For the week ending March 24th, 2024, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers Browse All See all items New Release James: A Novel Percival Everett Current price: $28.00 Percival Everett's new novel is a brilliant, action-packed re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. The #1 Indie Next Pick for April 2024. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 The Women: A Novel Kristin Hannah Current price: $30.00 The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on the story of all women who put themselves in harm's way to help others. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 7 The Hunter: A Novel Tana French Current price: $32.00 Tana French's new novel is a nuanced, atmospheric tale that explores what we'll do for our loved ones, what we'll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide. A March 2024 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 3 Wandering Stars: A novel Tommy Orange Current price: $29.00 Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange's monumental gifts. March 2024's #1 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 4 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel James McBride Current price: $28.00 Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird. An August 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 33 Discounted Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Read with Jenna Pick Shelby Van Pelt Previous price: $29.99 Current price: $27.99 A charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. A May 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: * Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1) Rebecca Yarros Current price: $29.99 Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from bestselling author Rebecca Yarros. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 44 North Woods: A Novel Daniel Mason Current price: $28.00 When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An October 2023 Indie Next List Pick. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 22 Iron Flame (The Empyrean #2) Rebecca Yarros Current price: $29.99 She's survived her first year at Basgiath War College for dragon riders...but the danger is just beginning in the electrifying follow-up to Fourth Wing. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 20 New Release Expiration Dates: A Novel Rebecca Serle Current price: $27.00 A gripping, emotional, passionate, and heartbreaking novel about what it means to be single, what it means to find love, and ultimately how we define each of them for ourselves. An April 2024 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner Barbara Kingsolver Current price: $32.50 Kingsolver's brilliant novel enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. A November 2022 Indie Next Pick and a winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: * A Fate Inked in Blood: Book One of the Saga of the Unfated Danielle L. Jensen Current price: $29.99 A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king—while fighting her growing desire for his fiery son—in the first book of a Norse-inspired fantasy romance duology from the bestselling author of The Bridge Kingdom series. A March 2024 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 4 Martyr!: A novel Kaveh Akbar Current price: $28.00 A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction. A February 2024 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 9 Tom Lake: A Reese's Book Club Pick Ann Patchett Current price: $30.00 In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers. An August 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: 34 Until August: A novel Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez Current price: $22.00 The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude—a moving tale of female desire and abandon. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 2 Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers Browse All See all items The Creative Act: A Way of Being Rick Rubin Current price: $32.00 From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: * The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann Current price: $30.00 The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by David Grann, one of our greatest nonfiction writers. A May 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 49 Reading Genesis Marilynne Robinson Current price: $29.00 One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 2 Grief Is for People Sloane Crosley Current price: $27.00 A modern elegy, it rises precisely to console and challenge our notions of mourning during these grief-stricken times. A March 2024 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 4 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones James Clear Current price: $27.00 James Clear reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: * Burn Book: A Tech Love Story Kara Swisher Current price: $30.00 From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 4 The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir RuPaul Current price: $29.99 From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 3 How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen David Brooks Current price: $30.00 A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 22 Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection Charles Duhigg Current price: $30.00 From the bestselling author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 5 New Release Who's Afraid of Gender? Judith Butler Current price: $30.00 An essential intervention into one of the most fraught issues of our moment, Who's Afraid of Gender? is a bold call for coalition building between all of those struggling against injustice. Imagining new possibilities for both freedom and solidarity, Butler offers us a hopeful work of social and political analysis that is both timely and timeless--a book whose verve and rigor only they could deliver. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy Current price: $27.99 A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: * Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere Savannah Guthrie Current price: $29.99 Unspooling personal stories from her own joys and sorrows as a daughter, mother, wife, friend, and professional journalist, the award-winning TODAY show co-anchor and New York Times bestselling author explores the place of faith in everyday life. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 2 New Release Secrets of the Octopus Sy Montgomery, Warren K. Carlyle, IV Current price: $30.00 With this offering, acclaimed author Sy Montgomery returns to the species she knows and loves, offering current and compassionate stories about the scientists on the front lines of octopus research and conservation. An April 2024 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy Current price: $22.99 Radiant with Mackesy's warmth and gentle wit, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse blends hand-written narrative with dozens of drawings. Rank last week: 15 Weeks on list: * The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year Margaret Renkl Current price: $32.00 From the bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a luminous book that traces the passing of seasons, personal and natural. A November 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: 22 Trade Paperback Fiction Bestsellers Browse All See all items Discounted A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J. Maas Previous price: $19.00 Current price: $18.00 From bestselling author Sarah J. Maas comes a seductive, breathtaking book that blends romance, adventure, and faerie lore into an unforgettable read. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: * Dune (Movie Tie-In) Frank Herbert Current price: $18.00 Herbert's classic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination--is now a major motion picture. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 32 Happy Place Emily Henry Current price: $19.00 Emily Henry's novel about a couple who broke up months ago and pretend they're still together for an annual, week-long vacation with their best friends. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 3 Bride Ali Hazelwood Current price: $19.00 A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. The #1 Indie Next Pick for February 2024. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 7 Discounted A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses #2) Sarah J. Maas Previous price: $19.00 Current price: $18.00 The seductive and stunning sequel to Sarah J. Maas's spellbinding A Court of Thorns and Roses. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 29 Horse: A Novel Geraldine Brooks Current price: $19.00 Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 10 Discounted A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses #3) Sarah J. Maas Previous price: $19.00 Current price: $18.00 The epic third novel in the bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas. Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: 12 The Three-Body Problem (The Three-Body Problem Series #1) Cixin Liu Current price: $18.99 Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara Current price: $18.00 Yanagihara's astonishing novel about love and friendship in the 21st century was a March 2015 Indie Next Pick and a National Book Award finalist. Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: 48 Throne of Glass Sarah J. Maas Current price: $19.00 Enter the world of Throne of Glass with the first book in the bestselling series by Sarah J. Maas. Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: 10 Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone: A Murdery Mystery Novel Benjamin Stevenson Current price: $18.99 Knives Out and Clue meet Agatha Christie and The Thursday Murder Club in this fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 12 Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Hernan Diaz Current price: $17.00 Trust is an unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception. A May 2022 Indie Next Pick and a winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 46 The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) Matt Haig Current price: $18.00 Haig's book is a dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 45 Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) Jenny Jackson Current price: $18.00 A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn family. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 2 A Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses #5) Sarah J. Maas Current price: $19.00 Sarah J. Maas's sexy, richly imagined A Court of Thorns and Roses series continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery sister, Nesta. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 9 Trade Paperback Nonfiction Bestsellers Browse All See all items Killers of the Flower Moon (Movie Tie-in Edition): The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann Current price: $18.00 Grann's twisting and haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 24 Discounted The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 Rashid Khalidi Previous price: $19.99 Current price: $18.99 A history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 22 All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1) bell hooks Current price: $16.99 All About Love is a revelation about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: * Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer Current price: $20.00 Drawing on her life as an Indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: * The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. Current price: $19.00 van der Kolk transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: * Crying in H Mart: A Memoir Michelle Zauner Current price: $17.00 From the indie rock star of Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 52 Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir Dolly Alderton Current price: $18.99 A wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride. Now streaming on Peacock. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 16 The Boys in the Boat (Movie Tie-In): Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Daniel James Brown Current price: $19.00 Brown tells the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Now a major motion picture. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: * Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues Jonathan Kennedy Current price: $20.00 Jonathan Kennedy's account of how the major transformations in history--from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism--have been shaped not by humans but by germs. Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: 2 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book #1) Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills Current price: $12.95 A practical guide to personal freedom, outlining a way of life rooted in traditional Toltec beliefs. Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: * Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships Nina Totenberg Current price: $18.99 Nina Totenberg's extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly 50 years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 2 Solito: A Memoir Javier Zamora Current price: $18.00 A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this moving, page-turning memoir. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 34 Discounted The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition Julia Cameron Previous price: $19.00 Current price: $17.00 A revolutionary program for personal renewal, The Artist's Way will help get you back on track, rediscover your passions, and take the steps you need to change your life. Rank last week: 15 Weeks on list: 12 An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Ed Yong Current price: $20.00 Every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. In An Immense World, science journalist Ed Yong helps us to experience the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that other animals perceive. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 28 American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin Current price: $25.00 A deep, fantastic look at the complex physicist and father of the atomic bomb. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 27 Mass Market Bestsellers Browse All See all items Dune (Movie Tie-In) Frank Herbert Current price: $10.99 Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: * Dune Messiah Frank Herbert Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: * Children of Dune Frank Herbert Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 32 1984: 75th Anniversary George Orwell Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: * Discounted The Way of Kings: Book One of the Stormlight Archive Brandon Sanderson Previous price: $11.99 Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: * Discounted Mistborn: The Final Empire (The Mistborn Saga #1) Brandon Sanderson Previous price: $10.99 Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: * God Emperor of Dune Frank Herbert Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 7 Good Omens [TV Tie-in]: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: * Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition George Orwell Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: * Children's Illustrated Bestsellers Browse All See all items Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography Wendy Loggia Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 46 Bluey: Hooray, It's Easter!: A Lift-the-Flap Book Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 4 Discounted Goodnight Moon Board Book Margaret Wise Brown Previous price: $10.99 Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: * The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Current price: $10.99 Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: * Grumpy Monkey Spring Fever: Includes Fun Stickers and Hidden Easter Eggs! Suzanne Lang Current price: $11.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Bluey: Easter Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 5 Buffalo Fluffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story) Bess Kalb Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 10 Pat the Bunny: An Easter Basket Stuffer for Babies and Toddlers (Touch-and-Feel) Dorothy Kunhardt Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: * Discounted Where the Wild Things Are: A Caldecott Award Winner Maurice Sendak Previous price: $21.99 Current price: $19.95 Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: * Bluey: Butterflies Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Bear Finds Eggs (The Bear Books) Karma Wilson Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 2 Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten Michelle Knudsen Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 3 Dragon's First Taco (from the creators of Dragons Love Tacos) Adam Rubin Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 24 Little Blue Truck's Springtime: An Easter And Springtime Book For Kids Alice Schertle Current price: $13.99 Rank last week: 15 Weeks on list: 34 Spot's First Easter: A Lift-the-Flap Easter Classic Eric Hill Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Children's Interest Bestsellers Browse All See all items New Release Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder: A Graphic Novel (Dog Man #12): From the Creator of Captain Underpants Dav Pilkey Current price: $14.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography Wendy Loggia Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 46 Waverider: A Graphic Novel (Amulet #9) Kazu Kibuishi Current price: $14.99 Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 7 Bluey: Hooray, It's Easter!: A Lift-the-Flap Book Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 4 The Wild Robot Peter Brown Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 5 If He Had Been with Me Laura Nowlin Current price: $10.99 Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 3 No Brainer (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 18) Jeff Kinney Current price: $14.99 Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 22 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Holly Jackson Current price: $10.99 Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: * Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers: A Graphic Novel (Cat Kid Comic Club #5): From the Creator of Dog Man Dav Pilkey Current price: $12.99 Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 17 Evil Spy School the Graphic Novel Stuart Gibbs Current price: $14.99 Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 3 Discounted Goodnight Moon Board Book Margaret Wise Brown Previous price: $10.99 Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: * Grumpy Monkey Spring Fever: Includes Fun Stickers and Hidden Easter Eggs! Suzanne Lang Current price: $11.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Bluey: Easter Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 5 InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: From Badger to Worse John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings Current price: $12.99 Note: Mark this title as New in Series if InvestiGators is a top ten series on the 2/27 IBL Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 5 Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One: The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians #1) Rick Riordan Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: 13
New Release James: A Novel Percival Everett Current price: $28.00 Percival Everett's new novel is a brilliant, action-packed re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. The #1 Indie Next Pick for April 2024. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
The Women: A Novel Kristin Hannah Current price: $30.00 The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on the story of all women who put themselves in harm's way to help others. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 7
The Hunter: A Novel Tana French Current price: $32.00 Tana French's new novel is a nuanced, atmospheric tale that explores what we'll do for our loved ones, what we'll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide. A March 2024 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 3
Wandering Stars: A novel Tommy Orange Current price: $29.00 Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange's monumental gifts. March 2024's #1 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 4
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel James McBride Current price: $28.00 Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird. An August 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 33
Discounted Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Read with Jenna Pick Shelby Van Pelt Previous price: $29.99 Current price: $27.99 A charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. A May 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: *
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1) Rebecca Yarros Current price: $29.99 Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from bestselling author Rebecca Yarros. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 44
North Woods: A Novel Daniel Mason Current price: $28.00 When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An October 2023 Indie Next List Pick. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 22
Iron Flame (The Empyrean #2) Rebecca Yarros Current price: $29.99 She's survived her first year at Basgiath War College for dragon riders...but the danger is just beginning in the electrifying follow-up to Fourth Wing. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 20
New Release Expiration Dates: A Novel Rebecca Serle Current price: $27.00 A gripping, emotional, passionate, and heartbreaking novel about what it means to be single, what it means to find love, and ultimately how we define each of them for ourselves. An April 2024 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner Barbara Kingsolver Current price: $32.50 Kingsolver's brilliant novel enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. A November 2022 Indie Next Pick and a winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: *
A Fate Inked in Blood: Book One of the Saga of the Unfated Danielle L. Jensen Current price: $29.99 A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king—while fighting her growing desire for his fiery son—in the first book of a Norse-inspired fantasy romance duology from the bestselling author of The Bridge Kingdom series. A March 2024 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 4
Martyr!: A novel Kaveh Akbar Current price: $28.00 A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction. A February 2024 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 9
Tom Lake: A Reese's Book Club Pick Ann Patchett Current price: $30.00 In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers. An August 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: 34
Until August: A novel Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez Current price: $22.00 The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude—a moving tale of female desire and abandon. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 2
The Creative Act: A Way of Being Rick Rubin Current price: $32.00 From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: *
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann Current price: $30.00 The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by David Grann, one of our greatest nonfiction writers. A May 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 49
Reading Genesis Marilynne Robinson Current price: $29.00 One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 2
Grief Is for People Sloane Crosley Current price: $27.00 A modern elegy, it rises precisely to console and challenge our notions of mourning during these grief-stricken times. A March 2024 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 4
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones James Clear Current price: $27.00 James Clear reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: *
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story Kara Swisher Current price: $30.00 From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 4
The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir RuPaul Current price: $29.99 From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 3
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen David Brooks Current price: $30.00 A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 22
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection Charles Duhigg Current price: $30.00 From the bestselling author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 5
New Release Who's Afraid of Gender? Judith Butler Current price: $30.00 An essential intervention into one of the most fraught issues of our moment, Who's Afraid of Gender? is a bold call for coalition building between all of those struggling against injustice. Imagining new possibilities for both freedom and solidarity, Butler offers us a hopeful work of social and political analysis that is both timely and timeless--a book whose verve and rigor only they could deliver. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy Current price: $27.99 A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: *
Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere Savannah Guthrie Current price: $29.99 Unspooling personal stories from her own joys and sorrows as a daughter, mother, wife, friend, and professional journalist, the award-winning TODAY show co-anchor and New York Times bestselling author explores the place of faith in everyday life. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 2
New Release Secrets of the Octopus Sy Montgomery, Warren K. Carlyle, IV Current price: $30.00 With this offering, acclaimed author Sy Montgomery returns to the species she knows and loves, offering current and compassionate stories about the scientists on the front lines of octopus research and conservation. An April 2024 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy Current price: $22.99 Radiant with Mackesy's warmth and gentle wit, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse blends hand-written narrative with dozens of drawings. Rank last week: 15 Weeks on list: *
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year Margaret Renkl Current price: $32.00 From the bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a luminous book that traces the passing of seasons, personal and natural. A November 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: 22
Discounted A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J. Maas Previous price: $19.00 Current price: $18.00 From bestselling author Sarah J. Maas comes a seductive, breathtaking book that blends romance, adventure, and faerie lore into an unforgettable read. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: *
Dune (Movie Tie-In) Frank Herbert Current price: $18.00 Herbert's classic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination--is now a major motion picture. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 32
Happy Place Emily Henry Current price: $19.00 Emily Henry's novel about a couple who broke up months ago and pretend they're still together for an annual, week-long vacation with their best friends. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 3
Bride Ali Hazelwood Current price: $19.00 A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. The #1 Indie Next Pick for February 2024. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 7
Discounted A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses #2) Sarah J. Maas Previous price: $19.00 Current price: $18.00 The seductive and stunning sequel to Sarah J. Maas's spellbinding A Court of Thorns and Roses. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 29
Horse: A Novel Geraldine Brooks Current price: $19.00 Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 10
Discounted A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses #3) Sarah J. Maas Previous price: $19.00 Current price: $18.00 The epic third novel in the bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas. Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: 12
The Three-Body Problem (The Three-Body Problem Series #1) Cixin Liu Current price: $18.99 Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara Current price: $18.00 Yanagihara's astonishing novel about love and friendship in the 21st century was a March 2015 Indie Next Pick and a National Book Award finalist. Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: 48
Throne of Glass Sarah J. Maas Current price: $19.00 Enter the world of Throne of Glass with the first book in the bestselling series by Sarah J. Maas. Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: 10
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone: A Murdery Mystery Novel Benjamin Stevenson Current price: $18.99 Knives Out and Clue meet Agatha Christie and The Thursday Murder Club in this fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 12
Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Hernan Diaz Current price: $17.00 Trust is an unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception. A May 2022 Indie Next Pick and a winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 46
The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) Matt Haig Current price: $18.00 Haig's book is a dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 45
Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) Jenny Jackson Current price: $18.00 A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn family. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 2
A Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses #5) Sarah J. Maas Current price: $19.00 Sarah J. Maas's sexy, richly imagined A Court of Thorns and Roses series continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery sister, Nesta. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 9
Killers of the Flower Moon (Movie Tie-in Edition): The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann Current price: $18.00 Grann's twisting and haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 24
Discounted The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 Rashid Khalidi Previous price: $19.99 Current price: $18.99 A history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 22
All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1) bell hooks Current price: $16.99 All About Love is a revelation about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: *
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer Current price: $20.00 Drawing on her life as an Indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: *
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. Current price: $19.00 van der Kolk transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: *
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir Michelle Zauner Current price: $17.00 From the indie rock star of Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 52
Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir Dolly Alderton Current price: $18.99 A wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride. Now streaming on Peacock. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 16
The Boys in the Boat (Movie Tie-In): Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Daniel James Brown Current price: $19.00 Brown tells the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Now a major motion picture. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: *
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues Jonathan Kennedy Current price: $20.00 Jonathan Kennedy's account of how the major transformations in history--from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism--have been shaped not by humans but by germs. Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: 2
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book #1) Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills Current price: $12.95 A practical guide to personal freedom, outlining a way of life rooted in traditional Toltec beliefs. Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: *
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships Nina Totenberg Current price: $18.99 Nina Totenberg's extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly 50 years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 2
Solito: A Memoir Javier Zamora Current price: $18.00 A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this moving, page-turning memoir. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 34
Discounted The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition Julia Cameron Previous price: $19.00 Current price: $17.00 A revolutionary program for personal renewal, The Artist's Way will help get you back on track, rediscover your passions, and take the steps you need to change your life. Rank last week: 15 Weeks on list: 12
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Ed Yong Current price: $20.00 Every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. In An Immense World, science journalist Ed Yong helps us to experience the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that other animals perceive. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 28
American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin Current price: $25.00 A deep, fantastic look at the complex physicist and father of the atomic bomb. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 27
Discounted The Way of Kings: Book One of the Stormlight Archive Brandon Sanderson Previous price: $11.99 Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: *
Discounted Mistborn: The Final Empire (The Mistborn Saga #1) Brandon Sanderson Previous price: $10.99 Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: *
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: *
Good Omens [TV Tie-in]: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: *
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition George Orwell Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: *
Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography Wendy Loggia Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 46
Bluey: Hooray, It's Easter!: A Lift-the-Flap Book Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 4
Discounted Goodnight Moon Board Book Margaret Wise Brown Previous price: $10.99 Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: *
Grumpy Monkey Spring Fever: Includes Fun Stickers and Hidden Easter Eggs! Suzanne Lang Current price: $11.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
Bluey: Easter Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 5
Buffalo Fluffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story) Bess Kalb Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 10
Pat the Bunny: An Easter Basket Stuffer for Babies and Toddlers (Touch-and-Feel) Dorothy Kunhardt Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: *
Discounted Where the Wild Things Are: A Caldecott Award Winner Maurice Sendak Previous price: $21.99 Current price: $19.95 Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: *
Bluey: Butterflies Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
Bear Finds Eggs (The Bear Books) Karma Wilson Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 2
Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten Michelle Knudsen Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 3
Dragon's First Taco (from the creators of Dragons Love Tacos) Adam Rubin Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 24
Little Blue Truck's Springtime: An Easter And Springtime Book For Kids Alice Schertle Current price: $13.99 Rank last week: 15 Weeks on list: 34
Spot's First Easter: A Lift-the-Flap Easter Classic Eric Hill Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
New Release Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder: A Graphic Novel (Dog Man #12): From the Creator of Captain Underpants Dav Pilkey Current price: $14.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography Wendy Loggia Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 46
Waverider: A Graphic Novel (Amulet #9) Kazu Kibuishi Current price: $14.99 Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 7
Bluey: Hooray, It's Easter!: A Lift-the-Flap Book Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 4
No Brainer (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 18) Jeff Kinney Current price: $14.99 Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 22
Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers: A Graphic Novel (Cat Kid Comic Club #5): From the Creator of Dog Man Dav Pilkey Current price: $12.99 Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 17
Evil Spy School the Graphic Novel Stuart Gibbs Current price: $14.99 Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 3
Discounted Goodnight Moon Board Book Margaret Wise Brown Previous price: $10.99 Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: *
Grumpy Monkey Spring Fever: Includes Fun Stickers and Hidden Easter Eggs! Suzanne Lang Current price: $11.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
Bluey: Easter Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 5
InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: From Badger to Worse John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings Current price: $12.99 Note: Mark this title as New in Series if InvestiGators is a top ten series on the 2/27 IBL Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 5
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One: The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians #1) Rick Riordan Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: 13