Indie Bestsellers for the Week of

April 22nd, 2026

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30, 9780593804216
2. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
3. The Keeper
Tana French, Viking, $32, 9780593493465
4. The Night We Met (Indie Exclusive Edition)
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $30, 9781538780688
5. Kin
Tayari Jones, Knopf, $32, 9780525659181
6. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
7. Go Gentle- Debut
Maria Semple, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $30, 9798217176632
8. The Faith of Beasts- Debut
James S. A. Corey, Orbit, $32, 9780316525671
9. Cherry Baby- Debut
Rainbow Rowell, William Morrow, $32, 9780063380264
10. The Ending Writes Itself
Evelyn Clarke, Harper, $30, 9780063444614
11. Transcription
Ben Lerner, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25, 9780374618599
12. American Fantasy
Emma Straub, Riverhead Books, $30, 9798217046850
13. Rites of the Starling
Devney Perry, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $32.99, 9781682816752
14. Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman, Tor Nightfire, $29.99, 9781250439208
15. Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820261
On the Rise:
16. Hope Rises
David Baldacci, Grand Central Publishing, $32, 9781538758021

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Famesick: A Memoir- Debut
Lena Dunham, Random House, $32, 9780593129326
2. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35, 9780385548533
3. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318
4. A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $32, 9781984881991
5. The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Alice Hoffman (Ed.), Scribner, $22, 9781668209028
6. How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
Jenny Lawson, Penguin Life, $29, 9780593833216
7. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
8. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
9. The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness
Arthur C. Brooks, Portfolio, $30, 9780593545423
10. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
11. Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
Molly Crabapple, One World, $32, 9780593229453
12. Joyful, Anyway
Kate Bowler, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593734193
13. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
14. The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land- Debut
Aziz Abu Sarah, Maoz Inon, Crown, $30, 9798217086511
15. Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life
Alex Mayyasi, Hosts of NPR's Planet Money, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324078777

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
2. Project Hail Mary (Movie Tie-In)
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22, 9798217299461
3. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254
4. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
5. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
6. Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637
7. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
8. On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)- Debut
Solvej Balle, Sophia Hersi Smith (Transl.), Jennifer Russell (Transl.), New Directions, $16.95, 9780811238410
9. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
10. The Road to Tender Hearts- Debut
Annie Hartnett, Ballantine Books, $20, 9780593873465
11. Red Rising
Pierce Brown, Del Rey, $18, 9780345539809
12. Game On
Navessa Allen, Slowburn, $19, 9781638932277
13. Dear Debbie
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464249624
14. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
15. Three Days in June- Debut
Anne Tyler, Vintage, $18, 9780593689325

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21, 9780593689004
2. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $22, 9780385348768
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
4. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko, Scribner, $22, 9781501183065
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
6. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470
7. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
8. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir- Debut
Ina Garten, Crown, $22, 9780593800027
9. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $16.95, 9798888904510
10. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
11. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
12. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin Books, $19, 9780143127741
13. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $22, 9780307279286
14. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
Evan Friss, Penguin Books, $20, 9780593299944
15. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257

EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE

1. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Manga
Dav Pilkey, Motojiro (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546151210
2. A Potion, a Powder, a Little Bit of Magic: Or, Like Lightning in an Umbrella Storm
Philip C. Stead, Neal Porter Books, $18.99, 9780823458097
3. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
4. A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780063415140
5. Unsettling Salad! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961110
6. KPop Demon Hunters: The Movie in Comics: The Official Retelling in Comic Form
Random House Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9798217234301
7. Fruitcake: A Graphic Novel
Rex Ogle, Dave Valeza (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338575071
8. Rialto- Debut
Kate Milford, Clarion Books, $19.99, 9781328466914
9. The Unlikely Tale of Chase and Finnegan
Jasmine Warga, Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250387189
10. Princess Academy Graphic Novel
Shannon Hale, Bloomsbury Children's Books, $16.99, 9781547612031
11. The Lions' Run
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250392817
12. A Fishboy Named . . . Sashimi- Debut
Dan Santat, Roaring Brook Press, $8.99, 9781250360007
13. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
14. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
15. Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019

YOUNG ADULT

1. The Escape Game
Marissa Meyer, Tamara Moss, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $22.99, 9798217006120
2. The Faraway Inn
Sarah Beth Durst, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217024308
3. Release Me (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Tahereh Mafi, Storytide, $25.99, 9780063480339
4. The Thorn Queen Deluxe Limited Edition- Debut
Sasha Peyton Smith, HarperCollins, $24.99, 9780063481152
5. The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
6. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition)
Stephen Chbosky, Simon Pulse, $15.99, 9781665982412
8. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544336261
9. Nothing Like the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665947145
10. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9780375842207
11. Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë, Anna Bond (Illus.), Puffin Books, $19, 9798217043408
12. Forgive-Me-Not: A Graphic Novel- Debut
Mari Costa, First Second, $19.99, 9781250784179
13. What We Did to Survive
Megan Lally, Sourcebooks Fire, $12.99, 9781728270173
14. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268
15. The Sun and the Starmaker (Deluxe Edition)
Rachel Griffin, Sourcebooks Fire, $19.99, 9781728256184

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

1. It's My Bird-Day!
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454999621
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
4. For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977
5. Good Night, Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $10.99, 9780358229278
6. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
7. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
8. Good Night, Escargot- Debut
Dashka Slater, Sydney Hanson (Illus.), Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR, $18.99, 9780374392291
9. The Future Book
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9798217033171
10. Don't Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673
11. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
12. If We Were Dogs
Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581721
13. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, Lois Ehlert (Illus.), Little Simon, $7.99, 9781442450707
14. Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $10.99, 9780358451228
15. Buffalo Fluffalo
Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.), Random House Studio, $18.99, 9780593564530

CHILDREN'S SERIES

1. Wings of Fire (hardcover and paperback)
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic
2. Dog Man (hardcover)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams
4. The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press
5. I Survived (hardcover and paperback)
Lauren Tarshis, Cassie Anderson (Illus.), Scholastic
6. InvestiGators (hardcover)
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second
7. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
8. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion
9. Baby-Sitters Club Graphix (hardcover and paperback)
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Scholastic
10. Elephant & Piggie (hardcover)
Mo Willems, Hyperion

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