Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, July 19, 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. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593804216
2. Whistler
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30.00, 9780063511637
3. The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812
4. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28.00, 9780593798430
5. Land
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593320648
6. The Shampoo Effect
Jenny Jackson, Pamela Dorman Books, $30.00, 9798217059959
7. Country People
Daniel Mason, Random House, $30.00, 9798217197453
8. Love You More
Emily Giffin, Ballantine Books, $32.00, 9780593600320
9. Ransom
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32.00, 9780063384224
10. Contrapposto
Dave Eggers, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593803509
11. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802165176
12. The Midnight Train
Matt Haig, Viking, $30.00, 9780593833377
13. The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746
14. Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt (Indies Introduce)
Ben Reeves, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, $28.00, 9781668216361
15. Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30.00, 9780593820261
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster, $34.00, 9781668067246
2. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385548533
3. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30.00, 9780593733318
4. The Land and Its People: Essays
David Sedaris, Little, Brown and Company, $30.00, 9780316264839
5. Famesick: A Memoir
Lena Dunham, Random House, $32.00, 9780593129326
6. The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World
Brian Tyler Cohen, Harper, $28.99, 9780063495104
7. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20.00, 9781982181314
8. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, W. W. Norton & Company, $35.00, 9781324006848
9. The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Alice Hoffman (Ed.), Scribner, $22.00, 9781668209028
10. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
11. Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children
Mac Barnett, Little, Brown and Company, $20.00, 9780316601122
12. Lifeguard: A Love Story
Janet Fash, Clio Chang, Simon & Schuster, $28.00, 9781668206614
13. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30.00, 9781101875124
14. A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9781984881991
15. Cancel Me If You Can
Dave Portnoy, Gallery Books, $32.99, 9781668222027
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781668236512
2. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250
3. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22.00, 9798217299461
4. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20.00, 9780593820254
5. Dolly All the Time
Annabel Monaghan, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $20.00, 9780593853979
6. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593158739
7. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19.00, 9780593418925
8. Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth, Melville House, $19.99, 9781685892111
9. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
10. Red Rising
Pierce Brown, Del Rey, $18.00, 9780345539809
11. Angel Down
Daniel Kraus, Atria Books, $18.00, 9781668068519
12. Every Summer After
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19.00, 9780593438534
13. Taiwan Travelogue
Shuang-zi Yang, Graywolf Press, $18.00, 9781644453155
14. The Deal
Elle Kennedy, Bloom Books, $18.99, 9781775293934
15. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones, S&S/Saga Press, $20.00, 9781668075098
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $20.00, 9780593854297
2. Communion: The Female Search for Love
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060938291
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22.00, 9781571313560
4. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984898456
6. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
M.D. van der Kolk, Bessel, Penguin Books, $19.00, 9780143127741
7. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah, One World, $20.00, 9780399588198
8. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14.00, 9780804190114
9. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18.00, 9781400078431
10. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $22.00, 9780385348768
11. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
12. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
13. Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yiyun Li, Picador, $18.00, 9781250437976
14. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World
Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $18.95, 9781771643771
15. The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin, Vintage, $16.00, 9780679744726
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935
2. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12.00, 9780399501487
3. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345514400
5. Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553277531
6. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451526342
7. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
8. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
9. A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry, Vintage, $8.95, 9780679755333
10. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. Where's Waldo?
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210651
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
4. Construction Site: Firefight!
Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781797226590
5. It's My Bird-Day!
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454999621
6. Jamberry
Bruce Degen, HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780694006519
7. The Skeleton and the Cat
Brandon James Scott, HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063455887
8. If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone
Gideon Sterer, Emily Hughes (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063375222
9. The Wise Pickle
Sarah Howden, Sabina Hahn (Illus.), Tundra Books, $18.99, 9781774886984
10. The Greatest Bedtime Story Ever
Jessie Sima, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665974523
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Gilded Blade (The Grandest Game #3)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780316593083
2. Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokemon)
Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019
3. The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338762488
4. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
5. Wombat Waiting
Katherine Applegate, Storytide, $19.99, 9780063221178
6. Spy School Secret Service the Graphic Novel
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665956635
7. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Manga
Dav Pilkey, Motojiro (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546151210
8. The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel
Gareth Hinds, Candlewick, $19.99, 9780763642686
9. The Trouble with Heroes
Kate Messner, Bloomsbury Children's Books, $10.99, 9781547619429
10. The Baby-sitters Club Fan Edition: Baby-sitter Summer
Ann M. Martin, Becky Albertalli, Coe Booth, Scholastic Inc., $14.99, 9781546171379
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Heartstopper #6: A Graphic Novel
Alice Oseman, Graphix, $19.99, 9781546102441
2. Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy, Part One of Three
Erin Hunter, Gibson Twist, Sammy Savos (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063450882
3. Dawn on the Coast: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #19)
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546135548
4. I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 (I Survived Graphic Novel #14) (I Survived Graphix #14)
Lauren Tarshis, Peter Wartman (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546137757
5. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
6. Karen's Surprise: A Graphic Novel (Baby-sitters Little Sister #12)
Ann M. Martin, Shauna J. Grant (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339005133
7. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9781984896391
8. InvestiGators: Weather or Not
John Patrick Green, First Second, $12.99, 9781250357915
9. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #3
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203938
10. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion, $10.99, 9781368051477
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)