Indie Bestsellers
22The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, June 29, 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. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
2. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
3. The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
4. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
5. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
6. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
7. Don't Let Him In
Lisa Jewell, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781668033876
8. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
9. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
10. Fox
Joyce Carol Oates, Hogarth, $32, 9780593978085
11. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
12. So Far Gone
Jess Walter, Harper, $30, 9780062868145
13. Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181
14. With a Vengeance
Riley Sager, Dutton, $30, 9780593472408
15. Never Flinch
Stephen King, Scribner, $32, 9781668089330
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
2. 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
3. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
4. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
5. Mark Twain
Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $45, 9780525561729
6. How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle (Principles)
Ray Dalio, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781501124068
7. How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
Molly Jong-Fast, Viking, $28, 9780593656471
8. We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle, The Dial Press, $34, 9780593977644
9. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
10. Notes to John
Joan Didion, Knopf, $32, 9780593803677
11. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
12. Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
Nate Bargatze, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538768464
13. It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground
David Litt, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668035351
14. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
15. The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook: Seasonal Recipes for Everyday Luxury and Elevated Entertaining
Meredith Hayden, Ten Speed Press, $35, 9780593835951
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
3. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
4. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
5. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
6. The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668034354
7. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, Penguin, $18, 9780525562047
8. The Tenant
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464227318
9. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
10. Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $21.99, 9781649377579
11. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
12. Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $19, 9780063327535
13. Beach Read
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806734
14. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
15. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
3. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Rick Atkinson, Holt Paperbacks, $23.99, 9781250231321
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
5. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848
6. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
7. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
8. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
9. A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797232751
10. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
11. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
12. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
13. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
14. The Screwtape Letters
C.S. Lewis, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780060652937
15. Goodbye to All That (Revised Edition): Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
Sari Botton (Ed.), Seal Press, $19.99, 9781541675681
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
3. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
4. The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka, Bantam Classics, $6.95, 9780553213690
5. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
6. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
7. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
8. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
9. Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $6.99, 9780743482745
10. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. Will the Pigeon Graduate?
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454960430
4. Knight Owl
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $17.99, 9780316310628
5. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
6. Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063387843
7. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
8. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illus.), HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780060245863
9. Dragon's First Taco
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593533178
10. Odder: An Otter's Story
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $18.99, 9781250323590
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
2. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
3. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
4. Outsider Kids: A Parachute Kids Graphic Novel
Betty C. Tang, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338832716
5. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
6. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264
7. The Lost Library
Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250838834
8. The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542
9. Nothing Like the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665947138
10. The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
2. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
3. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316669443
4. Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy)
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884
5. Dog Man Unleashed
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741049
6. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
7. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #2
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203907
8. Mallory and the Trouble with Twins: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338835618
9. Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $14.99, 9780545586177
10. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339016580
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)