Indie Bestsellers for the Week of

April 29, 2025

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Great Big Beautiful Life- Debut
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
2. Say You'll Remember Me
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $28, 9781538759196
3. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
4. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
5. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
6. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
7. The Sirens
Emilia Hart, St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250280824
8. Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181
9. Heartwood
Amity Gaige, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668063606
10. Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323
11. Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $32, 9780593802724
12. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
13. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones, S&S/Saga Press, $29.99, 9781668075081
14. Dungeon Crawler Carl- Debut
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247
15. The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami, Pantheon, $29, 9780593317600

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. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life- Debut
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
4. Everything Is Tuberculosis (Standard Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
5. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
6. Notes to John- Debut
Joan Didion, Knopf, $32, 9780593803677
7. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
8. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Flatiron Books, $32.99, 9781250391230
9. Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525426059
10. Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
Michael Lewis (Ed.), Riverhead Books, $30, 9798217047802
11. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
12. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
13. The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward
Melinda French Gates, Flatiron Books, $25.99, 9781250378651
14. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
15. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
On the Rise:
17. Matriarch: A Memoir
Tina Knowles, One World, $35, 9780593597408

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
2. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
3. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
4. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
5. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
6. Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $19, 9780063327535
7. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
8. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
9. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Vintage, $19, 9780593314487
10. Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Penguin Books, $19, 9780593296394
11. The Paris Novel- Debut
Ruth Reichl, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $19, 9780812986372
12. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
13. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
14. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
15. Deep End
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593550441

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. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
4. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
5. A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797232751
6. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
7. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
8. Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190
9. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208
10. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
11. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
12. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
13. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593448809
14. A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $22.99, 9780062397348
15. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Dean Spade, Verso, $15.95, 9781839762123

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. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234
4. A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133
5. A Song for You and I: A Graphic Novel
K. O'Neill, Random House Graphic, $13.99, 9780593182307
6. Rebellion 1776
Laurie Halse Anderson, Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $18.99, 9781416968269
7. Outsider Kids: A Parachute Kids Graphic Novel
Betty C. Tang, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338832716
8. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
9. Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019
10. The Lost Library
Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250838834
11. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264
12. Bluey 5-Minute Stories: 6 Stories in 1 Book? Hooray!
Penguin Young Readers, $14.99, 9780593521908
13. The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542
14. The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315
15. Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880

YOUNG ADULT

1. Our Infinite Fates (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Laura Steven, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250333889
2. Wings of Starlight
Allison Saft, Disney Press, $18.99, 9781368098458
3. Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, Anna Bond (Illus.), Puffin Books, $17, 9780593622452
4. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
5. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
6. Heartless Hunter: The Crimson Moth: Book 1
Kristen Ciccarelli, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250866905
7. Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao, Tundra Books, $11.99, 9780735269958
8. The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
9. Fable for the End of the World (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Ava Reid, HarperCollins, $24.99, 9780063430013
10. Rebel Witch: The Crimson Moth: Book 2
Kristen Ciccarelli, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250866929
11. A Tempest of Tea
Hafsah Faizal, Square Fish, $14.99, 9781250824998
12. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196
13. The Summer I Ate the Rich- Debut
Maika Moulite, Maritza Moulite, Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR, $19.99, 9780374390532
14. Nothing Like the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665947138
15. Run Away With Me
Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press, $24.99, 9781339035529

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

1. Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063387843
2. Don't Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
4. Will the Pigeon Graduate?
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454960430
5. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
6. Grumpy Monkey Mom for a Day
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $12.99, 9780593709313
7. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
8. Bluey: Road Trip- Debut
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593891384
9. The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968
10. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801
11. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, Lois Ehlert (Illus.), Little Simon, $7.99, 9781442450707
12. Bluey: Bedroom- Debut
Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593890820
13. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
14. Dragon's First Taco
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593533178
15. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035

CHILDREN'S SERIES

1. The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press
2. Dog Man (hardcover)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
3. The Powerless Trilogy (hardcover and paperback)
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams
5. Elephant & Piggie (hardcover)
Mo Willems, Hyperion
6. Wings of Fire (hardcover and paperback)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic
7. I Survived (hardcover and paperback)
Lauren Tarshis, Karen De la Vega (Illus.), Scholastic
8. The Wild Robot (hardcover and paperback)
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
9. InvestiGators (hardcover)
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second
10. Baby-Sitters Club Graphix (hardcover and paperback)
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Scholastic