The Indie Bestseller List
Published Wednesday, August 23, 2023 (for the sales week ended Sunday, August 20, 2023). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States. For information on more titles, please visit IndieBound.org.
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Debuts for the week:
Hardcover Fiction
#13-The Invisible Hour, by Alice Hoffman (9781982175375)
#14-Masters of Death, by Olivie Blake (9781250892461)
Paperback Fiction
#7-The Rabbit Hutch, by Tess Gunty (9780593467879)
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30, 9780063327528
2. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946
3. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922
4. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374042
5. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $32, 9780802162175
6. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29, 9780385547345
7. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28, 9780593321201
8. Happy Place
Emily Henry, Berkley, $27, 9780593441275
9. Yellowface
R. F. Kuang, Morrow, $30, 9780063250833
10. Crook Manifesto
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $29, 9780385545150
11. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
12. Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano, The Dial Press, $28, 9780593243732
13. The Invisible Hour- Debut
Alice Hoffman, Atria Books, $27.99, 9781982175375
14. Masters of Death- Debut
Olivie Blake, Tor Books, $26.99, 9781250892461
15. The Guest
Emma Cline, Random House, $28, 9780812998627
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
2. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
3. I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781982185824
4. Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia, M.D., Bill Gifford, Harmony, $32, 9780593236598
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Knopf, $28, 9780525657323
6. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
7. Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $28, 9780593239919
8. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593298886
9. Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s
B. Dylan Hollis, DK, $32, 9780744080049
10. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
11. Pageboy: A Memoir
Elliot Page, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250878359
12. Blueberries for Sal Cookbook: Sweet Recipes Inspired by the Beloved Children’s Classic
Robert McCloskey, Clarkson Potter, $14, 9780593580400
13. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
Susan Casey, Doubleday, $32, 9780385545570
14. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Timothy Egan, Viking, $30, 9780735225268
15. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Jeff Goodell, Little, Brown, $29, 9780316497572
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324
2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501161933
3. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
5. It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781501110368
6. Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston, St. Martin’s Griffin, $16.99, 9781250316776
7. The Rabbit Hutch- Debut
Tess Gunty, Vintage, $17, 9780593467879
8. The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $17.99, 9781501171352
9. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624
10. Beach Read
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806734
11. It Starts with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $17.99, 9781668001226
12. Too Late
Colleen Hoover, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538756591
13. Verity
Colleen Hoover, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538724736
14. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
15. Love, Theoretically
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $17, 9780593336861
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $17, 9780307742483
2. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin, Vintage, $25, 9780375726262
3. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
5. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
6. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
7. Happy-Go-Lucky
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316392433
8. Solito: A Memoir
Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $18, 9780593498088
9. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $18, 9781250849359
10. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison
Ben Macintyre, Crown, $18, 9780593136355
11. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Dr. Anna Lembke, Dutton, $18, 9781524746742
12. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316299220
13. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
14. The Book of Delights: Essays
Ross Gay, Algonquin Books, $17.99, 9781643753287
15. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593438367
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
3. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062836977
4. No Plan B
Lee Child, Andrew Child, Dell, $9.99, 9781984818577
5. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9780765365279
6. The Judge’s List
John Grisham, Vintage, $9.99, 9780593157831
7. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
8. Billy Summers
Stephen King, Pocket, $11.99, 9781668010129
9. Sparring Partners
John Grisham, Vintage, $9.99, 9780593470909
10. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $7.99, 9780345391803
EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE READERS
1. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361
2. The One and Only Ruby
Katherine Applegate, Harper, $19.99, 9780063080089
3. From the World of Percy Jackson: The Sun and the Star
Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro, Disney Hyperion, $19.99, 9781368081153
4. School Trip: A Graphic Novel
Jerry Craft, Quill Tree Books, $14.99, 9780062885531
5. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780062991324
6. Mexikid
Pedro Martín, Dial Books, $14.99, 9780593462294
7. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Judy Blume, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781665921312
8. Super Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $14.99, 9781338714128
9. Odder
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9781250147424
10. Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880
11. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264
12. Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801897
13. Squished: A Graphic Novel
Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338568936
14. Swim Team: A Graphic Novel
Johnnie Christmas, HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063056763
15. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
YOUNG ADULT
1. Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross, Wednesday Books, $18.99, 9781250857439
2. Nimona
ND Stevenson, Quill Tree Books, $18.99, 9780062278227
3. Solitaire
Alice Oseman, Scholastic Press, $19.99, 9781338863420
4. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
5. They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera, Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062457806
6. Hell Followed with Us
Andrew Joseph White, Peachtree Teen, $12.99, 9781682635636
7. Nick and Charlie
Alice Oseman, Scholastic Press, $16.99, 9781338885101
8. We Were Liars
E. Lockhart, Ember, $10.99, 9780385741279
9. Loveless
Alice Oseman, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338751932
10. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
11. Five Survive
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $19.99, 9780593374160
12. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $9.99, 9780544340688
13. The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich (A Graphic Novel)
Deya Muniz, Little, Brown Ink, $17.99, 9780316538725
14. The Girl from the Sea: A Graphic Novel
Molly Knox Ostertag, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338540574
15. Ace of Spades
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Square Fish, $12.99, 9781250800800
CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
2. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718
3. Bluey: The Pool
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593385685
4. Bluey: Camping
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593519103
5. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
6. Bluey: The Beach
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593226094
7. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $19.95, 9780060254926
8. Bluey: Barky Boats
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593750469
9. Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $8.99, 9780140501698
10. The Crayons Go Back to School
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $9.99, 9780593621110
11. Bluey: The Creek
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593224571
12. Bluey 5-Minute Stories: 6 Stories in 1 Book? Hooray!
Penguin Young Readers, $14.99, 9780593521908
13. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
14. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
15. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
CHILDREN’S SERIES
1. Dog Man (hardcover)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
2. The Summer I Turned Pretty (hardcover and paperback)
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
3. Elephant & Piggie (hardcover)
Mo Willems, Hyperion
4. Heartstopper (hardcover and paperback)
Alice Oseman, Graphix
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet
6. Wings of Fire (hardcover and paperback)
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic
7. The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic
8. The Bad Guys (paperback)
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic
9. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (hardcover and paperback)
Holly Jackson, Ember
10. I Survived (hardcover and paperback)
Lauren Tarshis, Álvaro Sarraseca (Illus.), Scholastic
