The Indie Bestseller List
Published Wednesday, March 16, 2022 (for the sales week ended Sunday, March 13, 2022). 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
#1-Run, Rose, Run, by James Patterson, Dolly Parton (9780759554344)
#9-Shadows Reel, by C.J. Box (9780593331262)
#15-Booth, by Karen Joy Fowler (9780593331439)
Hardcover Nonfiction
#1-The Wok, by J. Kenji López-Alt (9780393541212)
#5-In Love, by Amy Bloom (9780593243947)
#12-The Beauty of Dusk, by Frank Bruni (9781982108571)
#14-The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke (9781594633799)
Early & Middle Grade Readers
#1-The Ogress and the Orphans, by Kelly Barnhill (9781643750743)
#15-Map of Flames, by Lisa McMann (9780593325407)
Young Adult
#10-Squire, by Nadia Shammas, Sara Alfageeh (Illus.) (9780062945846)
#15-A Far Wilder Magic, by Allison Saft (9781250623652)
Children’s Illustrated
#2-Pretty Perfect Kitty-Corn, by Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.) (9781419750939)
#9-She Persisted in Science, by Chelsea Clinton, Alexandra Boiger (Illus.) (9780593353295)
#11-The Great Big Easter Egg Hunt, by Beatrix Potter (9780241544709)
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Run, Rose, Run- Debut
James Patterson, Dolly Parton, Little, Brown, $30, 9780759554344
2. The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley, Morrow, $28.99, 9780063003057
3. The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles, Viking, $30, 9780735222359
4. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474
5. One Italian Summer
Rebecca Serle, Atria, $27, 9781982166793
6. Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $30, 9781982168438
7. Violeta
Isabel Allende, Ballantine, $28, 9780593496206
8. The Maid
Nita Prose, Ballantine, $27, 9780593356159
9. Shadows Reel- Debut
C.J. Box, Putnam, $28, 9780593331262
10. Call Us What We Carry: Poems
Amanda Gorman, Viking, $24.99, 9780593465066
11. The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake, Tor, $25.99, 9781250854513
12. The Swimmers
Julie Otsuka, Knopf, $23, 9780593321331
13. The Sentence
Louise Erdrich, Harper, $28.99, 9780062671127
14. Moon Witch, Spider King
Marlon James, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780735220201
15. Booth- Debut
Karen Joy Fowler, Putnam, $28, 9780593331439
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Wok: Recipes and Techniques- Debut
J. Kenji López-Alt, Norton, $50, 9780393541212
2. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brené Brown, Random House, $30, 9780399592553
3. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657743
4. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, One World, $38, 9780593230572
5. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss- Debut
Amy Bloom, Random House, $27, 9780593243947
6. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
7. The Nineties: A Book
Chuck Klosterman, Penguin Press, $28, 9780735217959
8. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
9. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber, David Wengrow, FSG, $35, 9780374157357
10. Taste: My Life Through Food
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $28, 9781982168018
11. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
Michael Schur, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781982159313
12. The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found- Debut
Frank Bruni, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28, 9781982108571
13. These Precious Days: Essays
Ann Patchett, Harper, $26.99, 9780063092785
14. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness- Debut
Meghan O’Rourke, Riverhead Books, $28, 9781594633799
15. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl, Dey Street Books, $29.99, 9780063076099
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro, Vintage, $16.95, 9780593311295
2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501161933
3. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624
4. It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781501110368
5. The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $18, 9780525536963
6. People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806758
7. The Paris Library
Janet Skeslien Charles, Atria, $17.99, 9781982134204
8. Verity
Colleen Hoover, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538724736
9. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
10. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318
11. The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $16, 9780593336823
12. The Lost Apothecary
Sarah Penner, Park Row, $17.99, 9780778311973
13. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $18, 9780735219106
14. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501160844
15. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $17, 9781984880987
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale
Art Spiegelman, Pantheon, $16.95, 9780394747231
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
3. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
4. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Erik Larson, Crown, $20, 9780385348737
5. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $15.99, 9780060959470
6. Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Art Spiegelman, Pantheon, $16.95, 9780679729778
7. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $18, 9780399588600
8. Educated: A Memoir (An Indies Introduce Title)
Tara Westover, Random House, $18.99, 9780399590528
9. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $17, 9781400078431
10. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake, Random House, $18, 9780525510321
11. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles, Random House, $18.99, 9781984855015
12. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
13. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316299220
14. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797212272
15. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
On the Rise:
18. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Serhii Plokhy, Basic Books, $19.99, 9781541675643
A history of Ukraine by the award-winning author of The Last Empire.
MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593438367
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
3. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
4. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $9.99, 9780765365279
5. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129
6. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
7. Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345409874
8. Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441104024
9. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $7.99, 9780440180296
10. Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $7.99, 9780553293357
EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE READERS
1. The Ogress and the Orphans- Debut
Kelly Barnhill, Algonquin Young Readers, $19.95, 9781643750743
2. New from Here
Kelly Yang, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781534488304
3. Wingbearer
Marjorie Liu, Teny Issakhanian (Illus.), Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062741158
4. The Last Cuentista
Donna Barba Higuera, Levine Querido, $17.99, 9781646140893
5. The Aquanaut: A Graphic Novel
Dan Santat, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545497619
6. Super Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $14.99, 9781338714128
7. Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scholastic, $12.99, 9781338801897
8. Once Upon a Tim
Stuart Gibbs, Stacy Curtis (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534499256
9. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264
10. Friends Forever
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250317568
11. Stuntboy, in the Meantime
Jason Reynolds, Raúl the Third (Illus.), Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $13.99, 9781534418165
12. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419756979
13. Guts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500
14. Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations #1)
B.B. Alston, Balzer + Bray, $8.99, 9780062975171
15. Map of Flames (The Forgotten Five, Book 1)- Debut
Lisa McMann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780593325407
YOUNG ADULT
1. Gallant
V.E. Schwab, Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780062835772
2. All My Rage
Sabaa Tahir, Razorbill, $19.99, 9780593202340
3. They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera, Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062457806
4. We Were Liars
E. Lockhart, Ember, $10.99, 9780385741279
5. Legendborn (An Indies Introduce Title)
Tracy Deonn, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $13.99, 9781534441613
6. I Must Betray You
Ruta Sepetys, Philomel Books, $18.99, 9781984836038
7. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $17.99, 9781524714680
8. Firekeeper’s Daughter
Angeline Boulley, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $18.99, 9781250766564
9. Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao, Penguin Teen, $17.99, 9780735269934
10. Squire- Debut
Nadia Shammas, Sara Alfageeh (Illus.), Quill Tree Books, $14.99, 9780062945846
11. Ain’t Burned All the Bright
Jason Reynolds, Jason Griffin (Illus.), Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $19.99, 9781534439467
12. The Girl from the Sea: A Graphic Novel
Molly Knox Ostertag, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338540574
13. Anatomy: A Love Story
Dana Schwartz, Wednesday Books, $18.99, 9781250774156
14. The Lost Dreamer
Lizz Huerta, Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR, $18.99, 9781250754851
15. A Far Wilder Magic- Debut
Allison Saft, Wednesday Books, $18.99, 9781250623652
CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
2. Pretty Perfect Kitty-Corn- Debut
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Abrams Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781419750939
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
4. Aaron Slater, Illustrator
Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Abrams, $18.99, 9781419753961
5. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $19.95, 9780060254926
6. Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem
Amanda Gorman, Loren Long (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593203224
7. Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $8.99, 9780358451228
8. Woodland Dance!
Sandra Boynton, Workman, $7.95, 9781523514687
9. She Persisted in Science: Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference- Debut
Chelsea Clinton, Alexandra Boiger (Illus.), Philomel Books, $17.99, 9780593353295
10. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $7.99, 9780399230035
11. The Great Big Easter Egg Hunt (Peter Rabbit)- Debut
Beatrix Potter, Warne, $8.99, 9780241544709
12. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
13. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
14. Just Help!: How to Build a Better World
Sonia Sotomayor, Angela Dominguez (Illus.), Philomel Books, $17.99, 9780593206263
15. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial, $18.99, 9780803736801
CHILDREN’S SERIES
1. Wings of Fire (hardcover and paperback)
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet
3. Elephant and Piggie (hardcover)
Mo Willems, Hyperion
4. The Bad Guys (paperback)
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic
5. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
6. Baby-Sitters Club Graphix (hardcover and paperback)
Ann M. Martin, Gabriela Epstein (Illus.), Scholastic
7. Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback)
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books
8. I Survived (paperback)
Lauren Tarshis, Scholastic
9. The Princess in Black (hardcover and paperback)
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick
10. Dog Man (hardcover)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
