Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, November 9, 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. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
2. The Black Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30, 9781250328175
3. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
4. Queen Esther
John Irving, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781501189449
5. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
7. The Widow
John Grisham, Doubleday, $32, 9780385548984
8. Twice
Mitch Albom, Harper, $26.99, 9780062406682
9. Wreck
Catherine Newman, Harper, $26.99, 9780063453913
10. Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, $30, 9781594206108
11. Katabasis
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
12. The Impossible Fortune
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653258
13. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
14. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
15. A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar, Knopf, $29, 9780593804872
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
2. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
3. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120
4. Notes on Being a Man
Scott Galloway, Simon & Schuster, $29, 9781668084359
5. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
6. Dead and Alive: Essays
Zadie Smith, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593834688
7. Guinness World Records 2026
Guinness World Records, $29.95, 9781913484750
8. The Uncool: A Memoir
Cameron Crowe, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668059432
9. The Look
Michelle Obama, Crown, $50, 9780593800706
10. Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department
Carol Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593831373
11. Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Margaret Atwood, Doubleday, $35, 9780385547512
12. We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir
Sir Anthony Hopkins, S&S/Summit Books, $35, 9781668075500
13. Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit
Brené Brown, Random House, $32, 9781984855749
14. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
15. 107 Days
Kamala Harris, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668211656
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
3. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
4. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560
5. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
6. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
7. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
8. The Best American Short Stories 2025
Celeste Ng, Nicole A. Lamy (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063399808
9. Mate
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593952580
10. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
11. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
12. Good Spirits
B. K. Borison, Avon, $18.99, 9780063430402
13. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
14. The Drowned
John Banville, Hanover Square Press, $18.99, 9781335471994
15. Slow Horses (Deluxe Edition)
Mick Herron, Soho Crime, $19.95, 9781641292979
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161
2. The Best American Essays 2025
Jia Tolentino, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063351592
3. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
4. The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781961793682
5. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
6. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19, 9781250397676
7. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593230077
8. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
9. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books, $21.99, 9780316581509
10. An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2026
Susan Gail Johnson, Abbeville Press, $12.95, 9780789254771
11. Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
Laura Lynne Jackson, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $22, 9780399591617
12. Ingrained: The Making of a Craftsman
Callum Robinson, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063350847
13. Wreck This Journal
Keri Smith, Perigee, $15, 9780399161940
14. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
15. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
MASS MARKET
1. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
2. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
3. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
4. Outlander
Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $9.99, 9780553393699
5. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
6. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
7. The Long Walk
Stephen King, Pocket, $11.99, 9781668052013
8. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
9. Mythology
Edith Hamilton, Grand Central, $10.99, 9780446574754
10. It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis, Signet, $10.99, 9780451465641
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. The Humble Pie
Jory John, Pete Oswald (Illus.), HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063469730
2. If We Were Dogs
Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581721
3. Corduroy Gives Thanks
Don Freeman, John Joseph (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780593694152
4. Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.), Random House Studio, $18.99, 9780593810309
5. Baby Turkey: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232799
6. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
7. Knight Owl's Little Christmas
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $8.99, 9780316587501
8. The Mitten
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780399231094
9. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
10. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Winging It: A Graphic Novel
Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338818529
2. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268
3. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
4. 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
5. A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272
6. 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
7. Scholastic Book of World Records 2026
Scholastic, $14.99, 9781546182405
8. The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9780593374238
9. Sweet & Salty!: King Arthur Baking Company's Cookbook for Young Bakers
King Arthur Baking Company, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665930666
10. The House Saphir
Marissa Meyer, Feiwel & Friends, $19.99, 9781250320957
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419782695
2. The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, Volume 3)
Philip Pullman, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $29.99, 9780593306635
3. Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001296
4. Spy School Blackout
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665956512
5. The First Cat in Space and the Baby Pirate's Revenge: A Graphic Novel
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley, $16.99, 9780063415508
6. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
7. We Fell Apart: A We Were Liars Novel
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $22.99, 9780593899168
8. 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
9. Dory Fantasmagory: Center of the Universe
Abby Hanlon, Dial Books, $17.99, 9780593857564
10. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
Other Regional Bestseller Lists:
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Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association (GLIBA)
Midwest Independent Booksellers Association (MIBA)
Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA)
New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA)