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Indiebestsellers Indie Bestsellers Week of 12.16.20 HardcoverFICTION NONFICTION 1. The Vanishing Half 1. A Promised Land Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27 Barack Obama, Crown, $45 2. Ready Player Two 2. Caste Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32 Ernest Cline, Ballantine, $28.99 3. Untamed 3. Hamnet Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28 Maggie O’Farrell, Knopf, $26.95 4. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the 4. The Searcher Horse Tana French, Viking, $27 Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99 5. Anxious People 5. The Splendid and the Vile Erik Larson, Crown, $32 Fredrik Backman, Atria, $28 ★ 6. Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious 6. The Midnight Library Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of Matt Haig, Viking, $26 a Brazen Crook in the White House 7. A Time for Mercy Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz, Crown, $28 John Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95 7. Modern Comfort Food Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35 8. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V.E. Schwab, Tor, $26.99 8. The Best of Me David Sedaris, Little, Brown, $30 9. Perestroika in Paris 9. Greenlights Jane Smiley, Knopf, $26.95 Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $30 10. Mexican Gothic 10. Is This Anything? Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $27 Jerry Seinfeld, S&S, $35 11. Transcendent Kingdom 11. Wintering Katherine May, Riverhead Books, $24 Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $27.95 12. What It’s Like to Be a Bird 12. The Cold Millions David Allen Sibley, Knopf, $35 Jess Walter, Harper, $28.99 13. Dolly Parton, Songteller 13. Where the Crawdads Sing Dolly Parton, Robert K. Oermann, Chronicle Delia Owens, Putnam, $26 Books, $50 14. Becoming 14. Deacon King Kong Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.50 James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28 15. The 99% Invisible City 15. The Evening and the Morning Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt, Houghton Mifflin Ken Follett, Viking, $36 Harcourt, $30 Other Indie Favorites The Thirty Names of Night: A Novel, by A Certain Hunger: A Novel, by Chelsea G. Zeyn Joukhadar (Atria Books, $27) “An affecting, Summers (The Unnamed Press, $26) “A surprising multigenerational coming-of-age story about a young Syrian novel that will lure you in with its delicious writing and leave you American artist’s discovery of self and the truth behind his hungry (in more ways than one). Food critic Dorothy Daniels wants mother’s mysterious passing. Featuring alternating perspectives good food and good sex, and she will go to whatever lengths she that weave the past into the present, this novel embodies the needs in order to get them. At once a critique of the food industry epistolary not just in form and address, but in the way it reads and a criminal’s account, A Certain Hunger is a stunning feminist like a love letter to New York City, especially the immigrant, page-turner. With its devious protagonist and delectable prose, working-class, and LGBTQ underground of New York. A book you will devour this novel.” —Marika McCoola, Porter with a heartbeat, despite all its ghosts.” —Serena Morales, Square Books, Cambridge, MA Books Are Magic, Brooklyn, NY Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across America. Copyright American Booksellers Association. All rights reserved. = Debut Indie Bestsellers .org Week of 12.16.20 PaperbackFICTION NONFICTION 1. Shuggie Bain 1. Braiding Sweetgrass Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $17 Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18 2. The Overstory 2. My Own Words Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18 3. Home Body 3. The Truths We Hold Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $16.99 Kamala Harris, Penguin, $18 4. Circe 4. What Unites Us Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99 Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner, Algonquin Books, $16.95 5. Devotions Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20 5. Born a Crime Trevor Noah, One World, $18 6. Interior Chinatown Charles Yu, Vintage, $16 6. The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $17.95 7. The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $18 7. Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99 8. The Queen’s Gambit 8. The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2021 Walter Tevis, Vintage, $16.95 Old Farmer’s Almanac, $8.95 9. This Tender Land 9. The Color of Law William Kent Krueger, Atria, $17 Richard Rothstein, Liveright, $17.95 10. The Best American Short Stories 10. Just Mercy 2020 Bryan Stevenson, One World, $17 Curtis Sittenfeld, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, ★ 11. The World Almanac and Book of Facts $16.99 2021 11. A Gentleman in Moscow Sarah Janssen (Ed.), World Almanac, $15.99 Amor Towles, Penguin, $17 12. Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth 12. Homegoing of Humankind (Vol. 1) Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16.95 Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $25.99 13. The Song of Achilles 13. Wow, No Thank You. Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99 Samantha Irby, Vintage, $15.95 14. The Nickel Boys 14. White Fragility Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $15.95 Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16 15. Normal People 15. Conversations with RBG Sally Rooney, Hogarth, $17 Jeffrey Rosen, Picador, $18 MASS MARKET 1. Dune Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99 Another Indie Favorite 2. 1984 George Orwell, Signet, $9.99 How to Fail at Flirting: A Novel, by Denise 3. The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $9.99 Williams (Berkley, $16) “A sweet romance about a 4. The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99 professor who decides to take a chance when she finds herself 5. Good Omens Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99 out at a bar by herself seated next to an attractive man in town 6. Dune Messiah Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99 on business. Naya never would have imagined that their one- 7. The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcom X, Ballantine, $7.99 night stand would turn into a week-long fling with the potential 8. Animal Farm George Orwell, Signet, $9.99 for even more. And because of her toxic past relationships, she 9. Still Life Louise Penny, St. Martin's, $7.99 is hesitant to trust Jake. I loved reading about a professor as a 10. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams, Del romance leading lady!” —Kate Storhoff, Bookmarks, Rey, $7.99 Winston-Salem, NC Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across America. Copyright American Booksellers Association. All rights reserved. = Debut Indie Bestsellers Week of 12.16.20 Children’sEARLY & MIDDLE GRADE READERS YOUNG ADULT 1. Cat Kid Comic Club 1. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99 Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99 2. The Ickabog J K. Rowling, Scholastic, $26.99 3. Skunk and Badger Amy Timberlake, Jon 2. The Cousins Klassen (Illus.), Algonquin Young Readers, $18.95 Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $19.99 4. Class Act Jerry Craft, Quill Tree Books, $12.99 3. One of Us Is Lying Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $17.99 5. New Kid Jerry Craft, Harper, $12.99 4. The Hate U Give 6. The Silver Arrow Lev Grossman, Little, Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $18.99 Brown Books for Young Readers, $16.99 5. The Black Friend: On Being a Better 7. The One and Only Bob Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $18.99 White Person Frederick Joseph, Candlewick, $17.99 8. When Stars Are Scattered Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, Dial Books, 6. Legendborn Tracy Deonn, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $18.99 $12.99 7. We Were Liars 9. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly E. Lockhart, Ember, $10.99 Adventure Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $14.99 8. The Book Thief Markus Zusak, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 10. The One and Only Ivan $14.99 Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $8.99 9. The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo, Quill Tree Books, $12.99 11. Twins Varian Johnson, Shannon Wright (Illus.), Graphix, 10. The Left-Handed Booksellers of $12.99 London Garth Nix, Katherine Tegen Books, $19.99 12. This Is Your Time Ruby Bridges, Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 11. Clap When You Land $15.99 Elizabeth Acevedo, Quill Tree Books, $18.99 13. The Complete Cookbook for Young 12. Dear Justyce Nic Stone, Crown Books for Young Readers, $18.99 Chefs America’s Test Kitchen Kids, Sourcebooks Explore, 13. Punching the Air $19.99 Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam, Balzer + Bray, $19.99 14. Lightfall: The Girl & the Galdurian 14. The Giver Tim Probert, HarperAlley, $12.99 Lois Lowry, HMH Books for Young Readers, $9.99 15. Guts 15. Dragon Hoops Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99 Gene Luen Yang, First Second, $24.99 Indies Introduce For Ages 9 to 12 For Teen Readers Fantastic Tales of Nothing, by Alejandra Green, The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre, by Robin Fanny Rodriguez (Katherine Tegen Books, Talley (HarperTeen, $17.99) “Any theater nerd, especially hardcover, $22.99; paperback, $12.99) “Despite those who enjoyed the epic highs and lows of high school theater, its name, Nothing is a land filled with magic, ancient legends, will gobble up this book and enjoy every second. Everything rang so shapeshifters, and one not-so-ordinary human named Nathan who is about to embark on a quest to save everything (err…Nothing). true and felt incredibly real! I adored every character—and found Alejandra Green and Fanny Rodriguez bring their respective myself listening to the Les Mis soundtrack while reading!” —Abby animation and video game design experience to this middle-grade Bennsky, Old Town Books, Alexandria, VA fantasy filled with humor, mystery, adventure, and plenty of action! This dynamic start to a new graphic novel series will appeal to fans of the Amulet and Estranged book series.” —Kinsey Forman, High Five Books, Florence, MA Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across America.
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