Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, October 26, 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 Widow
John Grisham, Doubleday, $32, 9780385548984
2. Twice
Mitch Albom, Harper, $26.99, 9780062406682
3. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
4. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
5. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
6. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
7. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
8. Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, $30, 9781594206108
9. The Impossible Fortune
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653258
10. The Academy
Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316567855
11. Alchemised
SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700
12. Buckeye
Patrick Ryan, Random House, $30, 9780593595039
13. Katabasis
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
14. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
15. The Proving Ground
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316563826
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. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120
3. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
4. Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
Joyce Vance, Dutton, $28, 9798217178117
5. 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
6. Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
John Fugelsang, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668066898
7. To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower
Bret Baier, Mariner Books, $32.99, 9780063360754
8. Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Beth Macy, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593656730
9. Finding My Way: A Memoir
Malala Yousafzai, Atria Books, $30, 9781668054277
10. Poems & Prayers
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $29, 9781984862105
11. Dear New York
Brandon Stanton, St. Martin's Press, $42, 9781250277589
12. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
13. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
14. Writing Creativity and Soul
Sue Monk Kidd, Knopf, $29, 9780593804643
15. History Matters
David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, $27, 9781668098998
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
2. Mate
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593952580
3. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
4. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
5. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
6. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
7. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
8. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560
9. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
10. Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324123736
11. The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk, Riverhead Books, $20, 9780593712955
12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
13. The Secret History
Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702
14. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna, Berkley, $19, 9780593439357
15. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161
3. The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781961793682
4. The Best American Essays 2025
Jia Tolentino, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063351592
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
6. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593230077
7. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Rick Atkinson, Holt Paperbacks, $23.99, 9781250231321
8. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226
9. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
10. A Philosophy of Walking
Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.), Verso, $19.95, 9781804290446
11. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
Charles Duhigg, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593243923
12. Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
Laura Lynne Jackson, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $22, 9780399591617
13. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $20, 9780593139158
14. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
15. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books, $21.99, 9780316581509
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
3. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849
4. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
5. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
6. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
7. Rise to Rebellion
Jeff Shaara, Ballantine Books, $8.99, 9780345452061
8. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
9. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780063221086
10. The Paradiso
Dante Alighieri, Signet, $7.95, 9780451531414
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
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. Chicka Chicka Tricka Treat
Julien Chung, Beach Lane Books, $19.99, 9781665954785
5. Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780544772533
6. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
7. Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.), Random House Studio, $18.99, 9780593810309
8. If I Built a Town
Chris Van Dusen, Rocky Pond Books, $19.99, 9780593324981
9. Bluey and Bingo's Book of Scary Things
Charlie Moon, Penguin Young Readers, $10.99, 9780593891254
10. Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232782
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
2. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268
3. 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
4. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361
5. Dragonborn
Struan Murray, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9798217113217
6. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
7. 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
8. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
9. Winging It: A Graphic Novel
Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338818529
10. War Games
Alan Gratz, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338736106
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419782695
2. The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, Volume 3)
Philip Pullman, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $29.99, 9780593306635
3. InvestiGators: Case Files
John Patrick Green, Steve Behling, Chris Fenoglio (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250223227
4. 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
5. Spy School Blackout
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665956512
6. Dory Fantasmagory: Center of the Universe
Abby Hanlon, Dial Books, $17.99, 9780593857564
7. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #3
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203938
8. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
9. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories: Deluxe Collector's Edition (The Awesome Friendly Series)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $17.99, 9781419786020
10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419741852
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)