nichols, Crown, $28, 9780593238714
8. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657743
9. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong, Random House, $30, 9780593133231
10. A Book of Days
Patti Smith, Random House, $28.99, 9780593448540
11. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Malcolm Harris, Little, Brown, $36, 9780316592031
12. Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
Tracy Kidder, Random House, $30, 9781984801432
13. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Scribner, $32.50, 9781982117351
14. How Far Do You Want to Go?: Lessons from a Common-Sense Billionaire
John Catsimatidis, Matt Holt, $30, 9781637743430
15. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
Lynne Olson, Random House, $32, 9780525509479
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $17, 9781524798642
2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501161933
3. The Candy House
Jennifer Egan, Scribner, $17.99, 9781476716770
4. It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781501110368
5. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
6. The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley, Morrow, $18.99, 9780063003064
7. Never Never
Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher, Canary Street Press, $17.99, 9781335004888
8. The Maid
Nita Prose, Ballantine, $18, 9780593356173
9. It Starts with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $17.99, 9781668001226
10. The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $17.99, 9781982156138
11. One Italian Summer
Rebecca Serle, Atria Books, $17.99, 9781982166809
12. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
13. The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray, Berkley, $17, 9780593101544
14. Verity
Colleen Hoover, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538724736
15. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
2. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
3. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
4. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $20, 9780593230275
5. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Meghan O'Rourke, Riverhead Books, $18, 9780399573309
6. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $16.99, 9780060936228
7. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
Fintan O'Toole, Liveright, $20, 9781324092872
8. What to Expect When You're Expecting
Heidi Murkoff, Workman, $17.95, 9780761187486
9. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
10. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Johann Hari, Crown, $18, 9780593138533
11. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $17, 9781400078431
12. Hotel Splendide
Ludwig Bemelmans, Pushkin Press, $15.95, 9781782277910
13. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Dr. Anna Lembke, Dutton, $18, 9781524746742
14. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Anchor, $18, 9780307279286
15. The Nineties: A Book
Chuck Klosterman, Penguin, $18, 9780735217966
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2. Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $7.99, 9780553293357
3. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $8.99, 9780062073488
4. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593438367
5. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
6. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
7. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $11, 9780399501487
8. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
9. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
10. Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett, Harper, $9.99, 9780062225757
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Hot Dog
Doug Salati, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593308431
2. Bluey: Easter
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593658383
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
4. How to Catch a Leprechaun
Adam Wallace, Andy Elkerton (Illus.), Sourcebooks Wonderland, $10.99, 9781492632917
5. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
6. The Great Big Easter Egg Hunt (Peter Rabbit)
Beatrix Potter, Warne, $8.99, 9780241544709
7. The Sour Grape
Jory John, Pete Oswald (Illus.), Harper, $19.99, 9780063045415
8. Peekaboo Rex!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $7.99, 9781665928403
9. Knight Owl
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $17.99, 9780316310628
10. Happy Easter, Little Pookie
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $6.99, 9781665928380
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Squished: A Graphic Novel
Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338568936
2. Finally Seen
Kelly Yang, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781534488335
3. Freewater
Amina Luqman-Dawson, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9780316056618
4. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780062991324
5. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $12.99, 9781524714758
6. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, Harper, $8.99, 9780064400558
7. Five Survive
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $19.99, 9780593374160
8. Attack of the Black Rectangles
A.S. King, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338680522
9. Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Monique Gray Smith, Nicole Neidhardt (Illus.), Zest Books, $17.99, 9781728458991
10. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Judy Blume, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9781534482425
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
2. Mary Anne's Bad Luck Mystery: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix, #13)
Ann M. Martin, Cynthia Yuan Cheng (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338616101
3. Bad Kitty: Supercat (Graphic Novel)
Nick Bruel, Roaring Brook Press, $13.99, 9781250749987
4. InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $10.99, 9781250852564
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780590353427
6. Cat Kid Comic Club: Collaborations (Cat Kid Comic Club, #4)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338846621
7. Big Nate: Nailed It!
Lincoln Peirce, Andrews McMeel, $12.99, 9781524879235
8. City of the Dead (City Spies, #4)
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665911573
9. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741032
10. Karen's Birthday: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sisters Graphix, #6)
Ann M. Martin, Katy Farina (Illus.), Graphix, $11.99, 9781338762587
Other Regional Bestseller Lists:
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Midwest Independent Booksellers Association (MIBA)
Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA)
New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA)