Indie Bestsellers
18The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, February 22, 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. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
2. Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622
3. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
4. The Astral Library (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Kate Quinn, William Morrow, $32, 9780063244788
5. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
6. Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723739
7. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
8. This Is Not About Us: Fiction
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593447840
9. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
10. Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
Heather Fawcett, Del Rey, $29, 9780593973257
11. Murder Bimbo
Rebecca Novack, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668214619
12. Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799
13. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
14. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
15. The Elsewhere Express
Samantha Sotto Yambao, Del Rey, $32.99, 9780593725023
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318
2. American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
Jon Meacham, Random House, $38, 9780593597552
3. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411
4. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120
5. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781982181314
6. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
7. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
8. On Morrison
Namwali Serpell, Hogarth, $32, 9780593732915
9. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
10. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
11. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
12. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
13. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
14. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
15. 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
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
2. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
3. Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In)
Emily Brontë, Penguin Books, $18, 9780143139140
4. Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637
5. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
6. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
7. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
8. Dear Debbie
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464249624
9. The Long Game
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644
10. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
11. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
12. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254
13. Game Changer
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534620
14. Heartwood
Amity Gaige, Simon & Schuster, $19, 9781668063613
15. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
3. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431
4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
5. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
Gillian Anderson, Abrams Press, $18, 9781419777301
6. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470
7. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $19, 9781668007983
8. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $22, 9780307279286
9. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
10. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
11. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
12. Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161
13. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
14. Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255
15. Untangling AI: Driving Business Success Through Enterprise Automation and AI Agents
Matt Kesby, Wiley, $40, 9781394394388
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
2. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
3. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
4. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
5. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
6. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
7. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
8. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
9. All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque, Ballantine, $6.99, 9780449213940
10. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. Rumpelstiltskin
Mac Barnett, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Orchard Books, $19.99, 9781338673852
3. For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977
4. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
5. Bath Time for the Crayons
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $9.99, 9780593694879
6. Zohran Walks New York
Millie von Platen, Calkins Creek, $18.99, 9781662681554
7. Mr. Boddington's Studio: NYC ABCs
Mr.Boddington's Studio, Penguin Workshop, $9.99, 9781524792039
8. Baby Otter: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $8.99, 9781797205663
9. If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone
Gideon Sterer, Emily Hughes (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063375222
10. Barnyard Dance!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $7.99, 9781665924955
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Unsettling Salad! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961110
2. A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272
3. The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World
Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price, Cynthia Yuan Cheng (Illus.), Rocky Pond Books, $14.99, 9798217111916
4. The Lions' Run
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250392817
5. Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801897
6. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264
7. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361
8. Frog and Toad Are Friends
Arnold Lobel, Harper, $5.99, 9780064440202
9. Love Me Tomorrow
Emiko Jean, Sarah Barley Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665974370
10. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Investigators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Sew Much Trouble
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250359469
2. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419782695
4. Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001296
5. Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #9)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001265
6. Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, Book 1)
Neal Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781442472433
7. City Spies
James Ponti, Aladdin, $9.99, 9781534414921
8. The Naturals
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780316540629
9. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
10. Europa (City Spies, #7)
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665959988
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)