NEIBA Bestseller List

For the week ending
Sunday, August 23rd, 2026  

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HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593804216
2. Whistler
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30.00, 9780063511637
3. The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812
4. Under the Falls
Richard Russo, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593805107
5. Land
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593320648
6. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28.00, 9780593798430
7. The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746
8. Country People
Daniel Mason, Random House, $30.00, 9798217197453
9. Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy #3)
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $30.00, 9780385550505
10. The Amateur: A Novel
Chris Bohjalian, Doubleday, $33.00, 9780385551298
11. John of John 
Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802167194
12. The Shampoo Effect
Jenny Jackson, Pamela Dorman Books, $30.00, 9798217059959
13. Villa Coco
Andrew Sean Greer, Doubleday, $30.00, 9780385551977
14. The Unknown
Riley Sager, Dutton, $32.00, 9798217044092
15. Mad Mabel
Sally Hepworth, St. Martin's Press, $29.00, 9781250284549

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster, $34.00, 9781668067246
2. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30.00, 9780593733318
3. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
Gil Durán, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, $30.00, 9781668221402
4. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385548533
5. The Land and Its People: Essays
David Sedaris, Little, Brown and Company, $30.00, 9780316264839
6. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35.00, 9781324094647
7. The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Alice Hoffman (Ed.), Scribner, $22.00, 9781668209028
8. Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About: A Memoir
Isabel Klee, William Morrow, $28.00, 9780063451070
9. What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast
Caroline Chambers, Union Square & Co., $35.00, 9781454963264
10. The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
Eric Jay Dolin, Liveright, $27.99, 9781324096320
11. Famesick: A Memoir
Lena Dunham, Random House, $32.00, 9780593129326
12. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, W. W. Norton & Company, $35.00, 9781324006848
13. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13.00, 9781538778005
14. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28.00, 9780593804148
15. This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
Craig Fehrman, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35.00, 9781982174248

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781668236512
2. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Holt Paperbacks, $18.99, 9781250899552
3. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20.00, 9780593820254
4. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250
5. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19.00, 9780593418925
6. Project Hail Mary 
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22.00, 9798217299461
7. The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593873465
8. Dolly All the Time
Annabel Monaghan, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $20.00, 9780593853979
9. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
10. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781982112837
11. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593158739
12. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2)
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $21.00, 9780593820278
13. Wreck: A Novel
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $17.99, 9780063453920
14. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
15. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $19.99, 9780316556323

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $20.00, 9780593854297
2. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21.00, 9780593689004
3. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984898456
4. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21.00, 9780307742490
5. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life
Helen Whybrow, Milkweed Editions, $20.00, 9781571311634
6. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly  
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226
7. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $22.00, 9780385348768
8. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $23.00, 9780307279286
9. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060959470
10. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22.00, 9781571313560
11. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324130734
12. Communion: The Female Search for Love
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060938291
13. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Books, $20.00, 9780593657522
14. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14.00, 9780804190114
15. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott, Vintage, $20.00, 9780385480017

MASS MARKET

1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935
2. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $13.00, 9780399501487
3. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451526342
4. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
5. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
6. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11.00, 9780553283686
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
8. Murder on Cape Cod 
Maddie Day, Kensington, $8.99, 9781496722881
9. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553577129
10. Rand McNally Folded Map: Eastern United States
Rand McNally, Rand McNally, $9.99, 9780528028502

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

1. Little Blue Truck Lost and Found
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063436121
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
3. Jamberry
Bruce Degen, HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780694006519
4. Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $10.99, 9780140501698
5. Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $10.99, 9780140564341
6. Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $10.99, 9780358451228
7. This Book Is Seriously Silly! (A Narwhal and Jelly Picture Book #2)
Ben Clanton, Tundra Books, $19.99, 9781774886588
8. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
9. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
10. Don't Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673

CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

1. Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy, Part One of Three
Erin Hunter, Gibson Twist, Sammy Savos (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063450882
2. Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9781546171607
3. InvestiGators: Weather or Not
John Patrick Green, First Second, $12.99, 9781250357915
4. Penelope Rex vs. the New Kid (A Penelope Rex Book)
Ryan T. Higgins, Disney Hyperion, $19.99, 9781368108706
5. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion, $10.99, 9781368051477
6. Heartstopper #6: A Graphic Novel
Alice Oseman, Graphix, $19.99, 9781546102441
7. Spaced Out the Graphic Novel (Moon Base Alpha the Graphic Novel)
Stuart Gibbs, Ward Jenkins (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665934848
8. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
9. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877
10. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $12.99, 9781524714758

EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE

1. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2: From the Creator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (The Awesome Friendly Kid Series)
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419788109
2. The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel 
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338762488
3. The Baby-sitters Club Fan Edition: Baby-sitter Summer
Ann M. Martin, et al., Scholastic Inc., $14.99, 9781546171379
4. Odder: The Novel
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250423429
5. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel 
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
6. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324
7. Sleepless
Gordon Korman, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781546126119
8. Wombat Waiting
Katherine Applegate, Storytide, $19.99, 9780063221178
9. The Trouble with Heroes
Kate Messner, Bloomsbury Children's Books, $10.99, 9781547619429
10. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891

YOUNG ADULT

1. The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel
Gareth Hinds, Candlewick, $19.99, 9780763642686
2. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
3. Nothing Like the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665947145
4. The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
5. The Summer of Second Chances (Standard Edition)
K.L. Walther, Sourcebooks Fire, $14.99, 9781464289460
6. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition)
Stephen Chbosky, Simon Pulse, $15.99, 9781665982412
8. Betting on You
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665921244
9. The Gilded Blade (The Grandest Game #3)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780316593083
10. Barbie: Dreamscape
Alex Aster, Mattel, $22.99, 9781640366008