Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, October 12, 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. Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, $30, 9781594206108
2. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
3. The Impossible Fortune
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653258
4. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
5. Katabasis
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
6. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
7. Alchemised
SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700
8. Twice
Mitch Albom, Harper, $26.99, 9780062406682
9. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
10. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
11. The Academy
Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316567855
12. Will There Ever Be Another You
Patricia Lockwood, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593718551
13. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
14. The Intruder
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $27.99, 9781464260919
15. Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. 107 Days
Kamala Harris, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668211656
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. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
4. Poems & Prayers
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $29, 9781984862105
5. Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Beth Macy, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593656730
6. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781
7. Art Work: On the Creative Life
Sally Mann, Abrams Press, $35, 9781419780714
8. History Matters
David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, $27, 9781668098998
9. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
10. Dear New York
Brandon Stanton, St. Martin's Press, $42, 9781250277589
11. Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City
Mark Ronson, Grand Central Publishing, $29, 9781538741115
12. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
13. Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst
Bill O'Reilly, Josh Hammer, St. Martin's Press, $32, 9781250374042
14. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore, Liveright, $39.99, 9781631496080
15. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Mate
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593952580
2. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
3. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
4. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
5. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840
6. Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324123736
7. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560
8. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
9. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
10. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
11. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
12. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
13. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
14. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
15. The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Penguin, $19, 9780593489291
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781961793682
3. An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2026
Susan Gail Johnson, Abbeville Press, $12.95, 9780789254771
4. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
5. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
Charles Duhigg, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593243923
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
7. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
8. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller, Scribner, $21, 9781982172015
9. Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190
10. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19, 9781250397676
11. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
12. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $22, 9780307279286
13. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
14. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
15. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
Daniel J. Levitin, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324110583
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
4. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
5. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
6. Frankenstein
Mary Shelley, Signet, $6.95, 9780451532244
7. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
8. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
9. The Stand
Stephen King, Vintage, $11.99, 9798217007738
10. Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365286
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
2. Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232782
3. Chicka Chicka Tricka Treat
Julien Chung, Beach Lane Books, $19.99, 9781665954785
4. Richard Scarry's Halloween Cars and Trucks
Richard Scarry, Random House Books for Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593905166
5. Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780544772533
6. Bluey and Bingo's Book of Scary Things
Charlie Moon, Penguin Young Readers, $10.99, 9780593891254
7. It's Halloween, Curious George!
H.A. Rey, Clarion Books, $7.99, 9780063386334
8. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Peanuts)
Charles M. Schulz, Scott Jeralds (Illus.), Simon Spotlight, $7.99, 9781665972208
9. Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.), Random House Studio, $18.99, 9780593810309
10. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. From the World of Percy Jackson: The Court of the Dead: A Nico di Angelo Adventure
Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro, Disney Hyperion, $21.99, 9781368109116
2. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
3. War Games
Alan Gratz, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338736106
4. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
5. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264
6. Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961080
7. Secrets of the Purple Pearl (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science)
Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316555296
8. Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801897
9. Scholastic Book of World Records 2026
Scholastic, $14.99, 9781546182405
10. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Spy School Blackout
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665956512
2. 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
3. Dory Fantasmagory: Center of the Universe
Abby Hanlon, Dial Books, $17.99, 9780593857564
4. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories: Deluxe Collector's Edition (The Awesome Friendly Series)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $17.99, 9781419786020
5. Bones and Berserkers (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #13): 13 True Tales of Terror from American History
Nathan Hale, Abrams Fanfare, $15.99, 9781419773204
6. Witches of Brooklyn: Curse and Reverse: (A Graphic Novel)
Sophie Escabasse, Random House Graphic, $13.99, 9780593813430
7. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
8. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
9. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
10. Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon, Dial Books, $7.99, 9780147510679
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