Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, August 30, 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 Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812
2. The Disappearers
Marlon James, Riverhead Books, $32.00, 9780593717202
3. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593804216
4. Whistler
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30.00, 9780063511637
5. The Knave and the Moon (The Stonewater Kingdom #2)
Rachel Gillig, Orbit, $30.00, 9780316601849
6. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28.00, 9780593798430
7. Etna
Paul Yoon, Scribner, $28.00, 9781668020821
8. Big Little Truths
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $34.00, 9780593798638
9. Land
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593320648
10. Under Story
Chloe Benjamin, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $32.00, 9780593545218
11. Agrippa
Robert Harris, Doubleday, $32.00, 9780385552387
12. Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy #3)
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $30.00, 9780385550505
13. The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746
14. The Birthing Tree
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $28.00, 9781646223695
15. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30.00, 9780593820285
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Land and Its People: Essays
David Sedaris, Little, Brown and Company, $30.00, 9780316264839
2. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385548533
3. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30.00, 9780593733318
4. American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
Kai Bird, Susan Goldmark, Scribner, $32.00, 9781668031575
5. Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster, $34.00, 9781668067246
6. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
Jill Lepore, Liveright, $29.99, 9781324098423
7. Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About: A Memoir
Isabel Klee, William Morrow, $28.00, 9780063451070
8. Guinness World Records 2027
Guinness World Records, Guinness World Records, $29.95, 9781806500253
9. Famesick: A Memoir
Lena Dunham, Random House, $32.00, 9780593129326
10. The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men
Jon Ronson, Riverhead Books, $32.00, 9781594634208
11. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35.00, 9781324094647
12. This Is Me: A Reckoning
Hayden Panettiere, Grand Central Publishing, $30.00, 9781538773420
13. Biological War: A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen, Dutton, $33.00, 9798217046034
14. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
15. The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living
Dara Horn, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, $30.00, 9781668090169
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781668236512
2. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20.00, 9780593820254
3. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $18.99, 9781250828019
4. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Holt Paperbacks, $18.99, 9781250899552
5. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250
6. Red Rising
Pierce Brown, Del Rey, $18.00, 9780345539809
7. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $19.99, 9780316556323
8. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22.00, 9798217299461
9. East of Eden
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $25.00, 9780142004234
10. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19.00, 9780593418925
11. James
Percival Everett, Vintage, $20.00, 9780593686867
12. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781982112837
13. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
14. A Time of Witches
Madeline Martin, Hanover Square Press, $19.99, 9781335002679
15. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2)
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $21.00, 9780593820278
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Emily Wilson, Liveright, $19.99, 9781324099406
2. Salt
Mark Kurlansky, Penguin, $19.00, 9780142001615
3. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226
4. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21.00, 9780593689004
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984898456
6. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060959470
7. A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $20.00, 9780593854297
8. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22.00, 9781571313560
9. Meditations: A New Translation
Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays (Trans.), Modern Library, $11.00, 9780812968255
10. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24.00, 9780143129257
11. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14.00, 9780804190114
12. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $23.00, 9780307279286
13. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
M.D. van der Kolk, Bessel, Penguin Books, $19.00, 9780143127741
14. The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late
Cory Doctorow, MCD, $18.00, 9780374621568
15. Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
Mary Roach, W. W. Norton & Company, $18.99, 9781324134268
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451526342
3. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
5. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $13.00, 9780399501487
6. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $10.99, 9780440180296
7. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
8. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
9. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780063221086
10. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780062073488
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
2. Little Blue Truck Lost and Found
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063436121
3. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
4. Who's There, Little Pumpkin? (Who's There?)
Teresa Bellón, Boxer Books, $9.99, 9781454799207
5. Don't Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673
6. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
7. Bath Time!
Sandra Boynton, Sandra Boynton (Illus.), Boynton Bookworks, $9.99, 9781665925204
8. The Duck Can't Sleep
E.B. White, Melissa Sweet (Illus.), Quill Tree Books, $19.99, 9780063304291
9. Spells to Cast on Your Parents
Pete Holmes, Doubleday Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9798217119035
10. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780399230035
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2: From the Creator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (The Awesome Friendly Kid Series)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419788109
2. The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
3. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665921275
4. Unsettling Salad! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961110
5. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
6. Mexikid Dreams: A Graphic Memoir
Pedro Martín, Pedro Martín (Illus.), Dial Books, $14.99, 9798217002498
7. Spooky Dig! Excavation Kit
Mudpuppy, Mudpuppy, $6.99, 9780735390119
8. A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272
9. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324
10. The Gilded Blade (The Grandest Game #3)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780316593083
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
2. The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams
4. InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second
5. Step Into Reading, Step 2
Gertrude Chandler Warner, Liz Brizzi (Illus.), Step into Reading
6. Warriors Graphic Novels
Erin Hunter, Gibson Twist, Sammy Savos (Illus.), HarperAlley
7. Big Nate
Lincoln Peirce, Harper
8. I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Brian Churilla (Illus.), Scholastic
9. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic
10. Little Golden Book
Christy Webster, Ernie Kwait (Illus.), Golden/Disney
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)