For the week ending September 17th, 2023, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers Browse All See all items 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: 2 Weeks on list: 7 New Release The Vaster Wilds: A Novel Lauren Groff Current price: $28.00 A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive. The #1 Indie Next Pick for September 2023. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 The Fraud: A Novel Zadie Smith Current price: $29.00 From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who gets to be believed. A September 2023 Indie Next List Pick. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 2 Holly Stephen King Current price: $30.00 Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 2 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: 4 Weeks on list: 48 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: 5 Weeks on list: 6 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: 8 Weeks on list: 17 Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel Bonnie Garmus Current price: $29.00 Funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist. An April 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: * The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Abraham Verghese Current price: $32.00 Verghese's new novel is a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. A May 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 20 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel Gabrielle Zevin Current price: $28.00 The exhilarating new novel by the bestselling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is the #1 Indie Next Pick for July 2022. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: * The River We Remember: A Novel William Kent Krueger Current price: $28.99 The River We Remember is an unflinching look at the wounds left by the wars we fight abroad and at home, a moving exploration of the ways in which we seek to heal, and a testament to the enduring power of the stories we tell about the places we call home. A September 2023 Indie Next List Pick. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 2 New Release Rouge: A Novel Mona Awad Current price: $28.00 A horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. A September 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Yellowface: A Reese's Book Club Pick R. F. Kuang Current price: $30.00 Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R. F. Kuang's novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable. The #1 Indie Next Pick for June 2023. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 18 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: 12 Weeks on list: 39 What You Are Looking for Is in the Library Michiko Aoyama Current price: $21.99 For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a reader's life. Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: 2 Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers Browse All See all items New Release Elon Musk Walter Isaacson Current price: $35.00 An astonishingly intimate biography of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 New Release Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier Arthur C. Brooks, Oprah Winfrey Current price: $30.00 Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. They show you how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the outside world to change. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 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: 22 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: 35 New Release Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World Naomi Klein Current price: $30.00 Doppelganger asks: What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel now--and an intellectual adventure story for our times. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 New Release To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lindsey Nyx Walker Current price: $30.00 This enlightening illustrated narrative by the world's most celebrated astrophysicist explains the universe from the solar system to the farthest reaches of space with authority and humor. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity Peter Attia, MD Current price: $32.00 A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 25 Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments Joe Posnanski Current price: $29.00 Bestselling author Joe Posnanski is back with a masterful ode to the game: a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseballÂ’s history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 2 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: 9 Weeks on list: * The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession Michael Finkel Current price: $28.00 This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost. The #1 Indie Next Pick for July 2023. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 12 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: 5 Weeks on list: * Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere Maria Bamford Current price: $28.99 Singular and inimitable, BamfordÂ’s memoir explores what it means to keep going, and to be a member of society (or any group sheÂ’s invited to) despite not being very good at it. In turn, she hopes to transform isolating experiences into comedy that will make you feel less alone (without turning into a cult following). Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 2 Poverty, by America Matthew Desmond Current price: $28.00 Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 26 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: 10 Weeks on list: * Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury Drew Gilpin Faust Current price: $30.00 Drew Gilpin Faust's memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 3 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: 2 Weeks on list: * 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: 1 Weeks on list: 20 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel Taylor Jenkins Reid Current price: $17.00 Reid's novel is a mesmerizing journey through the splendor of old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: * Mad Honey: A Novel Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan Current price: $18.00 A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past and what we choose to leave behind. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 2 Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution R. F. Kuang Current price: $20.00 Kuang's breathtaking novel grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 3 The Midnight Library: 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: 5 Weeks on list: 19 It Ends with Us: A Novel Colleen Hoover Current price: $16.99 In Hoover's honest, evocative, and tender novel, a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance can't stop thinking about her first love. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: * Our Missing Hearts: A Novel Celeste Ng Current price: $18.00 Ng's inspiring novel about a mother's unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 4 New Release Lucy by the Sea: A Novel Elizabeth Strout Current price: $18.00 Strout's poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown--and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 New Release Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Series #3) Tamsyn Muir Current price: $19.99 Muir's bestselling Locked Tomb series continues with Nona the Ninth. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Assistant to the Villain Hannah Nicole Maehrer Current price: $19.99 Maehrer's laugh-out-loud viral TikTok series turned novel, about the sunshine assistant to an Evil Villain...and their unexpected romance. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 3 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: 12 Weeks on list: 4 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: NEW Weeks on list: 27 The Song of Achilles: A Novel Madeline Miller Current price: $17.99 Miller's monumental debut novel is an action-packed adventure and epic love story that brilliantly re-imagines Homer's enduring masterwork, The Iliad. Rank last week: 15 Weeks on list: * The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides Current price: $17.99 A gripping psychological thriller about a woman's act of violence against her husband--and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: * Trade Paperback Nonfiction Bestsellers Browse All See all items Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann Current price: $17.00 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: * Braiding Sweetgrass 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: * 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: 3 Weeks on list: 3 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: 2 Weeks on list: 13 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: 7 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: 5 Weeks on list: 25 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: 6 Weeks on list: * New Release Stay True: A Memoir Hua Hsu Current price: $17.00 From The New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 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: 9 Weeks on list: 15 The 2024 Old Farmer's Almanac Old Farmer’s Almanac Current price: $9.95 The annual almanac of weather, astrology, calendars, gardening tips, home remedies, and more all presented in the inimitably useful and humorous way it has done since 1792. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 3 Happy-Go-Lucky David Sedaris Current price: $18.99 David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 16 New Release Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America Pekka Hämäläinen Current price: $22.00 Necessary reading for anyone who cares about America's past, present, and future, Indigenous Continent restores Native peoples to their rightful place at the very fulcrum of American history. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 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: 11 Weeks on list: * Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know Malcolm Gladwell Current price: $18.99 Gladwell offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong. Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: * The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition Julia Cameron Current price: $19.00 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: 13 Weeks on list: 3 Mass Market Bestsellers Browse All See all items 1984 George Orwell Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: * The Boys from Biloxi: A Legal Thriller John Grisham Current price: $10.99 Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 4 A Haunting in Venice [Movie Tie-in]: Originally Published as Hallowe'en Party: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) Agatha Christie Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 4 No Plan B: A Jack Reacher Novel Lee Child, Andrew Child Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 11 Dune (Movie Tie-In) Frank Herbert Current price: $10.99 Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: * Billy Summers Stephen King Current price: $11.99 Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 12 The Wish Nicholas Sparks Current price: $10.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Sparring Partners John Grisham Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 6 American Gods [TV Tie-In]: A Novel Neil Gaiman Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: * The Judge's List: A Novel (The Whistler #2) John Grisham Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 14 Children's Illustrated Bestsellers Browse All See all items Room on the Broom Push-Pull-Slide Julia Donaldson Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 29 New Release Just Because Matthew McConaughey Current price: $19.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Boo! Bluey's Halloween: A Magnet Book Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $14.99 Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: 2 Goodnight Moon Board Book Margaret Wise Brown Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: * Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography Wendy Loggia Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 20 Peekaboo: Pumpkin (Peekaboo You) Camilla Reid Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Bruce and the Legend of Soggy Hollow (Mother Bruce Series) Ryan T. Higgins Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Eek! Halloween! (Boynton on Board) Sandra Boynton Current price: $7.99 Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: 2 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Current price: $10.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: * Little Blue Truck's Halloween: A Halloween Book for Kids Alice Schertle Current price: $13.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 48 Bluey: Sleepytime Joe Brumm Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Discounted Where the Wild Things Are: A Caldecott Award Winner Maurice Sendak Previous price: $21.99 Current price: $19.95 Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: * Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh! Mo Willems Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Spooky Pookie (Little Pookie) Sandra Boynton Current price: $6.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 8 Grumpy Monkey Don't Be Scared Suzanne Lang Current price: $10.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Children's Interest Bestsellers Browse All See all items Room on the Broom Push-Pull-Slide Julia Donaldson Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 29 New Release Just Because Matthew McConaughey Current price: $19.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Hooky Volume 3 MÃriam Bonastre Tur Current price: $15.99 Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 2 Boo! Bluey's Halloween: A Magnet Book Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $14.99 Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: 2 Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography Wendy Loggia Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 20 Goodnight Moon Board Book Margaret Wise Brown Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: * The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale Jon Klassen Current price: $19.99 Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 10 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) (The Hunger Games) Suzanne Collins Current price: $16.99 Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 7 The Summer I Turned Pretty Jenny Han Current price: $11.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 34 Peekaboo: Pumpkin (Peekaboo You) Camilla Reid Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Divine Rivals: A Novel (Letters of Enchantment #1) Rebecca Ross Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: 2 Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea: A Graphic Novel (Dog Man #11): From the Creator of Captain Underpants Dav Pilkey Current price: $14.99 Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 25 The Lost Library Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass Current price: $17.99 Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: 3 The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games #4) Jennifer Lynn Barnes Current price: $19.99 Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 3 The Spirit Bares Its Teeth Andrew Joseph White Current price: $19.99 Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 2
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: 2 Weeks on list: 7
New Release The Vaster Wilds: A Novel Lauren Groff Current price: $28.00 A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive. The #1 Indie Next Pick for September 2023. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
The Fraud: A Novel Zadie Smith Current price: $29.00 From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who gets to be believed. A September 2023 Indie Next List Pick. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 2
Holly Stephen King Current price: $30.00 Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 2
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: 4 Weeks on list: 48
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: 5 Weeks on list: 6
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: 8 Weeks on list: 17
Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel Bonnie Garmus Current price: $29.00 Funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist. An April 2022 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: *
The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Abraham Verghese Current price: $32.00 Verghese's new novel is a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. A May 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 20
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel Gabrielle Zevin Current price: $28.00 The exhilarating new novel by the bestselling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is the #1 Indie Next Pick for July 2022. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: *
The River We Remember: A Novel William Kent Krueger Current price: $28.99 The River We Remember is an unflinching look at the wounds left by the wars we fight abroad and at home, a moving exploration of the ways in which we seek to heal, and a testament to the enduring power of the stories we tell about the places we call home. A September 2023 Indie Next List Pick. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 2
New Release Rouge: A Novel Mona Awad Current price: $28.00 A horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. A September 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
Yellowface: A Reese's Book Club Pick R. F. Kuang Current price: $30.00 Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R. F. Kuang's novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable. The #1 Indie Next Pick for June 2023. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 18
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: 12 Weeks on list: 39
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library Michiko Aoyama Current price: $21.99 For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a reader's life. Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: 2
New Release Elon Musk Walter Isaacson Current price: $35.00 An astonishingly intimate biography of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
New Release Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier Arthur C. Brooks, Oprah Winfrey Current price: $30.00 Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. They show you how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the outside world to change. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
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: 22
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: 35
New Release Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World Naomi Klein Current price: $30.00 Doppelganger asks: What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel now--and an intellectual adventure story for our times. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
New Release To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lindsey Nyx Walker Current price: $30.00 This enlightening illustrated narrative by the world's most celebrated astrophysicist explains the universe from the solar system to the farthest reaches of space with authority and humor. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity Peter Attia, MD Current price: $32.00 A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health. Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 25
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments Joe Posnanski Current price: $29.00 Bestselling author Joe Posnanski is back with a masterful ode to the game: a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseballÂ’s history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 2
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: 9 Weeks on list: *
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession Michael Finkel Current price: $28.00 This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost. The #1 Indie Next Pick for July 2023. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 12
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: 5 Weeks on list: *
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere Maria Bamford Current price: $28.99 Singular and inimitable, BamfordÂ’s memoir explores what it means to keep going, and to be a member of society (or any group sheÂ’s invited to) despite not being very good at it. In turn, she hopes to transform isolating experiences into comedy that will make you feel less alone (without turning into a cult following). Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 2
Poverty, by America Matthew Desmond Current price: $28.00 Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 26
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: 10 Weeks on list: *
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury Drew Gilpin Faust Current price: $30.00 Drew Gilpin Faust's memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 3
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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: 1 Weeks on list: 20
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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution R. F. Kuang Current price: $20.00 Kuang's breathtaking novel grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 3
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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: NEW Weeks on list: 27
The Song of Achilles: A Novel Madeline Miller Current price: $17.99 Miller's monumental debut novel is an action-packed adventure and epic love story that brilliantly re-imagines Homer's enduring masterwork, The Iliad. Rank last week: 15 Weeks on list: *
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Braiding Sweetgrass 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: *
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: 3 Weeks on list: 3
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: 2 Weeks on list: 13
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: 7 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: 5 Weeks on list: 25
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: 6 Weeks on list: *
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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: 9 Weeks on list: 15
The 2024 Old Farmer's Almanac Old Farmer’s Almanac Current price: $9.95 The annual almanac of weather, astrology, calendars, gardening tips, home remedies, and more all presented in the inimitably useful and humorous way it has done since 1792. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 3
Happy-Go-Lucky David Sedaris Current price: $18.99 David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 16
New Release Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America Pekka Hämäläinen Current price: $22.00 Necessary reading for anyone who cares about America's past, present, and future, Indigenous Continent restores Native peoples to their rightful place at the very fulcrum of American history. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
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: 11 Weeks on list: *
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