For the week ending September 25th, 2022, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers Browse All See all items Fairy Tale Stephen King Current price: $32.50 King's spellbinding new novel about a 17-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 3 New Release Lucy by the Sea: A Novel Elizabeth Strout Current price: $28.00 Strout's poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown--and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart. An October 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 New Release The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery Richard Osman Current price: $27.00 The third adventure of the Thursday Murder Club is full of the cleverness, intrigue, and irresistible charm that readers have come to expect from Richard Osman's bestselling series. An October 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 The Marriage Portrait: A novel Maggie O'Farrell Current price: $28.00 O'Farrell's new novel is an unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court. A September 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 3 Carrie Soto Is Back: A Novel Taylor Jenkins Reid Current price: $28.00 Champion tennis player Carrie Soto comes out of retirement for one more grand slam. A September 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 4 Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Series #3) Tamsyn Muir Current price: $28.99 Muir's bestselling Locked Tomb series continues with Nona the Ninth. A September 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 2 New Release Less Is Lost (The Arthur Less Books #2) Andrew Sean Greer Current price: $29.00 In the follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America. An October 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Staff Pick Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel Bonnie Garmus Current price: $29.00 Funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist. An April 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 25 Horse: A Novel Geraldine Brooks Current price: $28.00 Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism. A June 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 15 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel Gabrielle Zevin Current price: $28.00 The exhilarating new novel by the bestselling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is the #1 Indie Next Pick for July 2022. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 12 Lessons: A novel Ian McEwan Current price: $30.00 McEwan's outstanding new novel is an epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 2 New Release Dreamland: A Novel Nicholas Sparks Current price: $28.99 A poignant love story about risking everything for a dream--and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 The Midnight Library: A Novel Matt Haig Current price: $26.00 Haig's latest is a dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: * All Good People Here: A Novel Ashley Flowers Current price: $28.00 A journalist uncovers her hometown's dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 6 Bliss Montage: Stories Ling Ma Current price: $26.00 In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions. A September 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 2 Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers Browse All See all items I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy Current price: $27.99 A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 7 New Release The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 Peter Baker, Susan Glasser Current price: $32.00 An inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, and a history of the full Trump presidency that contains dozens of exclusive scoops and stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the absurd to the deadly serious. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Randall Munroe Current price: $30.00 The bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 2 Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships Nina Totenberg Current price: $27.99 Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes,struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly 50 years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 2 New Release Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization Neil deGrasse Tyson Current price: $28.99 Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time--war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race--in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Solito: A Memoir Javier Zamora Current price: $28.00 A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this moving, page-turning memoir. A September 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 3 Crying in H Mart: A Memoir Michelle Zauner Current price: $26.95 From the indie rock star of Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. A May 2021 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: * The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II Buzz Bissinger Current price: $32.50 An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of Friday Night Lights. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 2 Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber Andy Borowitz Current price: $28.99 Profiles in Ignorance aims to make us both laugh and cry: laugh at the idiotic antics of public figures, and cry at the cataclysms the ignorance have caused. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 2 Dinner in One: Exceptional & Easy One-Pan Meals: A Cookbook Melissa Clark Current price: $29.99 100 all new, super simple, and incredibly delicious one-pot, one-pan, one-sheet—one-everything!—recipes. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 3 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones James Clear Current price: $27.00 James Clear reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 39 The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture Gabor Maté, MD Current price: $30.00 A groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 2 Happy-Go-Lucky David Sedaris Current price: $29.00 David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestseller Calypso. Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: 17 New Release Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America Pekka Hämäläinen Current price: $40.00 Necessary reading for anyone who cares about America's past, present, and future, Indigenous Continent restores Native peoples to their rightful place at the very fulcrum of American history. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World Karen Armstrong Current price: $28.00 From one of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world, a profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature--and an urgent call to reclaim that power in everyday life. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 2 Trade Paperback Fiction Bestsellers Browse All See all items The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel Taylor Jenkins Reid Current price: $17.00 Reid's novel is a mesmerizing journey through the splendor of old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: * Verity Colleen Hoover Current price: $16.99 A sensational psychological thriller by the bestselling author of It Ends with Us. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 33 It Ends with Us: A Novel Colleen Hoover Current price: $16.99 In Hoover's honest, evocative, and tender novel, a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance can't stop thinking about her first love. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 44 Where the Crawdads Sing (Movie Tie-In) Delia Owens Current price: $18.00 Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: * The Sentence: A Novel Louise Erdrich Current price: $18.00 This novel begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional, and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 3 Circe Madeline Miller Current price: $16.99 The masterful follow-up to The Song of Achilles is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: * Book Lovers Emily Henry Current price: $17.00 An insightful, delightful new novel by the bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. The #1 Indie Next Pick for May 2022. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 21 The Song of Achilles: A Novel Madeline Miller Current price: $17.99 Miller's monumental debut novel is an action-packed adventure and epic love story that brilliantly re-imagines Homer's enduring masterwork, The Iliad. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: * Ugly Love: A Novel Colleen Hoover Current price: $16.99 Hoover's novel is a heart-wrenching love story that proves attraction at first sight can be messy. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 17 The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel (A Thursday Murder Club Mystery #1) Richard Osman Current price: $17.00 In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 34 The Personal Librarian Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray Current price: $17.00 The remarkable story of J. P. Morgan's personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation. Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: 12 A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J. Maas Current price: $18.00 From bestselling author Sarah J. Maas comes a seductive, breathtaking book that blends romance, adventure, and faerie lore into an unforgettable read. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 3 Love on the Brain Ali Hazelwood Current price: $17.00 From the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis--with explosive results. The #1 Indie Next Pick for September 2022. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 5 The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides Current price: $17.99 A gripping psychological thriller about a woman's act of violence against her husband--and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: 32 November 9: A Novel Colleen Hoover Current price: $16.99 An unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: 9 Trade Paperback Nonfiction Bestsellers Browse All See all items Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer Current price: $20.00 Drawing on her life as an Indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: * The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. Current price: $19.00 van der Kolk transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: * All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1) bell hooks Current price: $16.99 All About Love is a revelation about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 47 Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law Mary Roach Current price: $16.95 Roach's irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 4 Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest Suzanne Simard Current price: $17.00 Simard brings us into the intimate world of trees to illuminate fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 14 The 2023 Old Farmer's Almanac Old Farmer's Almanac Current price: $8.95 The annual almanac of weather, astrology, calendars, gardening tips, home remedies, and more all presented in the inimitably useful and humorous way it has done since 1792. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 3 How to Focus (Mindfulness Essentials #9) Thich Nhat Hanh Current price: $9.95 Written with characteristic simplicity and kindness, these wise meditations teach us that by practicing mindfulness in daily life, we are cultivating the power of concentration and fostering the conditions that bring insight, liberating us from misperceptions and misunderstanding. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 10 Gender Queer: A Memoir Maia Kobabe Current price: $19.99 Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 3 The Book of Delights: Essays Ross Gay Current price: $17.99 Gay's spirited collection of essays reminds us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders. Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: 2 Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover Current price: $18.99 Westover's unforgettable memoir about growing up, being kept out of school, leaving her survivalist family, and going on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 33 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills Current price: $12.95 A practical guide to personal freedom, outlining a way of life rooted in traditional Toltec beliefs. Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: * Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know Malcolm Gladwell Current price: $18.99 Gladwell offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 51 Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Neil Price Current price: $19.99 Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, and their material world. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures Merlin Sheldrake Current price: $18.00 In Entangled Life, biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: * The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War Malcolm Gladwell Current price: $18.99 Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. 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Fairy Tale Stephen King Current price: $32.50 King's spellbinding new novel about a 17-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 3
New Release Lucy by the Sea: A Novel Elizabeth Strout Current price: $28.00 Strout's poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown--and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart. An October 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
New Release The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery Richard Osman Current price: $27.00 The third adventure of the Thursday Murder Club is full of the cleverness, intrigue, and irresistible charm that readers have come to expect from Richard Osman's bestselling series. An October 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
The Marriage Portrait: A novel Maggie O'Farrell Current price: $28.00 O'Farrell's new novel is an unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court. A September 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 3
Carrie Soto Is Back: A Novel Taylor Jenkins Reid Current price: $28.00 Champion tennis player Carrie Soto comes out of retirement for one more grand slam. A September 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 4
Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Series #3) Tamsyn Muir Current price: $28.99 Muir's bestselling Locked Tomb series continues with Nona the Ninth. A September 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 2
New Release Less Is Lost (The Arthur Less Books #2) Andrew Sean Greer Current price: $29.00 In the follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America. An October 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
Staff Pick Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel Bonnie Garmus Current price: $29.00 Funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist. An April 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 25
Horse: A Novel Geraldine Brooks Current price: $28.00 Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism. A June 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 15
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel Gabrielle Zevin Current price: $28.00 The exhilarating new novel by the bestselling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is the #1 Indie Next Pick for July 2022. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 12
Lessons: A novel Ian McEwan Current price: $30.00 McEwan's outstanding new novel is an epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 2
New Release Dreamland: A Novel Nicholas Sparks Current price: $28.99 A poignant love story about risking everything for a dream--and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
The Midnight Library: A Novel Matt Haig Current price: $26.00 Haig's latest is a dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: *
All Good People Here: A Novel Ashley Flowers Current price: $28.00 A journalist uncovers her hometown's dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 6
Bliss Montage: Stories Ling Ma Current price: $26.00 In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions. A September 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 2
I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy Current price: $27.99 A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 7
New Release The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 Peter Baker, Susan Glasser Current price: $32.00 An inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, and a history of the full Trump presidency that contains dozens of exclusive scoops and stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the absurd to the deadly serious. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Randall Munroe Current price: $30.00 The bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 2
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships Nina Totenberg Current price: $27.99 Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes,struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly 50 years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 2
New Release Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization Neil deGrasse Tyson Current price: $28.99 Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time--war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race--in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
Solito: A Memoir Javier Zamora Current price: $28.00 A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this moving, page-turning memoir. A September 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 3
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir Michelle Zauner Current price: $26.95 From the indie rock star of Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. A May 2021 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: *
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II Buzz Bissinger Current price: $32.50 An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of Friday Night Lights. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 2
Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber Andy Borowitz Current price: $28.99 Profiles in Ignorance aims to make us both laugh and cry: laugh at the idiotic antics of public figures, and cry at the cataclysms the ignorance have caused. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 2
Dinner in One: Exceptional & Easy One-Pan Meals: A Cookbook Melissa Clark Current price: $29.99 100 all new, super simple, and incredibly delicious one-pot, one-pan, one-sheet—one-everything!—recipes. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 3
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones James Clear Current price: $27.00 James Clear reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 39
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture Gabor Maté, MD Current price: $30.00 A groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 2
Happy-Go-Lucky David Sedaris Current price: $29.00 David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestseller Calypso. Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: 17
New Release Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America Pekka Hämäläinen Current price: $40.00 Necessary reading for anyone who cares about America's past, present, and future, Indigenous Continent restores Native peoples to their rightful place at the very fulcrum of American history. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World Karen Armstrong Current price: $28.00 From one of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world, a profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature--and an urgent call to reclaim that power in everyday life. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 2
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel Taylor Jenkins Reid Current price: $17.00 Reid's novel is a mesmerizing journey through the splendor of old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: *
Verity Colleen Hoover Current price: $16.99 A sensational psychological thriller by the bestselling author of It Ends with Us. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 33
It Ends with Us: A Novel Colleen Hoover Current price: $16.99 In Hoover's honest, evocative, and tender novel, a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance can't stop thinking about her first love. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 44
Where the Crawdads Sing (Movie Tie-In) Delia Owens Current price: $18.00 Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: *
The Sentence: A Novel Louise Erdrich Current price: $18.00 This novel begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional, and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 3
Circe Madeline Miller Current price: $16.99 The masterful follow-up to The Song of Achilles is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: *
Book Lovers Emily Henry Current price: $17.00 An insightful, delightful new novel by the bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. The #1 Indie Next Pick for May 2022. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 21
The Song of Achilles: A Novel Madeline Miller Current price: $17.99 Miller's monumental debut novel is an action-packed adventure and epic love story that brilliantly re-imagines Homer's enduring masterwork, The Iliad. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: *
Ugly Love: A Novel Colleen Hoover Current price: $16.99 Hoover's novel is a heart-wrenching love story that proves attraction at first sight can be messy. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 17
The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel (A Thursday Murder Club Mystery #1) Richard Osman Current price: $17.00 In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 34
The Personal Librarian Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray Current price: $17.00 The remarkable story of J. P. Morgan's personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation. Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: 12
A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J. Maas Current price: $18.00 From bestselling author Sarah J. Maas comes a seductive, breathtaking book that blends romance, adventure, and faerie lore into an unforgettable read. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 3
Love on the Brain Ali Hazelwood Current price: $17.00 From the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis--with explosive results. The #1 Indie Next Pick for September 2022. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 5
The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides Current price: $17.99 A gripping psychological thriller about a woman's act of violence against her husband--and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: 32
November 9: A Novel Colleen Hoover Current price: $16.99 An unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: 9
Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer Current price: $20.00 Drawing on her life as an Indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: *
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. Current price: $19.00 van der Kolk transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: *
All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1) bell hooks Current price: $16.99 All About Love is a revelation about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 47
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law Mary Roach Current price: $16.95 Roach's irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 4
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest Suzanne Simard Current price: $17.00 Simard brings us into the intimate world of trees to illuminate fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 14
The 2023 Old Farmer's Almanac Old Farmer's Almanac Current price: $8.95 The annual almanac of weather, astrology, calendars, gardening tips, home remedies, and more all presented in the inimitably useful and humorous way it has done since 1792. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 3
How to Focus (Mindfulness Essentials #9) Thich Nhat Hanh Current price: $9.95 Written with characteristic simplicity and kindness, these wise meditations teach us that by practicing mindfulness in daily life, we are cultivating the power of concentration and fostering the conditions that bring insight, liberating us from misperceptions and misunderstanding. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 10
Gender Queer: A Memoir Maia Kobabe Current price: $19.99 Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 3
The Book of Delights: Essays Ross Gay Current price: $17.99 Gay's spirited collection of essays reminds us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders. Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: 2
Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover Current price: $18.99 Westover's unforgettable memoir about growing up, being kept out of school, leaving her survivalist family, and going on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 33
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills Current price: $12.95 A practical guide to personal freedom, outlining a way of life rooted in traditional Toltec beliefs. Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: *
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know Malcolm Gladwell Current price: $18.99 Gladwell offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 51
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Neil Price Current price: $19.99 Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, and their material world. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures Merlin Sheldrake Current price: $18.00 In Entangled Life, biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: *
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War Malcolm Gladwell Current price: $18.99 Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: 16
Fire & Blood (HBO Tie-in Edition): 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (The Targaryen Dynasty: The House of the Dragon) George R. R. Martin Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 5
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition George Orwell Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: *
A Game of Thrones (HBO Tie-in Edition): A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One George R. R. Martin Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: *
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition Anne Frank Current price: $7.99 Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 34
Slaughterhouse-Five (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) Kurt Vonnegut Current price: $7.99 Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 36
Where the Crawdads Sing (Movie Tie-In) Delia Owens Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 10
Mistborn: The Final Empire (The Mistborn Saga #1) Brandon Sanderson Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 26
Creepy Crayon! (Creepy Tales!) Aaron Reynolds Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 5
Room on the Broom Push-Pull-Slide Julia Donaldson Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 20
The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! Mo Willems Current price: $17.99 Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 3
Goodnight Moon Board Book Margaret Wise Brown Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: *
Construction Site Gets a Fright!: A Halloween Lift-the-Flap Book Sherri Duskey Rinker Current price: $12.99 Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: 2
Little Ghostie: Finger Puppet Book Chronicle Books Current price: $7.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
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Little Blue Truck Makes a Friend: A Friendship Book for Kids Alice Schertle Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 3
There's a Ghost In This House Oliver Jeffers Current price: $27.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 5
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's First Fall (The World of Eric Carle) Eric Carle Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 2
Creepy Crayon! (Creepy Tales!) Aaron Reynolds Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 5
Room on the Broom Push-Pull-Slide Julia Donaldson Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 20
Jessi's Secret Language: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-sitters Club #12) (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix) Ann M. Martin Current price: $12.99 Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 3
The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! Mo Willems Current price: $17.99 Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 3
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Goodnight Moon Board Book Margaret Wise Brown Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: *
Construction Site Gets a Fright!: A Halloween Lift-the-Flap Book Sherri Duskey Rinker Current price: $12.99 Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: 2
Little Ghostie: Finger Puppet Book Chronicle Books Current price: $7.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
Little Blue Truck's Halloween: A Halloween Book for Kids Alice Schertle Current price: $13.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 26
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