Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, November 16, 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 Strength of the Few
James Islington, S&S/Saga Press, $34, 9781982141233
3. The Black Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30, 9781250328175
4. The Widow
John Grisham, Doubleday, $32, 9780385548984
5. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
7. Brigands & Breadknives
Travis Baldree, Tor Books, $28.99, 9781250334886
8. Twice
Mitch Albom, Harper, $26.99, 9780062406682
9. Wreck
Catherine Newman, Harper, $26.99, 9780063453913
10. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
11. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
12. Queen Esther
John Irving, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781501189449
13. Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799
14. Alchemised
SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700
15. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
2. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
3. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
4. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411
5. The Look
Michelle Obama, Crown, $50, 9780593800706
6. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
7. History Matters
David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, $27, 9781668098998
8. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120
9. The Uncool: A Memoir
Cameron Crowe, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668059432
10. Dead and Alive: Essays
Zadie Smith, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593834688
11. 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
12. Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department
Carol Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593831373
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. How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will
John Kennedy, Broadside Books, $29.99, 9780063428164
15. Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Margaret Atwood, Doubleday, $35, 9780385547512
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
2. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
3. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
4. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
5. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
6. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
7. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
8. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
9. How About Now: Poems
Kate Baer, Harper Perennial, $18, 9780063306080
10. The Surrogate Mother
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464227301
11. The Will of the Many
James Islington, S&S/Saga Press, $22.99, 9781982141189
12. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560
13. Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte, Penguin Classics, $9, 9780141441146
14. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
15. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781961793682
2. An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2026
Susan Gail Johnson, Abbeville Press, $12.95, 9780789254771
3. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
4. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
5. Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161
6. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $22, 9780307279286
7. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
8. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
9. The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising
Elizabeth R. Hyman, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780063355019
10. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593230077
11. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848
12. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
13. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
14. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $20, 9780593139158
15. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
MASS MARKET
1. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
3. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849
4. Frankenstein
Mary Shelley, Signet, $6.95, 9780451532244
5. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
7. Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $10.99, 9780316769495
8. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
9. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
10. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. The Humble Pie
Jory John, Pete Oswald (Illus.), HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063469730
3. Baby Turkey: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232799
4. Our Little Adventure at Christmas
Tabitha Paige, Paige Tate & Co, $14.99, 9781963183542
5. A Dance with Santa Claus
Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316593694
6. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
7. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
8. Construction Site: A Thankful Night
Sherri Duskey Rinker, Helen Morgan (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $12.99, 9781797226729
9. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
10. Barnyard Dance!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $7.99, 9781665924955
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268
2. Frog and Toad Are Friends
Arnold Lobel, Harper, $5.99, 9780064440202
3. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
4. The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illus.), Yearling, $8.99, 9780394820378
5. Winging It: A Graphic Novel
Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338818529
6. The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo, Timothy Basil Ering (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9780763680893
7. The Trouble with Heroes
Kate Messner, Bloomsbury Children's Books, $17.99, 9781547616398
8. War Games
Alan Gratz, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338736106
9. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: Color Edition
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338687859
10. The Sherlock Society
James Ponti, Aladdin, $8.99, 9781665932547
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419782695
2. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
3. The First Cat in Space and the Baby Pirate's Revenge: A Graphic Novel
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley, $16.99, 9780063415508
4. The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, Volume 3)
Philip Pullman, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $29.99, 9780593306635
5. Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001296
6. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419741852
8. Bones and Berserkers (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #13): 13 True Tales of Terror from American History
Nathan Hale, Abrams Fanfare, $15.99, 9781419773204
9. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
10. We Fell Apart: A We Were Liars Novel
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $22.99, 9780593899168
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)