Indie Bestsellers for the Week of

September 10, 2025

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $35, 9780063021471
2. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
3. Buckeye- Debut
Patrick Ryan, Random House, $30, 9780593595039
4. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
5. Wild Reverence- Debut
Rebecca Ross, Saturday Books, $32, 9781250373359
6. The Hallmarked Man- Debut
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland Books, $40, 9780316586009
7. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
8. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
9. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
10. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247
11. Hemlock & Silver
T. Kingfisher, Tor Books, $28.99, 9781250342034
12. Katabasis (Standard Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
13. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
14. The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
15. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
On the Rise:
17. Apostle's Cove
William Kent Krueger, Atria Books, $29, 9781982179304

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. Mother Mary Comes to Me- Debut
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
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. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
6. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288
7. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
8. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
9. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
10. The Little Frog's Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog- Debut
Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837994731
11. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
12. The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog
Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837991013
13. The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
Seth Harp, Viking, $30, 9780593655085
14. I'm Just a Little Guy: How to Escape the Horrors and Get Back to Dillydallying
Charlie James, Quirk Books, $14.99, 9781683694946
15. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
On the Rise:
17. Sally's Baking 101: Foolproof Recipes from Easy to Advanced
Sally McKenney, Clarkson Potter, $32.99, 9780593581964

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
2. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
3. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
4. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
5. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
6. The Life Impossible- Debut
Matt Haig, Penguin, $19, 9780593489291
7. A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Sangu Mandanna, Berkley, $19, 9780593439371
8. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
9. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
10. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
11. All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $19, 9780593798898
12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
13. The Surrogate Mother
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464227301
14. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
15. If It Makes You Happy- Debut
Julie Olivia, Berkley, $19, 9798217187072

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
3. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
4. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
6. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum, Vintage, $18, 9780593471203
7. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
8. The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac- Debut
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781961793682
9. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
10. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
11. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
12. A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $23.99, 9780062397348
13. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
14. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Morgan Housel, Harriman House, $19.99, 9780857197689
15. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
Daniel J. Levitin, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324110583

EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE

1. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
2. Hurricane Heist (The Sherlock Society #2)- Debut
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665932561
3. Space Case The Graphic Novel
Stuart Gibbs, Ward Jenkins (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665934817
4. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
5. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
6. Dream On
Shannon Hale, Marcela Cespedes (Illus.), Roaring Brook Press, $14.99, 9781250843074
7. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: Color Edition
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338687859
8. The Last Resort- Debut
Erin Entrada Kelly, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9781546132431
9. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324
10. Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019
11. The Lost Library
Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250838834
12. Tuck Everlasting: The Graphic Novel- Debut
Natalie Babbitt, K. Woodman-Maynard (Illus.), Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR, $14.99, 9780374391867
13. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
14. Max, a Little Axolotl #1 (An Original Graphic Novel)- Debut
Joey Spiotto, Graphix, $12.99, 9781546169451
15. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234

YOUNG ADULT

1. Sisters in the Wind- Debut
Angeline Boulley, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $19.99, 9781250328533
2. Falling Like Leaves- Debut
Misty Wilson, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $12.99, 9781665975193
3. By Invitation Only- Debut
Alexandra Brown Chang, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $19.99, 9781665972437
4. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
5. Nothing Like the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665947145
6. Thorn Season (Deluxe Limited Edition)- Debut
Kiera Azar, Storytide, $24.99, 9780063464773
7. The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
8. Glorious Rivals
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780316481311
9. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
10. Immortal Consequences
I. V. Marie, Delacorte Press, $21.99, 9780593898802
11. A Theory of Dreaming (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Ava Reid, HarperCollins, $24.99, 9780063432925
12. The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel
Maggie Stiefvater, Stephanie Williams, Sas Milledge (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780593621189
13. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196
14. Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, Anna Bond (Illus.), Puffin Books, $17, 9780593622452
15. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544336261

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

1. Hansel and Gretel- Debut
Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.), HarperCollins, $26.99, 9780062644695
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. Troubling Tonsils!- Debut
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961080
4. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
5. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
6. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
7. Richard Scarry's Halloween Cars and Trucks
Richard Scarry, Random House Books for Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593905166
8. Aggie and the Ghost
Matthew Forsythe, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, $19.99, 9781534478206
9. Oh Dear, Look What I Got!- Debut
Michael Rosen, Helen Oxenbury (Illus.), Candlewick, $17.99, 9781536235685
10. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
11. Indestructibles: Baby Loves Fall- Debut
Workman Publishing, Workman Kids, $5.99, 9781523528783
12. Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $9.99, 9780140501698
13. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
14. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
15. Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book- Debut
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232782

CHILDREN'S SERIES

1. Dog Man (hardcover)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
2. The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press
3. The Powerless Trilogy (hardcover and paperback)
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
New in Series: Fearful: A Powerless Story (9781665971072)
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. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback)
Mary Pope Osborne, Kelly Matthews (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
New in Series: Midnight on the Moon Graphic Novel (9780593706046)
8. I Survived (hardcover and paperback)
Lauren Tarshis, Chris Chalik (Illus.), Scholastic
9. The Summer I Turned Pretty (hardcover and paperback)
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
10. The Wild Robot (hardcover and paperback)
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers