Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, November 2, 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 Black Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30, 9781250328175
2. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
3. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
4. The Widow
John Grisham, Doubleday, $32, 9780385548984
5. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
6. Twice
Mitch Albom, Harper, $26.99, 9780062406682
7. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
8. Wreck
Catherine Newman, Harper, $26.99, 9780063453913
9. Tom's Crossing
Mark Z. Danielewski, Pantheon, $40, 9781524747718
10. Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, $30, 9781594206108
11. Buckeye
Patrick Ryan, Random House, $30, 9780593595039
12. The Impossible Fortune
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653258
13. Katabasis
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
14. The Everlasting
Alix E. Harrow, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250799081
15. Alchemised
SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700
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. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120
3. Dead and Alive: Essays
Zadie Smith, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593834688
4. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
5. The Uncool: A Memoir
Cameron Crowe, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668059432
6. 107 Days
Kamala Harris, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668211656
7. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
8. 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
9. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
10. Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging
Angela Buchdahl, Pamela Dorman Books, $32, 9780593490174
11. To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower
Bret Baier, Mariner Books, $32.99, 9780063360754
12. How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will
John Kennedy, Broadside Books, $29.99, 9780063428164
13. The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports
Nicholas Thompson, Random House, $30, 9780593244128
14. Art Work: On the Creative Life
Sally Mann, Abrams Press, $35, 9781419780714
15. History Matters
David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, $27, 9781668098998
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
2. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
3. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
4. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
5. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
6. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560
7. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
8. Mate
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593952580
9. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
10. Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324123736
11. The Best American Short Stories 2025
Celeste Ng, Nicole A. Lamy (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063399808
12. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
13. Bunny
Mona Awad, Penguin, $17, 9780525559757
14. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
15. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
2. Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161
3. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books, $21.99, 9780316581509
4. An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2026
Susan Gail Johnson, Abbeville Press, $12.95, 9780789254771
5. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
6. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
7. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431
8. The Best American Essays 2025
Jia Tolentino, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063351592
9. Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780060652920
10. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025
Susan Orlean, Jaime Green (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063414211
11. The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781961793682
12. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
13. A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $23.99, 9780062397348
14. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
15. The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America
David A. Graham, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $16, 9798217153725
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
3. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
4. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849
5. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
6. Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $6.99, 9780743477123
7. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $10.99, 9781250773012
8. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
9. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
10. Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $10.99, 9780316769495
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. Baby Turkey: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232799
4. Hansel and Gretel
Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.), HarperCollins, $26.99, 9780062644695
5. Hey! Look at You!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $9.99, 9781665953160
6. If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone
Gideon Sterer, Emily Hughes (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063375222
7. A Snow Day for Amos McGee
Philip C. Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illus.), Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250324733
8. The Pigeon Needs a Bath Book!
Mo Willems, Hyperion Books for Children, $8.99, 9781368046329
9. Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232782
10. Barnyard Dance!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $7.99, 9781665924955
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961080
2. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
3. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
4. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268
5. Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362
6. War Games
Alan Gratz, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338736106
7. Max, a Little Axolotl #1 (An Original Graphic Novel)
Joey Spiotto, Graphix, $12.99, 9781546169451
8. Guinness World Records Soccer Edition 2026
Guinness World Records, $15.99, 9781913484774
9. Wildlife Rescue: How to Save an Otter
Kate Messner, Bloomsbury Children's Books, $8.99, 9781547616428
10. Ghosts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801903
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419782695
2. The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, Volume 3)
Philip Pullman, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $29.99, 9780593306635
3. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #3
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203938
4. Jessi Ramsey, Pet-Sitter: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #18) (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338835656
5. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
6. Spy School Blackout
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665956512
7. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories: Deluxe Collector's Edition (The Awesome Friendly Series)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $17.99, 9781419786020
8. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
9. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877
10. InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, First Second, $12.99, 9781250219954
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)