Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, July 5, 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. Whistler
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30.00, 9780063511637
2. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593804216
3. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28.00, 9780593798430
4. The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812
5. Land
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593320648
6. The Shampoo Effect
Jenny Jackson, Pamela Dorman Books, $30.00, 9798217059959
7. John of John
Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802167194
8. Villa Coco
Andrew Sean Greer, Doubleday, $30.00, 9780385551977
9. It Could Have Been Her
Lisa Jewell, Atria Books, $29.00, 9781668033906
10. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802165176
11. Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It
Brooke Averick, Crown, $28.00, 9798217088263
12. The Midnight Train
Matt Haig, Viking, $30.00, 9780593833377
13. The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746
14. Transcription
Ben Lerner, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25.00, 9780374618599
15. Contrapposto
Dave Eggers, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593803509
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. Famesick: A Memoir
Lena Dunham, Random House, $32.00, 9780593129326
5. Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster, $34.00, 9781668067246
6. A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9781984881991
7. The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader
Melissa Murray, 37 Ink, $30.00, 9781668221938
8. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, W. W. Norton & Company, $35.00, 9781324006848
9. Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About: A Memoir
Isabel Klee, William Morrow, $28.00, 9780063451070
10. Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Simon Six, $26.00, 9781668249970
11. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20.00, 9781982181314
12. This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
Craig Fehrman, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35.00, 9781982174248
13. America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Crown, $31.00, 9780593239803
14. Cancel Me If You Can
Dave Portnoy, Gallery Books, $32.99, 9781668222027
15. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35.00, 9781324094647
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. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593158739
4. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22.00, 9798217299461
5. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19.00, 9780593418925
6. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
7. The Someday Garden
Ashley Poston, Berkley, $20.00, 9780593952757
8. Taiwan Travelogue
Shuang-zi Yang, Graywolf Press, $18.00, 9781644453155
9. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250
10. The Deal
Elle Kennedy, Bloom Books, $18.99, 9781775293934
11. Angel Down
Daniel Kraus, Atria Books, $18.00, 9781668068519
12. Dolly All the Time
Annabel Monaghan, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $20.00, 9780593853979
13. Every Summer After
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19.00, 9780593438534
14. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $20.00, 9780593685778
15. The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593873465
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. A Marriage at Sea
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $20.00, 9780593854297
2. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $22.00, 9780385348768
3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21.00, 9780307742490
4. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $22.00, 9780307279286
5. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22.00, 9781571313560
7. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060959470
8. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $16.95, 9798888904510
9. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18.00, 9781400078431
10. Mark Twain
Ron Chernow, Penguin Books, $25.00, 9780525561743
11. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr, Picador, $23.00, 9781250251091
12. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
Jonn Elledge, The Experiment, $18.95, 9798893030822
13. How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]: A Newly Expanded, Lively, and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Thomas C. Foster, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780063307742
14. The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial IntelligenceŅBefore It's Too Late
Cory Doctorow, MCD, $18.00, 9780374621568
15. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451526342
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
4. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553577129
5. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
6. All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque, Ballantine, $6.99, 9780449213940
7. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
8. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849
9. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
10. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
3. It's My Bird-Day!
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454999621
4. Tiny T. Rex Tries Soccer
Jonathan Stutzman, Jay Fleck (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $12.99, 9781797233857
5. Barnyard Dance!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $7.99, 9781665924955
6. Where's Waldo? The Totally Essential Travel Collection
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $14.99, 9781536224399
7. See Inside New York City
Jonathan Melmoth, Victor Bueren (Illus.), Victor Bueren (Illus.), Usborne, $15.99, 9781805078661
8. Where's Waldo?
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210651
9. If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone
Gideon Sterer, Emily Hughes (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063375222
10. The Going to Bed Book
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $6.99, 9780671449025
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338762488
2. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
3. Wombat Waiting
Katherine Applegate, Storytide, $19.99, 9780063221178
4. The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
5. Odder: The Novel
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250423429
6. Trucks on Trucks
Sorche Fairbank, Nik Henderson (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780062842107
7. Matilda
Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illus.), Puffin, $8.99, 9780142410370
8. Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokemon)
Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019
9. The Mystery of the Stolen World Cup Trophy
Angela Cervantes, Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks, $9.99, 9781250419279
10. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Manga
Dav Pilkey, Motojiro (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546151210
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. InvestiGators: Weather or Not
John Patrick Green, First Second, $12.99, 9781250357915
2. Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy, Part One of Three
Erin Hunter, Gibson Twist, Sammy Savos (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063450882
3. Dawn on the Coast: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #19)
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546135548
4. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
5. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9781984896391
6. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
7. Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon, Dial Books, $7.99, 9780147510679
8. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion, $10.99, 9781368051477
9. The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780759555402
10. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
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)