Indie Bestsellers for the Week of

June 10, 2025

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Atmosphere- Debut
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
2. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
3. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
4. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
5. Never Flinch
Stephen King, Scribner, $32, 9781668089330
6. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
7. Fever Beach
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $30, 9780593320945
8. The Knight and the Moth
Rachel Gillig, Orbit, $30, 9780316582704
9. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
10. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
11. Spent
Alison Bechdel, Mariner Books, $32, 9780063278929
12. The Listeners- Debut
Maggie Stiefvater, Viking, $30, 9780593655504
13. The First Gentleman- Debut
James Patterson, Bill Clinton, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316565103
14. Nightshade
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316588485
15. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366
2. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
3. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
4. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
5. We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle, The Dial Press, $34, 9780593977644
6. Mark Twain
Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $45, 9780525561729
7. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
8. Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson, Penguin Press, $32, 9798217060672
9. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
10. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133
11. How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir- Debut
Molly Jong-Fast, Viking, $28, 9780593656471
12. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
13. The #1 Dad Book: Be the Best Dad You Can Be in 1 Hour- Debut
James Patterson, Little, Brown and Company, $25, 9780316585071
14. Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin
Steve Martin, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9780306835735
15. Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
Nate Bargatze, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538768464
On the Rise:
17. A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir
Jacinda Ardern, Crown, $32, 9780593728697

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
2. One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910
3. Problematic Summer Romance
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9798217187430
4. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
5. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
6. The Tenant
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464227318
7. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
8. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
9. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
10. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
11. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
12. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
13. Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $21.99, 9781649377579
14. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
15. The Midnight Feast
Lucy Foley, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063003118
On the Rise:
16. The Spellshop
Sarah Beth Durst, Bramble, $19.99, 9781250324603

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
3. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
6. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780063073869
7. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
8. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
9. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
10. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780062993168
11. A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797232751
12. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
13. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
14. No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $16.95, 9798888903636
15. Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190

EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE

1. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
2. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
3. Outsider Kids: A Parachute Kids Graphic Novel
Betty C. Tang, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338832716
4. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234
5. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324
6. A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133
7. The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Grace Lin, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316478328
8. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
9. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
10. J vs. K
Kwame Alexander, Jerry Craft, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9780316582681
11. The Trouble with Heroes
Kate Messner, Bloomsbury Children's Books, $17.99, 9781547616398
12. Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019
13. The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315
14. The Village Beyond the Mist- Debut
Sachiko Kashiwaba, Miho Satake (Illus.), Yonder, $18, 9781632063922
15. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264

YOUNG ADULT

1. A Forgery of Fate- Debut
Elizabeth Lim, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780593650615
2. Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day (Indies Introduce)
Alex L. Combs, Andrew Eakett, Candlewick, $16.99, 9781536244175
3. The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
4. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
5. Wings of Starlight
Allison Saft, Random House/Disney, $18.99, 9781368098458
6. Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, Anna Bond (Illus.), Puffin Books, $17, 9780593622452
7. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
8. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
Andrew Joseph White, Peachtree Teen, $14.99, 9781682638149
9. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780375842207
10. And They Were Roommates
Page Powars, Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250347657
11. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196
12. A First Time for Everything- Debut
K. L. Walther, Sourcebooks Fire, $14.99, 9781728263144
13. Our Infinite Fates (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Laura Steven, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250333889
14. Betting on You
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665921244
15. Kill Creatures- Debut
Rory Power, Delacorte Press, $19.99, 9780593302316

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

1. The Day the Crayons Made Friends- Debut
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
2. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274
3. Will the Pigeon Graduate?
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454960430
4. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
5. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
6. Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063387843
7. Bluey: The Big Blue Guy's Book of Dad Goals
Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593888919
8. This Book Is Dangerous! (A Narwhal and Jelly Picture Book)- Debut
Ben Clanton, Tundra Books, $19.99, 9781774886564
9. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
10. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
11. Odder: An Otter's Story
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $18.99, 9781250323590
12. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
13. Happy Father's Day from the Crayons- Debut
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $9.99, 9780593624616
14. Don't Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673
15. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801

CHILDREN'S SERIES

1. The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press
2. Dog Man (hardcover)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
3. Wings of Fire (hardcover and paperback)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic
4. The Wild Robot (hardcover and paperback)
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams
6. Elephant & Piggie (hardcover)
Mo Willems, Hyperion
7. I Survived (hardcover and paperback)
Lauren Tarshis, Karen De la Vega (Illus.), Scholastic
8. InvestiGators (hardcover)
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second
9. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion
10. Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels (hardcover and paperback)
Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix
New in Series: Karen's Ghost (9781339005102)