Indie Bestsellers
18The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, February 1, 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. Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622
2. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
3. Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723739
4. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
5. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
6. My Husband's Wife
Alice Feeney, Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, $28.99, 9781250337818
7. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
8. Departure(s)
Julian Barnes, Knopf, $27, 9780593804506
9. Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799
10. Buckeye
Patrick Ryan, Random House, $30, 9780593595039
11. The Things We Leave Unfinished (SIGNED)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Amara, $32.99, 9781682816318
12. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
13. The First Time I Saw Him
Laura Dave, Scribner, $29, 9781668002964
14. Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323
15. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
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. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318
3. Football
Chuck Klosterman, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593490648
4. Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose
Jennifer Breheny Wallace, Portfolio, $30, 9780593850596
5. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
6. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
7. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
8. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
9. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
10. Where We Keep the Light: Stories from a Life of Service
Josh Shapiro, Harper, $30, 9780063463905
11. Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
Heather Ann Thompson, Pantheon, $35, 9780593702093
12. Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind
Jason Zengerle, Crooked Media Reads, $28, 9781638932932
13. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781982181314
14. History Matters
David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, $27, 9781668098998
15. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637
2. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
3. Dear Debbie
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464249624
4. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
5. The Long Game
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644
6. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
7. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
8. Game Changer
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534620
9. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
10. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Emily Brontë, Ruben Toledo (Illus.), Penguin Classics, $18, 9780143105435
11. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
12. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
13. People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806758
14. Heartwood
Amity Gaige, Simon & Schuster, $19, 9781668063613
15. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.), New Directions, $15.95, 9780811237253
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
2. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
4. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470
5. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
6. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
7. An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2026
Susan Gail Johnson, Abbeville Press, $12.95, 9780789254771
8. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $19, 9781668007983
9. Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
Rebecca Romney, Scribner, $21, 9781982190255
10. Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
Laura Lynne Jackson, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $22, 9780399591617
11. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $18, 9781878424310
12. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
Gillian Anderson, Harry N. Abrams, $18, 9781419777301
13. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593230077
14. Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
Ian Frazier, Picador, $22, 9781250390592
15. Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
3. Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë, Bantam Classics, $6.95, 9780553212587
4. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
5. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
6. Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365286
7. The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
8. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
9. Frankenstein
Mary Shelley, Signet, $6.95, 9780451532244
10. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
4. Smooches!
Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780316574686
5. The Humble Pie
Jory John, Pete Oswald (Illus.), HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063469730
6. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
7. Knight Owl
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $17.99, 9780316310628
8. Jamberry
Bruce Degen, HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780694006519
9. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
10. The Wildest Thing
Emily Winfield Martin, Random House Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9798217023981
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. 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
2. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
3. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268
4. What the River Knows
Isabel Ibañez, Wednesday Books, $15, 9781250408624
5. Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961080
6. The United States Constitution: What It Says, What It Means: A Hip Pocket Guide
Justicelearning.org, Oxford University Press, $5.99, 9780195304435
7. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544336261
8. Dragonborn
Struan Murray, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9798217113217
9. All the Blues in the Sky
Renée Watson, Bloomsbury Children's Books, $17.99, 9781547605897
10. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $10.99, 9781984896391
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419782695
3. Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #9)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001265
4. Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon, Dial Books, $7.99, 9780147510679
5. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741032
6. Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9781442421837
7. The Lost Heir (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #2)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9780545942201
8. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
9. Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy)
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665954891
10. The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
Holly Black, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780316310314
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)