Indie Bestsellers
The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, April 21, 2024, 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 Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
2. Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370
3. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
4. The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250884251
5. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946
6. The Hunter
Tana French, Viking, $32, 9780593493434
7. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House, $28, 9780593597033
8. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
9. Expiration Dates
Rebecca Serle, Atria Books, $27, 9781982166823
10. The Husbands
Holly Gramazio, Doubleday, $29, 9780385550611
11. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Doubleday, $28, 9780385546874
12. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619
13. Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30, 9780063327528
14. Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange, Knopf, $29, 9780593318256
15. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $32, 9780802162175
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663
2. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $22, 9780593714416
3. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
4. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie, Random House, $28, 9780593730249
5. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
6. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764
7. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28.99, 9781668007976
8. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
9. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Fareed Zakaria, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9780393239232
10. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
James Patterson, Matt Eversmann, Little, Brown and Company, $28, 9780316567534
11. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib, Random House, $32, 9780593448793
12. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
Caleb Carr, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316503600
13. The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
RuPaul, Dey Street Books, $29.99, 9780063263901
14. The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
Kevin Baker, Knopf, $35, 9780375421839
15. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781982185824
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
2. The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.), Tor, $18.99, 9780765382030
3. Happy Place
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441190
4. Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431
5. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
6. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780441013593
7. A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575583
8. Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson, Penguin, $18, 9780593490716
9. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316556323
10. The Secret Book of Flora Lea
Patti Callahan Henry, Atria, $17.99, 9781668011843
11. Weyward
Emilia Hart, St. Martin's Griffin, $19, 9781250842725
12. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
13. Horse
Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $19, 9780399562976
14. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463
15. Never Lie
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781728296166
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
2. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
3. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
4. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
5. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $18, 9780593470831
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
7. Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $20, 9780593239933
8. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
9. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Michelle Obama, Crown, $19.99, 9780593237489
10. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
11. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $19, 9780143129257
12. A Book of Days
Patti Smith, Random House, $20, 9780593730386
13. Cinema Speculation
Quentin Tarantino, Harper Perennial, $21, 9780063112575
14. The Northeast Native Plant Primer: 235 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden
Uli Lorimer, Native Plant Trust, Timber Press, $24.99, 9781643260464
15. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jon Meacham, Random House, $25, 9780553393989
MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
3. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
4. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
5. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
6. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296
7. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
8. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062836977
9. Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441104024
10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. Bubbly Beautiful Kitty-Corn
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Harry N. Abrams, $19.99, 9781419768774
4. Dragon's First Taco
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593533178
5. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
6. Bluey: Butterflies
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593750889
7. Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten
Michelle Knudsen, Kevin Hawkes (Illus.), Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536219111
8. Corduroy
Don Freeman, Viking Children's Books, $7.99, 9780451470799
9. Jamberry
Bruce Degen, HarperFestival, $9.99, 9780694006519
10. Baby Puppy: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797212845
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593374207
2. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
3. If Only I Had Told Her
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $12.99, 9781728276229
4. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, Harper, $10.99, 9780064400558
5. Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World
Yuval Noah Harari, Ricard Zaplana Ruiz (Illus.), Bright Matter Books, $14.99, 9780593711552
6. Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801897
7. Olivetti
Allie Millington, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250326935
8. Powerless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884
9. Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation
James W. Loewen, Nate Powell, The New Press, $27.99, 9781620977033
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
2. Who Is Taylor Swift? (Who Was/Is...?)
Kirsten Anderson, Gregory Copeland (Illus.), Penguin Workshop, $6.99, 9780593754221
3. Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers (Cat Kid Comic Club, #5)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338896398
4. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
5. Claudia and the Bad Joke: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix, #15)
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338835502
6. Evil Spy School the Graphic Novel
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665931939
7. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
8. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $12.99, 9781524714758
9. Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, Book 1)
Neal Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781442472433
10. InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: From Badger to Worse
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250852397
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)