Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, November 1, 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. A Court of Splintered Harmony: The Valkyrie Cycle, Movement I (A Court of Thorns and Roses #6)
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $32.00, 9781639739134
2. American Hagwon
Min Jin Lee, Cardinal, $36.00, 9781538752036
3. Miss Wolcott's Ghost (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #21)
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30.00, 9781250412607
4. Peck & Peck
Bonnie Garmus, Scribner, $30.00, 9781668251065
5. The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812
6. Partita
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.00, 9780063577541
7. The Disappearers
Marlon James, Riverhead Books, $32.00, 9780593717202
8. The Witch (Deluxe Edition)
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $29.99, 9781464249648
9. The Pirate Queen
Ariel Lawhon, Doubleday, $32.00, 9780385550345
10. Public Access Afterworld
Jane Schoenbrun, Hogarth, $33.00, 9780593978382
11. Exit Party
Emily St.John Mandel, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593321461
12. Hollywood, Ending
John Green, Dutton Books, $32.00, 9780525426073
13. The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746
14. Threshing Day (Wing and Claw Collection) (The Empyrean)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $24.99, 9781682818084
15. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593804216
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Simply Ina: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $40.00, 9780593234174
2. Abandoning a Cat: A Personal Story
Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Transl.), Knopf, $26.00, 9798217208692
3. The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $34.00, 9780316603782
4. Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State
Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324131656
5. The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
Nathaniel Philbrick, Viking, $38.00, 9780525562238
6. Vibe: The Secrets of Strong Connections in a Lonely World
Adam Grant, Viking, $33.00, 9798217059706
7. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30.00, 9780593733318
8. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385548533
9. Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up
David Byrne, Penguin Press, $36.00, 9780593655276
10. One Helluva Ride
Michael Douglas, Grand Central Publishing, $35.00, 9781538782224
11. The Land and Its People: Essays
David Sedaris, Little, Brown and Company, $30.00, 9780316264839
12. Fictional Selves: A Memoir
Kyle MacLachlan, Crown, $34.00, 9798217086320
13. Ottolenghi Simple Too: A Cookbook
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $45.00, 9781984860088
14. In My Own Time: A Memoir
Christopher Lloyd, Grand Central Publishing, $32.50, 9781538776544
15. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
Jill Lepore, Liveright, $29.99, 9781324098423
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. East of Eden
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $25.00, 9780142004234
4. Fruit Fly
Josh Silver, Crooked Lane Books, $19.99, 9798892426374
5. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $18.99, 9781250828019
6. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2)
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $21.00, 9780593820278
7. Stitched
Eli McCann, Torrey House Press, $18.95, 9798890920461
8. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $21.00, 9781250178640
9. The Best American Short Stories 2026
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nicole A. Lamy, Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063399853
10. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
11. May We Feed the King
Rebecca Perry, Transit Books, $18.95, 9798893380620
12. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19.00, 9781635575569
13. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
14. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18.00, 9780593312070
15. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Vintage Contemporaries)
Anne Carson, Vintage, $20.00, 9780375701290
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226
2. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $21.99, 9781324147435
3. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18.00, 9781400078431
4. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
5. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24.00, 9780143129257
6. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $23.00, 9780307279286
7. A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $20.00, 9780593854297
8. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060959470
9. The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
Yossi Yovel, St. Martin's Griffin, $20.00, 9781250378460
10. John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
Ian Leslie, Celadon Books, $22.00, 9781250869517
11. Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (Nobel Prize Winner) (Princeton Classics #129)
Anne Carson, Princeton University Press, $17.95, 9780691247939
12. Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor
Christine Kuehn, Celadon Books, $18.99, 9781250344489
13. Salt
Mark Kurlansky, Penguin, $19.00, 9780142001615
14. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Oregon State University Press, $18.95, 9780870714993
15. The Book of Questions: Revised and Updated
Gregory Stock, Workman, $10.99, 9780761177319
MASS MARKET
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
2. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $10.99, 9780440180296
3. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451526342
4. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935
5. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
6. The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $9.99, 9780451530608
7. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
8. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780062073488
9. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
10. The Diva Runs Out of Thyme (A Domestic Diva Mystery #1)
Krista Davis, Berkley, $7.99, 9780425224267
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
4. Gruffalo Granny
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $19.99, 9798217238736
5. Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780544772533
6. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
7. The Pumpkin Thief (The Leaf Thief)
Alice Hemming, Nicola Slater (Illus.), Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $18.99, 9781464268076
8. Sounds of Nature: A Guide to North American Bird and Animal Calls
Patricia Hegarty, Elinor Duffy (Illus.), Tiger Tales, $14.99, 9781664352407
9. Is This a Plum? A Peek-Through Picture Book
Dan Ojari, Finn Ojari, Random House Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9798217223138
10. Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm Saves Halloween! (Lowly Worm Saves the Holidays)
Richard Scarry, Random House Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9798217116911
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Trust Fall
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9798347100217
2. You're No Better (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Andrew Joseph White, Peachtree Teen, $21.99, 9781682638224
3. This Is a Door
Daniel Nayeri, Stonefruit Studio, $19.99, 9781464246029
4. Licorice
Kara LaReau, Kelly Murphy (Illus.), Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781546185949
5. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361
6. The Sixth Faction Deluxe Limited Edition (A New Divergent Series #1)
Veronica Roth, HarperCollins, $25.99, 9780063462540
7. The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo, Timothy Basil Ering (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9780763680893
8. The Trouble with Heroes
Kate Messner, Bloomsbury Children's Books, $10.99, 9781547619429
9. The Bug Bandits: The Museum Is Her Home. Her Mission Is to Save It.
Jenni L. Walsh, Zonderkidz, $9.99, 9780310181293
10. Building 903
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063515109
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Fight or Flight (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #21)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419782701
2. Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9781546171607
3. Baby-sitters on Board!: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-sitters Club Super Special #1)
Raina Telgemeier (Illus.), Graphix, $16.99, 9781546174363
4. Wildwood (The Wildwood Chronicles, Book I)
Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $11.99, 9780062024701
5. 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
6. Spy School Goes East
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665986717
7. Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001296
8. Twilight (The Twilight Saga #1)
Stephenie Meyer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316327336
9. The Neverfear (Impossible Creatures #3)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809945
10. The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $6.99, 9780763678883
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)