The Indie Bestseller List
Published Wednesday, February 16, 2022 (for the sales week ended Sunday, February 13, 2022). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States.
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Debuts for the week:
Hardcover Fiction
#14-Love & Saffron, by Kim Fay (9780593419335)
Hardcover Nonfiction
#3-The Nineties, by Chuck Klosterman (9780735217959)
#15-Stolen Focus, by Johann Hari (9780593138519)
Paperback Fiction
#10-Verity, by Colleen Hoover (9781538724736)
Paperback Nonfiction
#5-Educated, by Tara Westover (9780399590528)
#12-The Sum of Us, by Heather McGhee (9780525509585)
Children’s Illustrated
#13-A Unicorn Named Sparkle and the Perfect Valentine, by Amy Young (9780374314224)
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles, Viking, $30, 9780735222359
2. Violeta
Isabel Allende, Ballantine, $28, 9780593496206
3. Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $30, 9781982168438
4. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474
5. Call Us What We Carry: Poems
Amanda Gorman, Viking, $24.99, 9780593465066
6. The Maid
Nita Prose, Ballantine, $27, 9780593356159
7. Devil House
John Darnielle, MCD, $28, 9780374212230
8. Recitatif: A Story
Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith (Intro.), Knopf, $16, 9780593315033
9. To Paradise
Hanya Yanagihara, Doubleday, $32.50, 9780385547932
10. The Sentence
Louise Erdrich, Harper, $28.99, 9780062671127
11. The Books of Jacob
Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (Transl.), Riverhead Books, $35, 9780593087480
12. The Christie Affair
Nina de Gramont, St. Martin’s Press, $27.99, 9781250274618
13. The Paris Bookseller
Kerri Maher, Berkley, $26, 9780593102183
14. Love & Saffron- Debut
Kim Fay, Putnam, $24, 9780593419335
15. Wish You Were Here
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $28.99, 9781984818416
On the Rise:
19. The Violin Conspiracy
Brendan Slocumb, Anchor, $28, 9780593315415
Slocumb’s riveting novel about a Black classical musician’s desperate quest to recover his lost violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world is a February 2022 Indie Next Pick.
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brené Brown, Random House, $30, 9780399592553
2. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, One World, $38, 9780593230572
3. The Nineties: A Book- Debut
Chuck Klosterman, Penguin Press, $28, 9780735217959
4. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657743
5. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
6. The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
Art Spiegelman, Pantheon, $35, 9780679406419
7. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
Michael Schur, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781982159313
8. Taste: My Life Through Food
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $28, 9781982168018
9. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber, David Wengrow, FSG, $35, 9780374157357
10. Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
Jamie Raskin, Harper, $27.99, 9780063209787
11. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl, Dey Street Books, $29.99, 9780063076099
12. These Precious Days: Essays
Ann Patchett, Harper, $26.99, 9780063092785
13. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
14. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani Perry, Ecco, $28.99, 9780062977403
15. Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again- Debut
Johann Hari, Crown, $28, 9780593138519
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501161933
2. The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $18, 9780525536963
3. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624
4. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318
5. It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781501110368
6. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
7. People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806758
8. The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $16, 9780593336823
9. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $17, 9781984880987
10. Verity- Debut
Colleen Hoover, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538724736
11. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501160844
12. Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, Vintage, $16.95, 9780804172448
13. Reminders of Him
Colleen Hoover, Montlake, $15.95, 9781542025607
14. The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich, Harper Perennial, $18, 9780062671196
15. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $18, 9780735219106
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
2. Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale
Art Spiegelman, Pantheon, $16.95, 9780394747231
3. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $15.99, 9780060959470
4. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
5. Educated: A Memoir (An Indies Introduce Title)- Debut
Tara Westover, Random House, $18.99, 9780399590528
6. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Joan Didion, Vintage, $16, 9780593312193
7. Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Art Spiegelman, Pantheon, $16.95, 9780679729778
8. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.), Parallax Press, $9.95, 9781937006884
9. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $17, 9781400078431
10. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles, Random House, $18.99, 9781984855015
11. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797212272
12. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together- Debut
Heather McGhee, One World, $18, 9780525509585
13. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316299220
14. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake, Random House, $18, 9780525510321
15. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
On the Rise:
18. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain (Eds.), One World, $20, 9780593449349
A unique one-volume “community” history of African Americans. Editors Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span.
MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593438367
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
3. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129
4. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
5. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $11, 9780399501487
6. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062836977
7. Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345409874
8. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
9. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
10. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $7.99, 9780440180296
EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE READERS
1. Stuntboy, in the Meantime
Jason Reynolds, Raúl the Third (Illus.), Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $13.99, 9781534418165
2. Super Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $14.99, 9781338714128
3. Daughter of the Deep
Rick Riordan, Disney-Hyperion, $19.99, 9781368077927
4. Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations #1)
B.B. Alston, Balzer + Bray, $8.99, 9780062975171
5. New Kid
Jerry Craft, Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062691194
6. The Awakening Storm: A Graphic Novel (City of Dragons #1)
Jaimal Yogis, Vivian Truong (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338660425
7. Friends Forever
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250317568
8. Out of My Heart
Sharon M. Draper, Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $18.99, 9781665902168
9. Pony
R.J. Palacio, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780553508116
10. A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Greenwillow Books, $7.99, 9780062895943
11. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264
12. Hooky
Míriam Bonastre Tur, Clarion Books, $12.99, 9780358468295
13. When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, Dial Books, $12.99, 9780525553908
14. Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Raina Telgemeier (Illus.), Scholastic, $12.99, 9781338801897
15. Cornbread & Poppy
Matthew Cordell, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $6.99, 9780759554863
YOUNG ADULT
1. I Must Betray You
Ruta Sepetys, Philomel Books, $18.99, 9781984836038
2. Anatomy: A Love Story
Dana Schwartz, Wednesday Books, $18.99, 9781250774156
3. Firekeeper’s Daughter
Angeline Boulley, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $18.99, 9781250766564
4. Legendborn (An Indies Introduce Title)
Tracy Deonn, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $13.99, 9781534441613
5. They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera, Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062457806
6. Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao, Penguin Teen, $17.99, 9780735269934
7. Northwind
Gary Paulsen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99, 9780374314200
8. This Woven Kingdom
Tahereh Mafi, Harper, $19.99, 9780062972446
9. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $17.99, 9781524714680
10. Ain’t Burned All the Bright
Jason Reynolds, Jason Griffin (Illus.), Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $19.99, 9781534439467
11. We Were Liars
E. Lockhart, Ember, $10.99, 9780385741279
12. The Last Cuentista
Donna Barba Higuera, Levine Querido, $17.99, 9781646140893
13. The Girl from the Sea: A Graphic Novel
Molly Knox Ostertag, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338540574
14. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
15. All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
George M. Johnson, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99, 9780374312718
CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED
1. Love You by Heart
Peter H. Reynolds, Orchard Books, $9.99, 9781338783636
2. Little Blue Truck’s Valentine
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780358272441
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
4. Just Help!: How to Build a Better World
Sonia Sotomayor, Angela Dominguez (Illus.), Philomel Books, $17.99, 9780593206263
5. Aaron Slater, Illustrator
Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Abrams, $18.99, 9781419753961
6. Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem
Amanda Gorman, Loren Long (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593203224
7. Love from Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans, Steven Salerno (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780593349830
8. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
9. What Is Love?
Mac Barnett, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $17.99, 9781452176406
10. Woodland Dance!
Sandra Boynton, Workman, $7.95, 9781523514687
11. The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Renée Watson, Nikkolas Smith (Illus.), Kokila, $18.99, 9780593307359
12. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
13. A Unicorn Named Sparkle and the Perfect Valentine- Debut
Amy Young, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18.99, 9780374314224
14. Love From the Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $8.99, 9780448489322
15. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $19.95, 9780060254926
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. Baby-Sitters Club Graphix (hardcover and paperback)
Ann M. Martin, Gabriela Epstein (Illus.), Scholastic
4. Elephant and Piggie (hardcover)
Mo Willems, Hyperion
5. The Bad Guys (paperback)
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic
6. The Princess in Black (hardcover and paperback)
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick
7. Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback)
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books
8. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
9. Dog Man (hardcover)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
10. Cat Kid Comic Club (hardcover)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
