Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, July 14, 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. Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Random House, $30, 9780593133491
3. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
4. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
5. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
6. A Death in Cornwall
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384200
7. The Cliffs
J. Courtney Sullivan, Knopf, $29, 9780593319154
8. Long Island
Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $28, 9781476785110
9. Swan Song
Elin Hilderbrand, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316258876
10. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441282
11. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper, $26.99, 9780063345164
12. Bear
Julia Phillips, Hogarth, $28, 9780525520436
13. All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $30, 9780593798874
14. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Doubleday, $28, 9780385546874
15. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668045145
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. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663
3. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
4. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593652824
5. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
6. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
Anthony Fauci, M.D., Viking, $36, 9780593657478
7. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
John Ganz, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30, 9780374605445
8. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
Bill Maher, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668051351
9. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
10. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Sebastian Junger, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781668050835
11. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor, Zando-Crooked Media Reads, $28, 9781638931430
12. When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
Julie Satow, Doubleday, $32.5, 9780385548755
13. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764
14. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko, Scribner, $32.50, 9781501183058
15. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
Glynnis MacNicol, Penguin Life, $30, 9780593655757
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
3. This Summer Will Be Different
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638880
4. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
5. Happy Place
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441190
6. Not in Love
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $19, 9780593550427
7. A Novel Love Story
Ashley Poston, Berkley, $19, 9780593640975
8. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933
9. Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431
10. The Housemaid Is Watching
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464221132
11. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Rupert Holmes, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781451648225
12. A Court of Silver Flames
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635577990
13. Wellness
Nathan Hill, Vintage, $19, 9780593469835
14. Summer Romance
Annabel Monaghan, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $19, 9780593714089
15. A Court of Frost and Starlight
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $17, 9781635575620
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
2. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
3. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
5. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $18, 9780593470831
6. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin, $19, 9780593298909
7. This Wild and Precious Life: A Journal
Mary Oliver, Clarkson Potter, $16.99, 9780593580288
8. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
9. You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
Maggie Smith, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $19.99, 9781982185862
10. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
11. Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover, Random House, $18.99, 9780399590528
12. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $22, 9780062802767
13. Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City
Lucy Sante, The Experiment, $19.95, 9781891011726
14. Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
Marisa Meltzer, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $18.99, 9781982190613
15. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World
Matt Kracht, Chronicle, $15.95, 9781797212272
MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129
4. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
5. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
6. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
7. The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka, Bantam Classics, $6.95, 9780553213690
8. Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441104024
9. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
10. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $8.99, 9780062459367
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
4. Pete the Cat Screams for Ice Cream!
James Dean, Kimberly Dean, Harper, $19.99, 9780063095953
5. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718
6. Songs of the Birds
Isabel Otter, Clover Robin (Illus.), Tiger Tales, $14.99, 9781664351097
7. Bluey: The Creek
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593224571
8. The Going to Bed Book
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $6.99, 9780671449025
9. Where's Waldo? The Totally Essential Travel Collection
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $14.99, 9781536224399
10. The Yellow Bus
Loren Long, Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250903136
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Reckless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665955430
2. Powerless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884
3. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781524764203
4. If Only I Had Told Her
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $12.99, 9781728276229
5. Mini Bluey: A Bluey Storybook
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593752814
6. The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593374207
7. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Judy Blume, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781665921312
8. Cloud Puppy
Kelly Leigh Miller, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665932127
9. The One and Only Family
Katherine Applegate, Harper, $19.99, 9780063221123
10. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
2. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
3. Who Is Taylor Swift? (Who Was/Is...?)
Kirsten Anderson, Gregory Copeland (Illus.), Penguin Workshop, $6.99, 9780593754221
4. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $12.99, 9781524714758
5. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
6. The Bad Guys in the Serpent and the Beast (The Bad Guys, #19)
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic, $6.99, 9781339056302
7. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316382007
8. Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, Book 1)
Neal Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781442472433
9. Narwhal's Sweet Tooth (A Narwhal and Jelly Book, #9)
Ben Clanton, Tundra Books, $12.99, 9781774884485
10. Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
Tomi Adeyemi, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $24.99, 9781250171016
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)