Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, December 7, 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. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
3. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
4. Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799
5. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
6. Buckeye
Patrick Ryan, Random House, $30, 9780593595039
7. Queen Esther
John Irving, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781501189449
8. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
9. Gone Before Goodbye
Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon, Grand Central Publishing, $32, 9781538774700
10. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
11. Twice
Mitch Albom, Harper, $26.99, 9780062406682
12. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Rabih Alameddine, Grove Press, $28, 9780802166470
13. The Black Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30, 9781250328175
14. House of Day, House of Night
Olga Tokarczuk, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593716380
15. Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, $30, 9781594206108
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. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
3. 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
4. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411
5. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
6. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
7. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
8. Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run
Paul McCartney, Liveright, $45, 9781324096306
9. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781982181314
10. Guinness World Records 2026
Guinness World Records, $29.95, 9781913484750
11. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781
12. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: National Book Award
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
13. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
14. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
15. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore, Liveright, $39.99, 9781631496080
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
2. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
3. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
4. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
5. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
6. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
7. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
8. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
9. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
10. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
11. Isola
Allegra Goodman, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $19, 9780593730102
12. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
13. This Is Happiness
Niall Williams, Bloomsbury Publishing, $18.99, 9781635576313
14. The Best American Short Stories 2025
Celeste Ng, Nicole A. Lamy (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063399808
15. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.), New Directions, $15.95, 9780811237253
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. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593230077
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
5. Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
Elyse Graham, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063280854
6. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
7. A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797232751
8. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
9. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
10. Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161
11. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
12. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
13. Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
Laura Lynne Jackson, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $22, 9780399591617
14. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
15. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Morgan Housel, Harriman House, $19.99, 9780857197689
MASS MARKET
1. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
3. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
4. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
5. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
6. The Long Walk
Stephen King, Pocket, $11.99, 9781668052013
7. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
8. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $10.99, 9781250773012
9. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
10. Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $6.99, 9780743477123
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. The Christmas Sweater
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593533918
2. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
3. The Mitten
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780399231094
4. Steam Train, Dream Train: Next Stop, Christmas!
Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781797227030
5. Knight Owl's Little Christmas
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $8.99, 9780316587501
6. The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg, HMH Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780544580145
7. Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm Saves Christmas!
Richard Scarry, Random House Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9798217029310
8. Knight Owl
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $17.99, 9780316310628
9. A Snow Day for Amos McGee
Philip C. Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illus.), Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250324733
10. The Animals' Santa
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781984816801
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
2. Dragonborn
Struan Murray, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9798217113217
3. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
4. Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362
5. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234
6. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268
7. Winging It: A Graphic Novel
Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338818529
8. The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum, Puffin Books, $19.99, 9780241790014
9. Scholastic Book of World Records 2026
Scholastic, $14.99, 9781546182405
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition)
Stephen Chbosky, Simon Pulse, $15.99, 9781665982412
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419782695
3. The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, Volume 3)
Philip Pullman, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $29.99, 9780593306635
4. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
5. Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001296
6. Crowntide (The Lightlark Saga Book, 4)
Alex Aster, Amulet Books, $24.99, 9781419785719
7. Spy School Blackout
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665956512
8. Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean, #1)
Annie Barrows, Chronicle, $6.99, 9780811849098
9. The First Cat in Space and the Baby Pirate's Revenge: A Graphic Novel
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley, $16.99, 9780063415508
10. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
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)