Indie Bestsellers for the Week of

April 15, 2025

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Say You'll Remember Me
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $28, 9781538759196
2. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
3. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
4. Audition- Debut
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323
5. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
6. Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181
7. Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $32, 9780593802724
8. Heartwood
Amity Gaige, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668063606
9. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
10. The Sirens
Emilia Hart, St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250280824
11. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
12. The Maid's Secret- Debut
Nita Prose, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593875414
13. Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374172
14. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
15. Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649377159

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. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
3. Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525426059
4. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
5. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Flatiron Books, $32.99, 9781250391230
6. Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
Michael Lewis (Ed.), Riverhead Books, $30, 9798217047802
7. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
8. Everything Is Tuberculosis (Standard Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
9. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
10. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
11. Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir- Debut
Mark Hoppus, Dan Ozzi, Dey Street Books, $32.50, 9780063318915
12. The Tell: A Memoir
Amy Griffin, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593731208
13. Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
Elaine Pagels, Doubleday, $30, 9780385547468
14. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
15. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
2. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
3. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
4. Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $19, 9780063327535
5. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
6. Table for Two: Fictions- Debut
Amor Towles, Penguin Books, $19, 9780593296394
7. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
8. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
9. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Vintage, $19, 9780593314487
10. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
11. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
12. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
13. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
14. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006
15. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
4. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
5. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
6. A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797232751
7. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
8. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
9. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208
10. Sociopath: A Memoir- Debut
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190
11. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
12. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
13. On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Nora Krug (Illus.), Ten Speed Graphic, $16.99, 9781984859150
14. A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $22.99, 9780062397348
15. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310

EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE

1. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
2. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234
3. A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133
4. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
5. One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe- Debut
Dara Horn, Theo Ellsworth (Illus.), Norton Young Readers, $18.99, 9781324082132
6. Rebellion 1776
Laurie Halse Anderson, Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $18.99, 9781416968269
7. The Lost Library
Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250838834
8. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264
9. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780062991324
10. A Song for You and I: A Graphic Novel
K. O'Neill, Random House Graphic, $13.99, 9780593182307
11. The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315
12. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
13. Bluey 5-Minute Stories: 6 Stories in 1 Book? Hooray!
Penguin Young Readers, $14.99, 9780593521908
14. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
15. Besties: Prank War
Kayla Miller, Sarah K. Turner (Illus.), Jeffrey Canino, Clarion Books, $15.99, 9780063285590

YOUNG ADULT

1. Wings of Starlight
Allison Saft, Disney Press, $18.99, 9781368098458
2. Our Infinite Fates (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Laura Steven, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250333889
3. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
4. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
5. Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, Anna Bond (Illus.), Puffin Books, $17, 9780593622452
6. Rebel Witch: The Crimson Moth: Book 2
Kristen Ciccarelli, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250866929
7. If Only I Had Told Her
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $12.99, 9781728276229
8. Heartless Hunter: The Crimson Moth: Book 1
Kristen Ciccarelli, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250866905
9. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544340688
10. Clown in a Cornfield Movie Tie-in Edition- Debut
Adam Cesare, HarperCollins, $15.99, 9780063454439
11. Run Away With Me
Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press, $24.99, 9781339035529
12. Under the Same Stars
Libba Bray, Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR, $24.99, 9780374388942
13. The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
14. Nothing Like the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665947138
15. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

1. Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063387843
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
4. Don't Trust Fish- Debut
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673
5. Little Blue Truck's Springtime
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9780544938090
6. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
7. Will the Pigeon Graduate?
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454960430
8. Richard Scarry's Bunnies- Debut
Richard Scarry, Golden Books, $6.99, 9780593899151
9. Grumpy Monkey Mom for a Day
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $12.99, 9780593709313
10. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801
11. The Easter Bunny Hunt (Peter Rabbit)
Beatrix Potter, Warne, $9.99, 9780241716472
12. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
13. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
14. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
15. I Am Glinda (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896884

CHILDREN'S SERIES

1. The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press
2. New Series: The Powerless Trilogy (hardcover)
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
New in Series: Fearless (9781665955461)
3. Dog Man (hardcover)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover)
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams
5. Wings of Fire (hardcover and paperback)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic
6. The Wild Robot (hardcover and paperback)
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
7. Elephant & Piggie (hardcover)
Mo Willems, Hyperion
8. InvestiGators (hardcover)
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second
9. New Series: Warriors Graphic Novels (hardcover and paperback)
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley
New in Series: The Prophecies Begin, #2 (9780063203907)
10. I Survived (hardcover and paperback)
Lauren Tarshis, Karen De la Vega (Illus.), Scholastic

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