Indie Bestsellers
18The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, February 15, 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. Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723739
5. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
6. This Is Not About Us: Fiction
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593447840
7. Operation Bounce House
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $32, 9780593820308
8. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
9. Dog Show: Poems
Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.), Random House, $20, 9780593979419
10. Keeper of Lost Children
Sadeqa Johnson, 37 Ink, $30, 9781668069912
11. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
12. The Things We Leave Unfinished (SIGNED)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Amara, $32.99, 9781682816318
13. My Husband's Wife
Alice Feeney, Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, $28.99, 9781250337818
14. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
15. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318
2. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120
3. 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
4. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
5. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
6. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
7. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
8. Football
Chuck Klosterman, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593490648
9. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
10. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
11. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781982181314
12. The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog
Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837991013
13. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
14. History Matters
David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, $27, 9781668098998
15. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
2. Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637
3. Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In)
Emily Brontë, Penguin Books, $18, 9780143139140
4. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
5. Game Changer
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534620
6. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
7. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254
8. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
9. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
10. The Long Game
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644
11. Dear Debbie
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464249624
12. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
13. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
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. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
4. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
5. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
6. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
7. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
8. Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
Imani Perry, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062977410
9. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226
10. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $22, 9780307279286
11. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $20, 9780735213623
12. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431
13. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
14. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
Gillian Anderson, Abrams Press, $18, 9781419777301
15. Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover, Random House, $20, 9780399590528
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
2. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
3. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
4. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
5. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780063221086
6. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
7. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
8. Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë, Bantam Classics, $6.95, 9780553212587
9. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
10. Frankenstein
Mary Shelley, Signet, $6.95, 9780451532244
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Smooches!
Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780316574686
2. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
3. Love from Clifford the Big Red Dog
Norman Bridwell, Scholastic, $9.99, 9781546175933
4. Little Blue Truck's Valentine
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780358272441
5. I'm So Happy You're Here: A Celebration of Library Joy
Mychal Threets, Lorraine Nam (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9798217026029
6. Your Truck
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536248227
7. If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone
Gideon Sterer, Emily Hughes (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063375222
8. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
9. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
10. Rumpelstiltskin
Mac Barnett, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Orchard Books, $19.99, 9781338673852
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. Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362
3. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
4. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
5. Winnie-the-Pooh: 100th Anniversary Edition
A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illus.), Aladdin, $10.99, 9781665984126
6. The Lions' Run
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250392817
7. Holes
Louis Sachar, Laurel Leaf, $8.99, 9780440228592
8. The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story
Daniel Nayeri, Levine Querido, $18.99, 9781646145669
9. Oh Brother: (A Graphic Memoir)
Georgina Chadderton, Random House Graphic, $14.99, 9780593488263
10. Number the Stars
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $9.99, 9780547577098
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419782695
3. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
4. Europa (City Spies, #7)
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665959988
5. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $10.99, 9781984896391
6. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
7. Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #9)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001265
8. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
9. A Waffle Lot of Love! (A Narwhal and Jelly Book, #10)
Ben Clanton, Tundra Books, $12.99, 9781774884539
10. City Spies
James Ponti, Aladdin, $9.99, 9781534414921
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)