Indie Bestsellers for the Week of

July 30, 2025

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
2. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
3. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
4. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
5. Not Quite Dead Yet- Debut
Holly Jackson, Bantam, $28, 9780593977057
6. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
7. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
8. The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $29, 9780593874325
9. The Enchanted Greenhouse
Sarah Beth Durst, Bramble, $29.99, 9781250333988
10. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
11. The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
12. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247
13. An Inside Job
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217
14. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
15. The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy
Brigitte Knightley, Ace, $30, 9780593819456

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. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
3. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
4. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
5. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
6. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
7. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
8. We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle, The Dial Press, $34, 9780593977644
9. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
10. 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
11. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
12. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
13. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133
14. Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
Caroline Fraser, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593657225
15. Mark Twain
Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $45, 9780525561729

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
2. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
3. One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910
4. A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Sangu Mandanna, Berkley, $19, 9780593439371
5. All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $19, 9780593798898
6. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
7. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
8. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
9. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
10. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
11. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
12. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
13. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
14. Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $19, 9780593798621
15. The Tenant
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464227318

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 Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
5. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
6. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
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. Didion and Babitz- Debut
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
9. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
10. A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $23.99, 9780062397348
11. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
12. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780062993168
13. 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
14. A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797232751
15. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951

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. Miss Camper: A Graphic Novel
Kat Fajardo, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338535617
5. Snoop
Gordon Korman, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781546126089
6. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
7. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
8. A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133
9. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264
10. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324
11. Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880
12. Unico: Hunted (Volume 2): An Original Manga
Samuel Sattin, Gurihiru (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781546110460
13. Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019
14. Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801897
15. A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780062895943

YOUNG ADULT

1. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
2. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
3. The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
4. Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, Anna Bond (Illus.), Puffin Books, $17, 9780593622452
5. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
6. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780375842207
7. Five Survive
Holly Jackson, Ember, $14.99, 9780593374191
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196
9. Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe
C. B. Lee, Feiwel & Friends, $14.99, 9781250417336
10. Betting on You
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665921244
11. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544340688
12. A Treachery of Swans
A. B. Poranek, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $19.99, 9781665936507
13. Nothing Like the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665947138
14. A Forgery of Fate
Elizabeth Lim, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780593650615
15. Girl in Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow, Ember, $10.99, 9781101934746

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

1. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
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. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
5. Where's Waldo?
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210651
6. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
7. Millie Fleur Saves the Night
Christy Mandin, Orchard Books, $18.99, 9781339023373
8. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
9. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
10. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, Lois Ehlert (Illus.), Little Simon, $7.99, 9781442450707
11. Tiny T. Rex and the First-Day Oopsies
Jonathan Stutzman, Jay Fleck (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $16.99, 9781797233208
12. Where's Waldo? The Totally Essential Travel Collection
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $14.99, 9781536224399
13. Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063387843
14. Don't Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673
15. Jamberry
Bruce Degen, HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780694006519

CHILDREN'S SERIES

1. Dog Man (hardcover)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
2. The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams
4. Wings of Fire (hardcover and paperback)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic
5. The Wild Robot (hardcover and paperback)
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
6. The Summer I Turned Pretty (hardcover and paperback)
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
7. Elephant & Piggie (hardcover)
Mo Willems, Hyperion
8. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion
9. I Survived (hardcover and paperback)
Lauren Tarshis, Karen De la Vega (Illus.), Scholastic
10. InvestiGators (hardcover)
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second