Indie Bestsellers HARDCOVER for week ending 8/31/25
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition)- Debut
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $35, 9780063021471
2. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
3. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
4. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
5. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
6. Hemlock & Silver
T. Kingfisher, Tor Books, $28.99, 9781250342034
7. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
8. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247
9. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
10. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
Indie Bestsellers Paperback for week ending 8/31/25
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
3. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
4. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
5. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
6. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
7. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
8. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
9. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
10. The Surrogate Mother
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464227301
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. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
4. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288
5. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
6. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
7. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
8. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
9. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
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
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
4. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
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. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
8. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World- Debut
Anne Applebaum, Vintage, $18, 9780593471203
9. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
10. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651