Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, September 13, 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 Pirate Queen
Ariel Lawhon, Doubleday, $32.00, 9780385550345
2. The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812
3. The Disappearers
Marlon James, Riverhead Books, $32.00, 9780593717202
4. The Witches of Cambridge
Alice Hoffman, Scribner, $29.00, 9781668074640
5. Taipei Story (Deluxe Limited Edition)
R.F. Kuang, William Morrow, $32.00, 9780063473744
6. Whistler
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30.00, 9780063511637
7. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593804216
8. Switzy
Emma Cline, Random House, $32.00, 9780593595244
9. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28.00, 9780593798430
10. John of John
Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802167194
11. Big Little Truths
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $34.00, 9780593798638
12. The Knave and the Moon (The Stonewater Kingdom #2)
Rachel Gillig, Orbit, $30.00, 9780316601849
13. Land
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593320648
14. Under Story
Chloe Benjamin, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $32.00, 9780593545218
15. The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385548533
2. American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
Kai Bird, Susan Goldmark, Scribner, $32.00, 9781668031575
3. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30.00, 9780593733318
4. How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time
Sarah Longwell, St. Martin's Press, $29.00, 9781250464170
5. The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict
Priya Parker, Riverhead Books, $30.00, 9780593420225
6. The Land and Its People: Essays
David Sedaris, Little, Brown and Company, $30.00, 9780316264839
7. Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster, $34.00, 9781668067246
8. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
Jill Lepore, Liveright, $29.99, 9781324098423
9. Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft: A Memoir on Writing
Harlan Coben, Grand Central Publishing, $32.50, 9781538784624
10. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20.00, 9781668072240
11. Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About: A Memoir
Isabel Klee, William Morrow, $28.00, 9780063451070
12. Guinness World Records 2027
Guinness World Records, Guinness World Records, $29.95, 9781806500253
13. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9780593652886
14. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28.00, 9780593804148
15. In My Darkest Hour: A Memoir
Dave Mustaine, Da Capo, $30.00, 9780306837432
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. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250
4. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $18.99, 9781250828019
5. Fruit Fly
Josh Silver, Crooked Lane Books, $19.99, 9798892426374
6. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Holt Paperbacks, $18.99, 9781250899552
7. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $21.00, 9780307744555
8. East of Eden
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $25.00, 9780142004234
9. A Time of Witches
Madeline Martin, Hanover Square Press, $19.99, 9781335002679
10. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19.00, 9780593418925
11. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
12. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
13. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22.00, 9798217299461
14. Dolly All the Time
Annabel Monaghan, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $20.00, 9780593853979
15. Wreck
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $17.99, 9780063453920
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Emily Wilson, Liveright, $19.99, 9781324099406
2. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226
3. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22.00, 9781571313560
5. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060959470
6. Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
Stephen Greenblatt, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324134213
7. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $23.00, 9780307279286
8. 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
9. Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow, Picador, $20.00, 9781250448194
10. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21.00, 9780307742490
11. Salt
Mark Kurlansky, Penguin, $19.00, 9780142001615
12. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous (Submitted by Anonymous)
Gillian Anderson, Abrams Press, $18.00, 9781419777301
13. Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover, Random House, $20.00, 9780399590528
14. A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $20.00, 9780593854297
15. Upstream: Selected Essays
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $18.00, 9780143130086
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935
2. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
3. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $13.00, 9780399501487
4. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
5. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
6. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553577129
7. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $10.99, 9780440180296
8. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451526342
9. Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $6.99, 9780743477116
10. Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $9.99, 9781451669411
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. The Skeleton and the Cat
Brandon James Scott, HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063455887
4. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
5. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?: Stamped Edges Special Edition
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $10.99, 9781250445506
6. Wonderful Halloween
Emily Winfield Martin, Emily Winfield Martin (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9798217233175
7. Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780544772533
8. If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone
Gideon Sterer, Emily Hughes (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063375222
9. Zohran Walks New York
Millie von Platen, Calkins Creek, $19.99, 9781662681554
10. Little Blue Truck Lost and Found
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063436121
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. The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338762488
5. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544336261
6. Our Strange Duet
Erin A. Craig, Delacorte Press, $24.99, 9798217124183
7. The Summer of Broken Rules
K.L. Walther, Sourcebooks Fire, $14.99, 9781728210292
8. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
9. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
10. Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokemon)
Scholastic, Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019
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, Amulet
4. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling
5. I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Alvaro Sarraseca (Illus.), Scholastic
6. Little Golden Book
Christy Webster, Vivien Wu (Illus.), Golden/Disney
7. Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix
8. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic
9. Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
10. Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion
Other Regional Bestseller Lists:
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Midwest Independent Booksellers Association (MIBA)
Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA)
New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA)