For the week ending May 28th, 2023, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers Browse All See all items 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: 2 Weeks on list: 4 Happy Place Emily Henry Current price: $27.00 
Emily Henry's novel about a couple who broke up months ago pretend they're still together for an annual, week-long vacation with their best friends is the #1 Indie Next Pick for May 2023. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 5 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: 3 Weeks on list: 32 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: 4 Weeks on list: * Yellowface: A Novel 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: 5 Weeks on list: 2 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: 7 Weeks on list: 46 The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A novel Tom Hanks Current price: $32.50 From the legendary actor comes a graphic novel about the making of a star-studded, multi-million-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 3 Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Ann Napolitano Current price: $28.00 An exquisite homage to Louisa May Alcott's timeless classic, Little Women, Hello Beautiful is a profoundly moving portrait of what is possible when we choose to love someone not in spite of who they are, but because of it. A March 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 11 The Guest: A Novel Emma Cline Current price: $28.00 Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement. A June 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 2 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: 10 Weeks on list: 23 New Release Rogue Justice: A Thriller (Avery Keene #2) Stacey Abrams Current price: $29.00 Stacey Abrams returns with a riveting and intricately plotted thriller, in which a blackmailed federal judge, a secret court and a brazen murder may lead to an unprecedented national crisis. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 The Postcard Anne Berest Current price: $28.00 Anne Berest's novel is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling. A May 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: 2 New Release The Late Americans: A Novel Brandon Taylor Current price: $28.00 The Booker Prize finalist and widely acclaimed author of Real Life and Filthy Animals returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads. A June 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 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: 15 Weeks on list: 4 Romantic Comedy (Reese's Book Club): A Novel Curtis Sittenfeld Current price: $28.00 In her new novel, Curtis Sittenfeld explores the neurosis-inducing and heart-fluttering wonder of love, while slyly dissecting the social rituals of romance and gender relations in the modern age. An April 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: 8 Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers Browse All See all items 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: 6 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: 19 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: 3 Weeks on list: 10 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: 5 Weeks on list: 42 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: 4 Weeks on list: * 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: 8 Weeks on list: * 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: 13 Weeks on list: 9 New Release Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs Jamie Loftus Current price: $26.99 Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique--comedian Jamie Loftus takes you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveals what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 King: A Life Jonathan Eig Current price: $35.00 In this landmark biography, Jonathan Eig gives us a Martin Luther King Jr. for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history's greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 2 You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir Maggie Smith Current price: $28.00 The bestselling poet and author of Keep Moving offers a lush and heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 7 Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself Luke Russert Current price: $28.99 For anyone uncertain about the direction of their life or unsure of how to move forward after a loss, Look for Me There is a poignant reflection that offers encouragement to examine our choices, take risks, and discover our truest selves. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 2 A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them Timothy Egan Current price: $30.00 Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author Timothy Egan tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 8 New Release On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good Elise Loehnen Current price: $28.00 A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considered "good", revealing how the Seven Deadly Sins still control and distort our lives and illuminating a path toward a more balanced, spiritually complete way to live. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 New Release The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man David Von Drehle Current price: $26.00 One of our nation's most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life in the centenarian next door. A June 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Stay True: A Memoir Hua Hsu Current price: $26.00 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. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 2 Trade Paperback Fiction Bestsellers Browse All See all items Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Hernan Diaz Current price: $17.00 Diaz's book 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: 2 Weeks on list: 4 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: 1 Weeks on list: 3 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: * Meet Me at the Lake Carley Fortune Current price: $18.00 A random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects. A May 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 4 The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel Laura Dave Current price: $17.99 Dave's novel is a gripping mystery about a woman who thinks she's found the love of her life--until he disappears. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 10 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: 6 Weeks on list: 37 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: 7 Weeks on list: * When Women Were Dragons: A Novel Kelly Barnhill Current price: $17.00 A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman's place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 2 Discounted Circe Madeline Miller Previous price: $18.99 Current price: $16.99 The masterful follow-up to The Song of Achilles is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: * Daisy Jones & The Six (TV Tie-in Edition): A Novel Taylor Jenkins Reid Current price: $17.00 A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 41 Beach Read Emily Henry Current price: $16.00 Henry's novel about a romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut is a June 2020 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 45 Discounted This Is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone Previous price: $16.99 Current price: $15.99 An enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 2 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: 10 Weeks on list: * The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V. E. Schwab Current price: $19.99 France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever--and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 7 This Time Tomorrow: A Novel Emma Straub Current price: $18.00 With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes and a different kind of love story. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 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: 3 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: 1 Weeks on list: 9 Quietly Hostile: Essays Samantha Irby Current price: $17.00 In her hilarious new essay collection, Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind the glitter and glam. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 2 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: * 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: 5 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: 6 Weeks on list: * The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity David Graeber, David Wengrow Current price: $25.00 The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom and new ways of organizing society. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 8 How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers Current price: $18.00 The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on 25 years of experience from the storytelling experts at The Moth. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 5 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet John Green Current price: $18.00 A deeply moving collection of personal essays by the bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down. Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: 10 Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence Dr. Anna Lembke Current price: $18.00 Dr. Anna Lembke explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain--and what to do about it. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 21 The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America Matt Kracht Current price: $15.95 Perfect for the anti-aviary or bird fanatic with a sense of humor, this snarky illustrated handbook is equal parts profane, funny, and--let's face it--true. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 18 New Release River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile Candice Millard Current price: $18.00 Millard's book tells the harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson Current price: $20.00 Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 15 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: * Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition): Advice from Dear Sugar Cheryl Strayed Current price: $17.00 An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns by the author of Wild--featuring a new preface and six additional columns. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 8 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: * 1984 George Orwell Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: * The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition Anne Frank Current price: $7.99 Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: * Mistborn: The Final Empire (The Mistborn Saga #1) Brandon Sanderson Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: * The Way of Kings: Book One of the Stormlight Archive Brandon Sanderson Current price: $10.99 Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: * Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition George Orwell Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: * Discounted Lord of the Flies William Golding Previous price: $12.00 Current price: $11.00 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Current price: $7.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: * Discounted Slaughterhouse-Five (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) Kurt Vonnegut Previous price: $8.99 Current price: $7.99 Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: * The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle #1) Patrick Rothfuss Current price: $10.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: * Children's Illustrated Bestsellers Browse All See all items Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Classic Seuss) Dr. Seuss Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: * Goodnight Moon Board Book Margaret Wise Brown Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: * Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography Wendy Loggia Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 4 Weather Together (Not Quite Narwhal and Friends) Jessie Sima Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 4 Bluey: The Pool Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $4.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Bluey: The Beach Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $4.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Bluey: Camping Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Current price: $10.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: * Where the Wild Things Are: A Caldecott Award Winner Maurice Sendak Current price: $19.95 Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: * New Release The Digger and the Butterfly (The Digger Series) Joseph Kuefler Current price: $19.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Bluey: The Creek Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $4.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Hot Dog: (Winner of the 2023 Caldecott Medal) Doug Salati Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 13 Dragons Love Tacos Adam Rubin Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: * Woo Hoo! You're Doing Great! Sandra Boynton Current price: $17.99 Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 8 Knight Owl (Caldecott Honor Book) Christopher Denise Current price: $17.99 Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 35 Children's Interest Bestsellers Browse All See all items 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: 1 Weeks on list: 9 From the World of Percy Jackson: The Sun and the Star Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro Current price: $19.99 Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 4 The One and Only Ruby Katherine Applegate Current price: $19.99 Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: 4 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Judy Blume Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 6 Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Classic Seuss) Dr. Seuss Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: * A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Holly Jackson Current price: $10.99 Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: * Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography Wendy Loggia Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 4 Goodnight Moon Board Book Margaret Wise Brown Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: * Weather Together (Not Quite Narwhal and Friends) Jessie Sima Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 4 Surprisingly Sarah (Emmie & Friends) Terri Libenson Current price: $15.99 Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: 3 Bluey: The Beach Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $4.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Bluey: The Pool Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $4.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 Warrior Girl Unearthed Angeline Boulley Current price: $19.99 Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 4 Bluey: Camping Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1 School Trip: A Graphic Novel Jerry Craft Current price: $14.99 Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: 8
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: 2 Weeks on list: 4
Happy Place Emily Henry Current price: $27.00 
Emily Henry's novel about a couple who broke up months ago pretend they're still together for an annual, week-long vacation with their best friends is the #1 Indie Next Pick for May 2023. Rank last week: 1 Weeks on list: 5
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: 3 Weeks on list: 32
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: 4 Weeks on list: *
Yellowface: A Novel 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: 5 Weeks on list: 2
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: 7 Weeks on list: 46
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A novel Tom Hanks Current price: $32.50 From the legendary actor comes a graphic novel about the making of a star-studded, multi-million-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 3
Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Ann Napolitano Current price: $28.00 An exquisite homage to Louisa May Alcott's timeless classic, Little Women, Hello Beautiful is a profoundly moving portrait of what is possible when we choose to love someone not in spite of who they are, but because of it. A March 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 11
The Guest: A Novel Emma Cline Current price: $28.00 Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement. A June 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 2
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: 10 Weeks on list: 23
New Release Rogue Justice: A Thriller (Avery Keene #2) Stacey Abrams Current price: $29.00 Stacey Abrams returns with a riveting and intricately plotted thriller, in which a blackmailed federal judge, a secret court and a brazen murder may lead to an unprecedented national crisis. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
The Postcard Anne Berest Current price: $28.00 Anne Berest's novel is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling. A May 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: 2
New Release The Late Americans: A Novel Brandon Taylor Current price: $28.00 The Booker Prize finalist and widely acclaimed author of Real Life and Filthy Animals returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads. A June 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
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: 15 Weeks on list: 4
Romantic Comedy (Reese's Book Club): A Novel Curtis Sittenfeld Current price: $28.00 In her new novel, Curtis Sittenfeld explores the neurosis-inducing and heart-fluttering wonder of love, while slyly dissecting the social rituals of romance and gender relations in the modern age. An April 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 13 Weeks on list: 8
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: 6
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: 19
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: 3 Weeks on list: 10
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: 5 Weeks on list: 42
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: 4 Weeks on list: *
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: 8 Weeks on list: *
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: 13 Weeks on list: 9
New Release Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs Jamie Loftus Current price: $26.99 Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique--comedian Jamie Loftus takes you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveals what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
King: A Life Jonathan Eig Current price: $35.00 In this landmark biography, Jonathan Eig gives us a Martin Luther King Jr. for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history's greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime. Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 2
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir Maggie Smith Current price: $28.00 The bestselling poet and author of Keep Moving offers a lush and heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 7
Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself Luke Russert Current price: $28.99 For anyone uncertain about the direction of their life or unsure of how to move forward after a loss, Look for Me There is a poignant reflection that offers encouragement to examine our choices, take risks, and discover our truest selves. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 2
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them Timothy Egan Current price: $30.00 Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author Timothy Egan tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 8
New Release On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good Elise Loehnen Current price: $28.00 A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considered "good", revealing how the Seven Deadly Sins still control and distort our lives and illuminating a path toward a more balanced, spiritually complete way to live. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
New Release The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man David Von Drehle Current price: $26.00 One of our nation's most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life in the centenarian next door. A June 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
Stay True: A Memoir Hua Hsu Current price: $26.00 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. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 2
Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Hernan Diaz Current price: $17.00 Diaz's book 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: 2 Weeks on list: 4
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: 1 Weeks on list: 3
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: *
Meet Me at the Lake Carley Fortune Current price: $18.00 A random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects. A May 2023 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 4
The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel Laura Dave Current price: $17.99 Dave's novel is a gripping mystery about a woman who thinks she's found the love of her life--until he disappears. Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: 10
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: 6 Weeks on list: 37
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: 7 Weeks on list: *
When Women Were Dragons: A Novel Kelly Barnhill Current price: $17.00 A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman's place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 2
Discounted Circe Madeline Miller Previous price: $18.99 Current price: $16.99 The masterful follow-up to The Song of Achilles is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. Rank last week: 14 Weeks on list: *
Daisy Jones & The Six (TV Tie-in Edition): A Novel Taylor Jenkins Reid Current price: $17.00 A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 41
Beach Read Emily Henry Current price: $16.00 Henry's novel about a romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut is a June 2020 Indie Next Pick. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 45
Discounted This Is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone Previous price: $16.99 Current price: $15.99 An enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 2
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: 10 Weeks on list: *
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V. E. Schwab Current price: $19.99 France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever--and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 7
This Time Tomorrow: A Novel Emma Straub Current price: $18.00 With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes and a different kind of love story. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
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: 3 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: 1 Weeks on list: 9
Quietly Hostile: Essays Samantha Irby Current price: $17.00 In her hilarious new essay collection, Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind the glitter and glam. Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 2
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: *
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: 5 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: 6 Weeks on list: *
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity David Graeber, David Wengrow Current price: $25.00 The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom and new ways of organizing society. Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: 8
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers Current price: $18.00 The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on 25 years of experience from the storytelling experts at The Moth. Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: 5
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet John Green Current price: $18.00 A deeply moving collection of personal essays by the bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down. Rank last week: 12 Weeks on list: 10
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence Dr. Anna Lembke Current price: $18.00 Dr. Anna Lembke explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain--and what to do about it. Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 21
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America Matt Kracht Current price: $15.95 Perfect for the anti-aviary or bird fanatic with a sense of humor, this snarky illustrated handbook is equal parts profane, funny, and--let's face it--true. Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 18
New Release River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile Candice Millard Current price: $18.00 Millard's book tells the harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson Current price: $20.00 Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today. Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 15
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: *
Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition): Advice from Dear Sugar Cheryl Strayed Current price: $17.00 An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns by the author of Wild--featuring a new preface and six additional columns. Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 8
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition Anne Frank Current price: $7.99 Rank last week: 7 Weeks on list: *
Mistborn: The Final Empire (The Mistborn Saga #1) Brandon Sanderson Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: *
The Way of Kings: Book One of the Stormlight Archive Brandon Sanderson Current price: $10.99 Rank last week: 3 Weeks on list: *
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition George Orwell Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: *
Discounted Lord of the Flies William Golding Previous price: $12.00 Current price: $11.00 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: *
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Current price: $7.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: *
Discounted Slaughterhouse-Five (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) Kurt Vonnegut Previous price: $8.99 Current price: $7.99 Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: *
The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle #1) Patrick Rothfuss Current price: $10.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: *
Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Classic Seuss) Dr. Seuss Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: *
Goodnight Moon Board Book Margaret Wise Brown Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: *
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Bluey: The Pool Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $4.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
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Where the Wild Things Are: A Caldecott Award Winner Maurice Sendak Current price: $19.95 Rank last week: 9 Weeks on list: *
New Release The Digger and the Butterfly (The Digger Series) Joseph Kuefler Current price: $19.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
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Hot Dog: (Winner of the 2023 Caldecott Medal) Doug Salati Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: 13
Knight Owl (Caldecott Honor Book) Christopher Denise Current price: $17.99 Rank last week: 10 Weeks on list: 35
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: 1 Weeks on list: 9
From the World of Percy Jackson: The Sun and the Star Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro Current price: $19.99 Rank last week: 2 Weeks on list: 4
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Judy Blume Current price: $9.99 Rank last week: 4 Weeks on list: 6
Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Classic Seuss) Dr. Seuss Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 5 Weeks on list: *
Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography Wendy Loggia Current price: $5.99 Rank last week: 6 Weeks on list: 4
Goodnight Moon Board Book Margaret Wise Brown Current price: $8.99 Rank last week: 8 Weeks on list: *
Weather Together (Not Quite Narwhal and Friends) Jessie Sima Current price: $18.99 Rank last week: 11 Weeks on list: 4
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Bluey: The Beach Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $4.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
Bluey: The Pool Penguin Young Readers Licenses Current price: $4.99 Rank last week: NEW Weeks on list: 1
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