Indie Bestsellers
18The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, March 15, 2026, 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. Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622
3. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
4. Brawler: Stories
Lauren Groff, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593418420
5. Kin
Tayari Jones, Knopf, $32, 9780525659181
6. Judge Stone
James Patterson, Viola Davis, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316579834
7. More Than Enough
Anna Quindlen, Random House, $29, 9780593734605
8. Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723739
9. Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 9780374619237
10. Once and Again
Rebecca Serle, Atria Books, $27, 9781668025918
11. Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
Heather Fawcett, Del Rey, $29, 9780593973257
12. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
13. This Book Made Me Think of You
Libby Page, Berkley, $30, 9798217186990
14. The Astral Library (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Kate Quinn, William Morrow, $32, 9780063244788
15. Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman, Tor Nightfire, $29.99, 9781250439208
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318
2. A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $32, 9781984881991
3. Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!
Liza Minnelli, Grand Central Publishing, $36, 9781538773666
4. The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Alice Hoffman (Ed.), Scribner, $22, 9781668209028
5. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
6. You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir
Christina Applegate, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316594929
7. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
8. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
9. American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
Jon Meacham, Random House, $38, 9780593597552
10. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781982181314
11. Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
Gavin Newsom, Penguin Press, $30, 9781984881939
12. In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir
Tom Junod, Doubleday, $32, 9780375400391
13. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
14. 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
15. Judy Blume: A Life
Mark Oppenheimer, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $35, 9780593714447
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
2. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
3. Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637
4. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
5. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254
6. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
7. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
8. Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In)
Emily Brontë, Penguin Books, $18, 9780143139140
9. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
10. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
11. Game Changer
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534620
12. The Long Game
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644
13. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
14. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.), New Directions, $15.95, 9780811237253
15. Heartwood
Amity Gaige, Simon & Schuster, $19, 9781668063613
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
2. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21, 9780593689004
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. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $22, 9780385348768
5. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
6. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
7. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470
8. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
9. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431
10. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $16.95, 9798888904510
11. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
12. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
Elizabeth Beller, Gallery Books, $19.99, 9781982178970
13. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Oregon State University Press, $18.95, 9780870714993
14. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
15. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
3. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
4. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
6. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
7. The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608
8. Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $6.99, 9780743477116
9. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
10. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Better Than a Touchdown
Jalen Hurts, Nneka Myers (Illus.), Flamingo Books, $19.99, 9798217040308
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. If We Were Dogs
Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581721
4. Goodnight, Bruce
Ryan T. Higgins, Disney Hyperion, $19.99, 9781368108737
5. Barnyard Dance!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $7.99, 9781665924955
6. Bartleby
Matt Phelan, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18.99, 9780374393557
7. Because of a Shoe
Julie Fogliano, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593707401
8. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illus.), HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780060245863
9. Little Blue Truck's Springtime
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780544938090
10. How to Catch a Leprechaun
Adam Wallace, Andy Elkerton (Illus.), Sourcebooks Wonderland, $10.99, 9781492632917
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Lions' Run
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250392817
2. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
3. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
4. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: Color Edition
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338687859
5. Unsettling Salad! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961110
6. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268
7. Winnie-the-Pooh: 100th Anniversary Edition
A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illus.), Aladdin, $10.99, 9781665984126
8. Nothing Like the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665947145
9. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
10. Five Survive
Holly Jackson, Ember, $14.99, 9780593374191
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. The Hybrid Prince (Wings of Fire, Book 16)
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic Press, $19.99, 9781546129547
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419782695
3. Big Nate: Code Red!
Lincoln Peirce, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, 9798881602420
4. The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780759555402
5. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
6. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion, $10.99, 9781368051477
7. Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon, Dial Books, $7.99, 9780147510679
8. InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, First Second, $12.99, 9781250219954
9. Investigators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Sew Much Trouble
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250359469
10. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
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)