Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, January 4, 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. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
3. Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799
4. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
5. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
6. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
7. Dog Show: Poems
Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.), Random House, $20, 9780593979419
8. Mona's Eyes
Thomas Schlesser, Europa Editions, $30, 9798889661115
9. Buckeye
Patrick Ryan, Random House, $30, 9780593595039
10. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
11. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
12. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
13. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
14. Katabasis
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
15. Wreck
Catherine Newman, Harper, $26.99, 9780063453913
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. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
3. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
4. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411
5. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
6. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
7. The Look
Michelle Obama, Crown, $50, 9780593800706
8. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
9. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781
10. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
11. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781982181314
12. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
13. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
14. Notes on Being a Man
Scott Galloway, Simon & Schuster, $29, 9781668084359
15. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore, Liveright, $39.99, 9781631496080
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
2. Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637
3. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
4. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254
5. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
6. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
7. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
8. Game Changer
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534620
9. The Long Game
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644
10. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
11. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
12. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
13. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.), New Directions, $15.95, 9780811237253
14. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
15. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2026
Susan Gail Johnson, Abbeville Press, $12.95, 9780789254771
2. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
3. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $20, 9780735213623
4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
5. Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161
6. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
7. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
8. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
9. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $22, 9780307279286
10. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
11. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Adam Grant, Penguin, $20, 9780593653661
12. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
13. The Best American Essays 2025
Jia Tolentino, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063351592
14. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
15. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
2. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
3. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
4. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
5. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
6. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
7. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $10.99, 9781250773012
8. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
9. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
10. Mythology
Edith Hamilton, Grand Central, $10.99, 9780446574754
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. A Snow Day for Amos McGee
Philip C. Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illus.), Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250324733
2. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
3. If We Were Dogs
Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581721
4. The Humble Pie
Jory John, Pete Oswald (Illus.), HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063469730
5. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
6. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
7. Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.), Random House Studio, $18.99, 9780593810309
8. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
9. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
10. Smooches!
Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780316574686
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. From the World of Percy Jackson: The Court of the Dead: A Nico di Angelo Adventure
Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro, Disney Hyperion, $21.99, 9781368109116
3. War Games
Alan Gratz, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338736106
4. Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362
5. Winging It: A Graphic Novel
Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338818529
6. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
7. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
8. A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272
9. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
10. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419782695
2. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
3. Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #9)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001265
4. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
5. 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
6. The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780759555402
7. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
8. Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001296
9. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339016580
10. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
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)