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

For the week ending
Sunday, February 1st, 2026
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
2. Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622
3. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
4. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
5. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
6. Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723739
7. Departure(s)
Julian Barnes, Knopf, $27, 9780593804506
8. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
9. The First Time I Saw Him
Laura Dave, Scribner, $29, 9781668002964
10. Anatomy of an Alibi
Ashley Elston, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593834459
11. My Husband's Wife
Alice Feeney, Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, $28.99, 9781250337818
12. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
13. Skylark
Paula McLain, Atria Books, $30, 9781668028155
14. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
15. Buckeye
Patrick Ryan, Random House, $30, 9780593595039
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318
2. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
3. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
4. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
5. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
6. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
7. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781982181314
8. Football
Chuck Klosterman, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593490648
9. 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
10. Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose
Jennifer Breheny Wallace, Portfolio, $30, 9780593850596
11. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
12. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
13. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411
14. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
15. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
2. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
3. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
4. Dear Debbie
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464249624
5. Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637
6. Heartwood
Amity Gaige, Simon & Schuster, $19, 9781668063613
7. The Long Game
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644
8. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
9. Game Changer
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534620
10. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
11. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
12. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
13. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
14. Isola
Allegra Goodman, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $19, 9780593730102
15. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
2. The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781961793682
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
4. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
6. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
7. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Adam Higginbotham, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $22, 9781982176624
8. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $20, 9780735213623
9. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
10. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470
11. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19, 9781250397676
12. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Morgan Housel, Harriman House, $19.99, 9780857197689
13. Night
Elie Wiesel, FSG, $13, 9780374500016
14. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
15. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593230077
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
2. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
3. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
4. Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $6.99, 9780743477123
5. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
6. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
7. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
8. Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $10, 9780553293357
9. Elantris
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765350374
10. The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345325815
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
2. Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $10.99, 9780140564341
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
4. Smooches!
Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780316574686
5. For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977
6. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
7. Chicka Chicka I Love You
Bill Martin Jr, John Archambault, Julien Chung (Illus.), Little Simon, $9.99, 9781665980876
8. Little Blue Truck's Valentine
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780358272441
9. Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.), Random House Studio, $18.99, 9780593810309
10. Fireworks
Matthew Burgess, Cátia Chien (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063216723
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World
Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price, Cynthia Yuan Cheng (Illus.), Rocky Pond Books, $14.99, 9798217111916
2. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268
3. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
4. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
5. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
6. The Trouble with Heroes
Kate Messner, Bloomsbury Children's Books, $17.99, 9781547616398
7. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
8. Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë, Anna Bond (Illus.), Puffin Books, $19, 9798217043408
9. Scholastic Year in Sports 2026
James Buckley, Scholastic, $14.99, 9798225005030
10. Alice with a Why
Anna James, Matthew Land (Illus.), Flamingo Books, $18.99, 9780593691991
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #9)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001265
2. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419782695
4. Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001296
5. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
6. Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy)
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665954891
7. Sweet Valley Twins: Three's a Crowd: (A Graphic Novel) (Sweet Valley Twins Graphic Novels #7)
Francine Pascal, Claudia Aguirre (Illus.), Random House Graphic, $14.99, 9780593807286
8. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $12.99, 9781524714758
9. InvestiGators: Braver and Boulder
John Patrick Green, First Second, $12.99, 9781250220066
10. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741032