NEIBA Bestseller List
Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of NEIBA and IndieBound.

For the week ending
Sunday, April 5th, 2026
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Keeper
Tana French, Viking, $32, 9780593493465
2. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
3. Kin
Tayari Jones, Knopf, $32, 9780525659181
4. Upward Bound
Woody Brown, Hogarth, $28, 9780593979976
5. The Night We Met (Indie Exclusive Edition)
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $30, 9781538780688
6. The News from Dublin: Stories
Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $29, 9781476785141
7. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
8. Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622
9. Dog Show: Poems
Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.), Random House, $20, 9780593979419
10. This Is Not About Us: Fiction
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593447840
11. More Than Enough
Anna Quindlen, Random House, $29, 9780593734605
12. Lady Tremaine
Rachel Hochhauser, St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250396341
13. Daughter of Egypt
Marie Benedict, St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250280732
14. Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman, Tor Nightfire, $29.99, 9781250439208
15. Brawler: Stories
Lauren Groff, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593418420
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318
2. A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $32, 9781984881991
3. The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Alice Hoffman (Ed.), Scribner, $22, 9781668209028
4. The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness
Arthur C. Brooks, Portfolio, $30, 9780593545423
5. How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
Jenny Lawson, Penguin Life, $29, 9780593833216
6. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
7. When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
Suzanne Simard, Knopf, $30, 9780593318683
8. We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
Norah O'Donnell, Kate Andersen Brower, Ballantine Books, $35, 9780593727027
9. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
10. Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!
Liza Minnelli, Grand Central Publishing, $36, 9781538773666
11. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
12. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
13. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
14. Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird
Keith O'Brien, Atria Books, $30, 9781668211700
15. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Project Hail Mary (Movie Tie-In)
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22, 9798217299461
2. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
3. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
4. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
5. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254
6. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
7. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
8. Fever Beach
Carl Hiaasen, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $19, 9780593315477
9. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
10. Dear Debbie
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464249624
11. We Do Not Part
Han Kang, Hogarth, $17, 9780593595466
12. Heartwood
Amity Gaige, Simon & Schuster, $19, 9781668063613
13. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
14. This Is Happiness
Niall Williams, Bloomsbury Publishing, $18.99, 9781635576313
15. Isola
Allegra Goodman, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $19, 9780593730102
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21, 9780593689004
2. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $22, 9780385348768
3. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
4. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $16.95, 9798888904510
5. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
Manchán Magan, Chelsea Green, $19.95, 9781645023760
6. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko, Scribner, $22, 9781501183065
7. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
8. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
9. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
10. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $20, 9780735213623
11. Plant This, Not That: Over 200 Native Plant Swaps for a More Sustainable, Pollinator-Friendly Garden
Elise Howard, Workman Publishing Company, $22.99, 9781523525911
12. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
13. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
14. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431
15. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
3. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
4. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
5. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
6. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
7. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
8. Macbeth
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $6.99, 9780743477109
9. Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $10, 9780553293357
10. Warbreaker
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765360038
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. It's My Bird-Day!
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454999621
2. Good Night, Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $10.99, 9780358229278
3. Chicka Chicka Peep Peep
Julien Chung, Beach Lane Books, $19.99, 9781665990646
4. Richard Scarry's Easter Cars and Trucks
Richard Scarry, Random House Books for Young Readers, $4.99, 9798217115921
5. Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $10.99, 9780140564341
6. Jamberry
Bruce Degen, HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780694006519
7. The Future Book
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9798217033171
8. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
9. Goldfinches
Mary Oliver, Melissa Sweet (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593692417
10. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Unsettling Salad! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961110
2. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
3. The Faraway Inn
Sarah Beth Durst, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217024308
4. The Unlikely Tale of Chase and Finnegan
Jasmine Warga, Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250387189
5. The Lions' Run
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250392817
6. Bunny and Clyde
Megan McDonald, Scott Nash (Illus.), Candlewick, $6.99, 9781536238198
7. A Blood Moon (Snowlands #1)
Morr Meroz, Collin Fogel (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546171737
8. We're a Bad Idea, Right?
K. L. Walther, Delacorte Romance, $14.99, 9780593904794
9. War Games
Alan Gratz, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338736106
10. Scholastic Year in Sports 2026
James Buckley, Scholastic, $14.99, 9798225005030
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Ape Escape (FunJungle)
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781665986779
2. The Hybrid Prince (Wings of Fire, Book 16)
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic Press, $19.99, 9781546129547
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419782695
4. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
5. Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #9)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001265
6. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion, $10.99, 9781368051477
7. Investigators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Sew Much Trouble
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250359469
8. Big Nate: Code Red!
Lincoln Peirce, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, 9798881602420
9. I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 (I Survived Graphic Novel #13)
Lauren Tarshis, Cassie Anderson (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546137719
10. Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy)
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665954891